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The road to clinical success is littered with great ideas that have come a cropper along the way, including two other RNA-based therapies, antisense and ribozymes, both of which showed promise at the bench but have largely stumbled before reaching the bedside.
A graduate student at the University of Illinois at Springfield stumbled upon two teleplays by the Nobel Prize-winning author--Faulkner's only known forays into the genre--while researching his master's thesis, Yoknapatawpha TV , at a Duke University archive.
Here the multimillionaires Bradley and Bush may have stumbled upon something rather clever: a kind of rich candidate's class warfare.
The bargains or at least more authentic and tasteful products are to be found far from these main tourist centers, in artisans’ workshops on the Giudecca, in the Dorsoduro behind the Zattere — to be hunted down or stumbled upon by chance.
Cornell stumbled onto the art world of New York surrealism--a complex of artists, dealers, collectors, and critics and, above all, a body of thought about art--which enabled him to be an artist, and even an admired one.