Unraveling the Ribosome: Chemistry Nobel Awarded to Modelers of Living Cells' Protein-Maker
Wednesday, October 7, 2009 - 07:21
in Biology & Nature
The 2009 Nobel Prize in chemistry will be split among three researchers who, over the course of the past two decades, puzzled out--at the atomic level--the function of the ribosome in piecing together proteins. [More]
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