Luck habit #26 of 33
Know the field well enough to see the odd result
Real people who got lucky this way. Each story links to where we read it, so you can check it yourself.
- Jamie McGowan: A pond protist that breaks the genetic code
He was only testing a sequencing method, but he knew the genetic code well enough to notice two stop codons doing something no other known organism does.
Source: ScienceDaily, 8 Oct 2026