The end of the road

Abstract

After some 60 years in research, a few months before my final retirement (there were a few temporary ones), the time has come to reminisce.

Keywords: :

• globin
• interferon
• prions
• Qbeta replicase
• quasispecies
• reverse genetics
• Rous Sarcoma virus
• site-directed mutation

Acknowledgments

I thank the Jane Coffin Child Fund, the Swiss National Fund, the Department of Education of the Kanton of Zürich, the Medical Research Council, The Scripps Research Institute, the National Institutes of Health and the Alafi Family Foundation for generous support over the decades. I thank Donny Strosberg for critical reading of the manuscript.