> "When Philip Bevilacqua decided to work out the shapes of all the RNA molecules in a living plant cell, he faced two problems. First, he had not studied plant

> "When Philip Bevilacqua decided to work out the shapes of all the RNA molecules in a living plant cell, he faced two problems. First, he had not studied plant biology since high school." This. I think this is increasingly how biology is going to be done. As new methodologies like PARS pop-up faster, and new domains of study like RNA structure remain unaddressed, there is open opportunity for teams of mechanical+software savvy people to make contributions at the bleeding edge.