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From a medicinal standpoint, the ribosome is important because it is what antibiotics target.
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The ribosome reads the code and assembles long polymer chains out of amino acids.
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Yonath for having showed what the ribosome looks like and how it functions at the atomic level.
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The ribosome is the structure within the cell where protein synthesis takes place.
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The researchers have shown that viruses such as HIV have signals that force the ribosome to back up by just one component.
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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2009 awards studies of one of life's core processes: the ribosome's translation of DNA information into life.
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Manchester scientists have developed a tiny molecular machine that mirrors the function of the ribosome, which builds the proteins in our body's cells.
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Such a system, Dr Dale thinks, could be the ancestor of the ribosome and, if wrapped in a fatty membrane, of the cell.
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If the work of the ribosome is impeded, the cell dies.
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Their three-dimensional models showed how different antibiotics bind to the ribosome.
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When a cell translates a gene into a protein, it uses a messenger molecule that carries the genetic information to a protein factory called a ribosome.
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All three have used a method called X-ray crystallography to map the position for each and every one of the hundreds of thousands of atoms that make up the ribosome.
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The ribosome is one of nature's true marvels.
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