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Ribosome

2020-01-30 · 1,132 views · license: CC BY-NC 2.0

Ribosome — pen and ink drawing by Daniel Ari Friedman. "I knew the ribosome was going to be the focus of Nobel prizes. It stands at the crossroads of biology, between the gene
Ribosome — pen and ink drawing

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"I knew the ribosome was going to be the focus of Nobel prizes. It stands at the crossroads of biology, between the gene and what comes out of the gene. But I had convinced myself I was not going to be a winner." – Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

"There is no question, then, that RNA presents a filing system perfectly capable of handling any load of learning and memory which the human being is likely to put upon it—and a billion times more than that quantity, too." – Isaac Asimov, "The New York Times Magazine", October 9, 1966.

"Ancient DNA available from this time in Anatolia shows no evidence of steppe ancestry similar to that in the Yamnaya (although the evidence here is circumstantial as no…

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