Confident the lab had something unprecedented, Rome mailed the work to one of the top basic research journals, Cell. Its famously opinionated editor, Benjamin Lewin, rejected the submission without sending the manuscript out for review. The journal would be happy to reconsider, he added, once the lab identified a function for vaults. Crushed, the team pivoted to a more specialized cell biology journal, and the paper was quickly published.
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