Congratulations to PhD students John Noto and Casey Schmidt, and faculty member Greg Matera for their publication in RNA Biology entitled “Engineering and expressing circular RNAs via tRNA splicing.” In this paper, they focus on the biogenesis of tRNA intronic circular RNAs (tricRNAs) in archaea and animals, and detail their use as research tools for orthogonal, directed circRNA expression in vivo. [Noto JJ, Schmidt CA, Matera AG.RNA Biol. 2017 Apr 12:0. doi:10.1080/15476286.2017.1317911. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 284012213]