box Navigate to: Summary- Sidney Altman- Thomas R. Cech Press release Award ceremony speech Contents: Introduction » The chemistry of life and its central dogma » Enzymes – biological catalysts » Ribonucleic acid (RNA) – the biomolecule which can do it all » The history of biocatalysis » What happens next? » Further reading Based on materials from the 1989 Nobel Poster for Chemistry. Credits and references for the poster » Go to the top of the page