1972
Press release
Press release
October 1972 has decided to award the 1972 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Christian B. Anfinsen, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA for his work on ribonuclease, especially concerning the connection between the amino acid sequence and the biologically active conformation and the other half jointly to Stanford Moore and William H. Stein, booth…
moreSpeed read: Anatomy of a killer
Speed read
As the workhorses of our internal defence system, we owe an enormous debt to antibodies. Responding to external threats such as disease-causing microorganisms, protein antibody molecules are released by specialized immune cells into the blood stream to disarm the threat. Their mode of attack is target recognition: millions of different molecules can be created, each…
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