TY - JOUR AU1 - Fredholm, Bertil B. AB - Purinergic Signalling https://doi.org/10.1007/s11302-022-09904-z LE T TER Bertil B. Fredholm © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature B.V. 2022 Maria Teresa Miras Portugal was a remarkable part of the The eighteenth-century writer and politician Horace Wal- group of scientists interested in the actions of nucleosides pole loved to visit Italy. Once he found a hitherto unknown and nucleotides, a research area sometimes a bit inadvert- painting from the renaissance painter Vasari. (He is now ently called purinergic signaling. (There were a number less known for his paintings than for his long descriptions of pyrimidines in her research). This group has not lacked of the lives and works of Italian painters). He wrote home strong personalities. Nevertheless, she stood out. Her loss to a friend and described his lucky find with the help of an is felt deeply by many of us. Therefore, I agreed somewhat oriental story he had dug up from somewhere. It describes inadvisably to contribute to this issue in her memory. I three princes from Serendip (an old name for what is now have told the editors that I no longer have a research group Sri Lanka) who were “always making discoveries, by acci- and can therefore TI - Some reflections after a long life in science JF - Purinergic Signalling DO - 10.1007/s11302-022-09904-z DA - 2024-04-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/some-reflections-after-a-long-life-in-science-3pavx2R0oH SP - 207 EP - 208 VL - 20 IS - 2 DP - DeepDyve ER -