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48. Well-crafted logic loop in Abstract by Nobel Laureates (mini-series: reading-29)

March 20, 2025 • Dr. Synaptologica • Episode 48

I can visualize two well-crafted loops of logic, in the Abstract of a paper written by the Nobel Prize Laureates. Can you?

We will talk about one of them in today’s episode. Such a loop, together with a linear progression, highlights the authors’ clear and logical thought process.

We are reading the paper written by the Laureates, Dr. Katalin Karikó & Dr. Drew Weissman, that led to the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2023. We call it the Milestone Article 1. Here are two sets of links related to the paper.

Milestone Article 1:

“Suppression of RNA recognition by Toll-like receptors: the impact of nucleoside modification and the evolutionary origin of RNA” by Karikó, Buckstein, Ni & Weissman. Immunity, 23(2): 165-75, 2005.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.immuni.2005.06.008
PDF: https://www.cell.com/immunity/pdf/S1074-7613(05)00211-6.pdf
PubMed: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16111635/

See the pull-down menu “Article Info” near the top of the article webpage (Use the DOI above to reach it).
Check the “User License” section which lists the “Elsevier user license”:
--- http://www.elsevier.com/open-access/userlicense/1.0/
--- https://www.elsevier.com/about/policies-and-standards/open-access-licenses/elsevier-user

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