Podcast: The gene machine - with Venki Ramakrishnan

This month, the Nobel Prize winner Venki Ramakrishnan in conversation with Vivienne Parry, tells the story of the race to uncover the structure of the ribosome.

Listen time: 1:25:47
Three-dimensional landscape of the genome
Image credit: National Cancer Institute via Unsplash

The ribosome is the mother of all molecules without which nothing lives. The structure of the ribosome is a fundamental discovery that resolves an ancient mystery of life itself and could lead to the development of better antibiotics to fight the most deadly diseases.

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