He then moved to Cambridge (under Mike Ashburner), to Heidelberg (Ekke Bautz) before joining the newly founded Biotech company Transgene SA under Jean-Pierre Lecocq, Pierre Chambon, and Philippe Kourilsky.
France was declared free of rabies in 2002, but success in North America has been less dramatic owing to the prevalence of several species capable of transmitting rabies[5] The most highly cited paper regards a tool for isolating coding sequences, published in 1985 in the Journal of Molecular Biology.
[10] A contrasting viewpoint is that deep-sea hydrothermal vents, among other scenarios, may have led to the emergence of life (abiogenesis).
In addition, the fast early tides invoked may not have been quite so rapid,[11] and it is possible that only 2-3% of the Earth's crust may have been exposed above the sea until late in terrestrial evolution [4]; although mechanistically sound, the tidal chain reaction theory remains speculative.
[14] Darlix and Lathe propose that retroelements constitute the replicative component of the transmissible spongiform encephalopathies.