The document discusses RNA splicing and the spliceosome. It notes that Phillip Allen Sharp co-discovered RNA splicing and won the 1993 Nobel Prize for discovering that eukaryotic genes contain introns that are removed from messenger RNA through splicing. It then provides details about the spliceosome, a large molecular machine that helps remove introns. The spliceosome is made up of small nuclear ribonucleoproteins (snRNPs) including U1, U2, U4, U5 and U6, which act in complexes E, A, B and C during the splicing process.