October 13, 2006

Nobel Prizes Awarded in Chemistry, Medicine, and Physics

By SUSAN BROWN and RICHARD MONASTERSKY

Ribonucleic acid was the award-winning molecule of 2006. Two of this year's Nobel Prizes in the sciences have gone to scientists whose research reveals how RNA, the intermediary between genes and the biochemical machinery that makes proteins, does its work. Freeze-frame images of enzymes at work reading genes to create RNA recipes for proteins took the annual prize in chemistry, and the discovery of a particular form of RNA that destroys those recipes and prevents the protein from being made

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