US duo and Israeli win Nobel Chemistry Prize

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan and Thomas Steitz of the United States and Ada Yonath of Israel won the Nobel Chemistry Prize on Wednesday for work on the ribosome, a cellular machine that makes proteins, the stuff of life. The ribosome ‘reads’ DNA and translates the code to make the body’s tens of thousands of different proteins, thus building and controlling life at the chemical level.