When elephants are not like E. coli:

“That time was the beginning of cloning of human genes. She (Shirley Tilghman) cloned the beta globin gene. People went to listen to her seminar (at the NIH) and she presented this amazing discovery that when looking at the electron microscope of the hybridization of the globin message and the gene that they had cloned, there was a piece of the gene that was not in the message.”

From the #EMBOPodcast with Roberto di Lauro, who was a group leader at the EMBL, a professor at the University of Naples Federico II, served as President of the Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, and the scientific attaché to the Italian Embassy in London.
#EMBOPodcast

https://www.embo.org/podcasts/we-should-know-more-this-is-our-main-job/