I should mention that I decided to go to graduate school instead of going to medical school. I never expected to be a university professor, because at that time there were not any women professors. I expected to get my degree and quietly conduct research in a laboratory. I am aware that you are working on research that helps in both the prognosis and diagnosis of autoimmune diseases, such as Lupus. Our work is unusual because we took clinical material from physicians and used that information as fundamental research.
Systemic diseases affect organs.
Serendipitous things sometimes happen in science. I was interested in how problems get from genes to RNA to proteins, when I came across an article in a British journal about patients with auto antibodies. Auto antibodies are antibodies directed against structures in our own body arising as part of the normal immune response to various infections. An assistant at Yale was able to get samples of blood with auto antibodies present. SnRNPs are like proofreading bubbles that find errors and fix them.