Basic cellular research is a trail. One follows one's nose toward what might be new understanding. When that leads to a need to employ unfamiliar or novel technology, it's both exciting and very worthwhile to form collaborations. Our early studies of chaperonins support such a philosophy, as detailed in the two stories that follow, written in deep appreciation of recognition by the E.B. Wilson Medal of the American Society for Cell Biology.
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