Mimicking living cells: Synthesizing ribosomes

Saturday, June 29, 2013 - 02:30 in Health & Medicine

Synthetic biology researchers at Northwestern University, working with partners at Harvard Medical School, have for the first time synthesized ribosomes—cell structures responsible for generating all proteins and enzymes in our bodies—from scratch in a test tube.

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