The eukaryotic ribosome unveils its structure

One year after the Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded for the discovery of the bacterial ribosome's atomic structure, French researchers from the Institut de Genetique et de Biologie Moleculaire et Cellulaire have determined the first structure of a eukaryotic ribosome, that of yeast. This work, published on 26 November 2010 in the journal Science, puts an end to the frantic international race to discover the structure of this imposing cellular machinery.

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