This discovery not only was a major advance for plant biology with important potential implications for agriculture but also might lead to new treatments of human cancers, because TIR1 is similar to human ubiquitin ligases that are involved in cancer.
Most importantly, these kinds of discoveries are rewarding not only because they create a more accurate history, but also because they enable us to chart a better future.
Archaeologists and officials hurried to the site, not only because of the magnitude of the discovery but because construction work could not be interrupted and because the timber, no longer safe in its cocoon of ooze, began deteriorating as soon as it was exposed to air.
This is not only because of the outsized influence the discovery of Dylan had on him as a young musician in the culturally isolated Soviet Union; it also owes something to Grebenshikov's outsized popularity in that country.
The accidental discovery of its skull by two young men walking along the Columbia River caused a sensation, not only because of its age but also because some features did not resemble those of modern American Indians, as would have been expected then.
Berlin, however, seems to be stuck in the past, and not only because the event somewhat coasts on its bygone reputation as a festival of discovery.
The possibility that this could be a chance finding is low, not only because the stringency was set at p < 0.05, but also because the false discovery rate was set to <0.1.
Because if the Governors Island experiment works, people will start going there not only because a certain event caught their attention, but also because the place develops a reputation for interesting discoveries.
"Not only because of that, anyway.
