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Friday, October 9, 2009

Israeli's Yonath wins Nobel in Chemistry

Yonath, 70, is the fourth woman to win the Nobel chemistry prize and the first since 1964, when Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin of Britain received the award. "I'm really, really happy," Yonath said. "I thought it was wonderful when the discovery came. It was a series of discoveries. ... We still don't know every, everything, but we progressed a lot." Ribosomes are crucial to life because they produce the proteins that control the chemistry of plants, animals and humans. Working separately, the three laureates used a method called X-ray crystallography to pinpoint the positions of the hundreds of thousands of atoms that make up the ribosome

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