2006
Yeast and human beings
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2006 10.000 litres of yeast culture – which corresponds to 150 kg of yeast – was used to finally produce 2 g of pure RNA-polymerase. Eukaryotes are organisms whose cells have well-defined nuclei. All green plants, fungi and mammals belong to this group. Roger Kornberg has developed a system of…
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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2006
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2006 Contents: | | | | | | | | Nobel Poster from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, web adapted by Nobel Web
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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2006 Editors: Ulrika Björkstén, Nobel Museum, Claes Gustafsson, KI, Lars Thelander, member of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry, Helena Enstedt and Malin Lindgren, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Layout and illustrations: Typoform Printing: Katarinatryck AB 2006 Copyright © The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences 2006 Box 50005,…
moreThe DNA-reader in our cells
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2006 The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2006 to Roger D. Kornberg “for his studies of the molecular basis of eukaryotic transcription”. Roger D. Kornberg Professor at Stanford University School of Medicine, USA. Born in 1947. Roger Kornberg surrounded by…
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