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Published online 7 October 2009 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2009.981
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Ribosome clinches the chemistry Nobel
Three researchers share the prize for revealing the workings of the cell's protein-making machine.
Three molecular biologists who mapped the structure and inner workings of the ribosome — the cell's machinery for churning out proteins from the genetic code — have won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, who works at the Medical Research Council's Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, UK; Ada Yonath of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, and Thomas Steitz at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, share the prize equally.
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Congratulations to the trio on their well deserved award. It reminded me of the seminal contributions of the genius Gopalasamudram Narayana Iyer Ramachandran in a related discipline. Dr. Upinder Fotadar
Ummmm....erthyromycin...that would be "erythromycin", ossibly??
Ed, thanks for spotting the typo – indeed, erythromycin.