As I’m sure you all know, the winners of this year’s Nobel prize for chemistry were Venki Ramakrishnan from the LMB in Cambridge, UK, Tom Steitz from Yale, US, and Ada Yonath from the Weizmann Institute in Israel. You can find the full story in this month’s issue, which should be winging it’s way to RSC members right now (unless it’s stuck in a Royal Mail sorting office while the posties are on strike). You can also read it online here, even if you’re not a member!

But as they say, a picture’s worth a thousand words, so what’s a video worth? Here’s one from Ramakrishnan’s group that shows the wonders of the ribosome in action:

Enjoy the issue!

Phillip Broadwith