Toward Synthetic Life: Scientists Create Ribosomes -- Cell Protein Machinery
Monday, March 9, 2009 - 12:35
in Biology & Nature
Scientists have cleared a key hurdle in the creation of synthetic life, assembling a cell's critical protein-making machinery -- the ribosome -- in an advance with both practical, industrial applications and that advances the basic understanding of life's workings.
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