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56. How many paragraphs in Introduction?

June 29, 2025 • Episode 56

In combination with the last episode, we will talk about an introduction to how to read the Introduction section. With these two episodes, we will be ready to analyze the content details, from the next episode.

We are reading the paper written by Dr. Katalin Karikó & Dr. Drew Weissman, that led to the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2023. We call it the Milestone Article 1. Here are two sets of links related to the paper.

Milestone Article 1:

- “Suppression of RNA recognition by Toll-like receptors: the impact of nucleoside modification and the evolutionary origin of RNA” by Karikó, Buckstein, Ni & Weissman. Immunity, 23(2): 165-75, 2005.

- HTML: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.immuni.2005.06.008

- PDF: https://www.cell.com/immunity/pdf/S1074-7613(05)00211-6.pdf

- PubMed: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16111635/

- See the pull-down menu “Article Info” near the top of the article webpage (Use the DOI above to reach it).

- Check the “User License” section which lists the “Elsevier user license”:

--- http://www.elsevier.com/open-access/userlicense/1.0/

--- https://www.elsevier.com/about/policies-and-standards/open-access-licenses/elsevier-user

This episode = mini-series: reading-36.

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