Das erste moderne Lehrbuch der RNA-Biologie auf fortgeschrittenem Niveau fängt die Faszination dieser aufstrebenden Disziplin ein. Alle Aspekte von Ribozymen über RNA-Interferenz bis zur RNomik werden ausführlich diskutiert und in den geeigneten Kontext gestellt.

Gunter Meister is the head of the department of biochemistry I of the University of Regensburg, Germany. He obtained his PhD degree from the University of Munich and the Max-Planck-Institute of Biochemistry, working on RNA-protein complexes. Thereafter, he joined the group of Tom Tuschl at the Rockefeller University in New York (USA), where he worked on RNA interference and small non-coding RNAs. After his postdoctoral time in New York, he went back to the Max-Planck-Institute of Biochemistry as independent group leader and head of the "RNA Biology" group. Gunter Meister has received an EMBO long-term fellowship as well as an Emmy Noether fellowship from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. He was awarded the Max-Planck junior research award as well as the research award of the Engelhorn foundation.