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Brookhaven Lab research leads to Nobel in chemistry
Photo credit: AP | Joint winner of the 2009 chemistry Nobel Prize Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, sits in his lab at the Medical Research Council Lab in Cambridge, England. Ramakrishnan, along with Thomas Steitz and Israeli Ada Yonath, won the 2009 Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for mapping ribosomes, one of the cell's most complex components, at the atomic level. (Oct. 7, 2009)
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Two Americans and an Israeli scientist were awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize for chemistry Wednesday for showing how ribosomes translate the DNA code into life - work that led to the development of new antibiotics.
Ribosomes are the parts within cells that interpret genetic information to make proteins. The researchers mapped their precise atomic structure using a method called X-ray crystallography,...
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