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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.
The roots of RNA-mediated silencing, however, can be traced back 15 years, when a handful of botanical labs stumbled across strange cases of gene silencing in transgenic plants.
Gore stumbled over O'Brien's immigration question by trying to argue that refugees from Communist countries should be treated differently.
Here the multimillionaires Bradley and Bush may have stumbled upon something rather clever: a kind of rich candidate's class warfare.
In his speech, though, Bush himself seems to have stumbled over that distinction.