A Leslie wrote:
BB members may be interested to know that the 2009 Nobel prize for
chemistry has been awarded to Venki Ramakrishnan, Tom Steitz and Ada
Yonath for their structural work on the bacterial ribosome.
FYI:
http://yalepatents.org/2009/05/26/patented-therapy-based-on-ribosome-structure/
Determination and uses of the atomic structures of ribosomes and
ribosomal subunits and their ligand complexes :
http://patft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=7504486.PN.&OS=PN/7504486&RS=PN/7504486
Hmm.
Paul.
