55. Does the Introduction section have subheadings?

Foundational Skills in Life Sciences

Sub-sections and subheadings will be helpful.

The Methods and the Results sections of life-science papers are divided into sub-sections. And the sub-sections will have subheadings, i.e., the titles that serve as signposts of the sub-sections.

How about the Introduction section? What would this finding mean to us, the readers?

We will talk about them by scanning the Introduction of a 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/

Copyright of the paper (as of March, 2025):

- 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

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