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Published online 14 October 2009 | Nature 461, 860 (2009) | doi:10.1038/461860a
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Structural biology bags chemistry prize
Chemistry Nobel for trio who described the ribosome.
Three structural biologists who mapped the structure and inner workings of the ribosome — the cell's machinery for churning out proteins from genetic code — have won this year's 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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