(From left) Photos of Venkatraman Ramakrishnan andThomas Steitz of the US and Israel's Ada Yonath
US Duo, Israeli Win Nobel Chemistry Prize -- AFP
STOCKHOLM — American scientists Venkatraman Ramakrishnan and Thomas Steitz and Ada Yonath of Israel won the Nobel Chemistry Prize on Wednesday for work on the ribosome, a cellular machine that makes proteins, the stuff of life.
The ribosome "reads" DNA and translates the code to make the body's tens of thousands of different proteins, thus building and controlling life at the chemical level.
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