Understanding the cell’s massive molecular machine: the ribosome
The Prize: The 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded jointly to Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas A. Steitz, and Ada E. Yonath “for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome.” The Science: The central dogma of molecular biology has remained essentially the same for decades: DNA encodes RNA which in turn encodes protein. Every cell’s […]