Nobel Prize in Chemistry

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Ribosomes translate the sequences of DNA (or more accurately RNA) into the amino acid sequences of proteins. Since this is the basis of virtually all life, it is a really big deal. The ribosome is an amazing little machine that can recognize the sequence of bases in RNA, and catalyze dipeptide bonds in consequence. It is made up of both RNA and protein, with the RNA carrying out most of the catalytic activities. Ribosomes contain a good sized proportion of the RNA and protein in your cells. I just came back from a seminar in which the ribosome was shown to control numerous aspects of cellular growth and division.

Sorry if this is a bit obtuse. I'm not trying to talk over anyone's head, its just really hard to put this in any simpler terms.
 
steingar said:
Sorry if this is a bit obtuse. I'm not trying to talk over anyone's head, its just really hard to put this in any simpler terms.
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If this stuff were simple, they wouldn't be giving the Nobel for it!:D
 
steingar said:
Ribosomes translate the sequences of DNA (or more accurately RNA) into the amino acid sequences of proteins. Since this is the basis of virtually all life, it is a really big deal. The ribosome is an amazing little machine that can recognize the sequence of bases in RNA, and catalyze dipeptide bonds in consequence. It is made up of both RNA and protein, with the RNA carrying out most of the catalytic activities. Ribosomes contain a good sized proportion of the RNA and protein in your cells. I just came back from a seminar in which the ribosome was shown to control numerous aspects of cellular growth and division.

Sorry if this is a bit obtuse. I'm not trying to talk over anyone's head, its just really hard to put this in any simpler terms.
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It is...that's why I gave my oversimplistic explanation and then punted to you.

Thanks!
 
Shocked I am that the guy who invented 5 hour energy did not get the prize! Well maybe next year.
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They snubbed the inventer of Enzyte, too.

Get thrown in prison for fraud, and everybody discounts your scientific achievements. It's all political.
-harry
 
mantakos said:
They snubbed the inventer of Enzyte, too.

Get thrown in prison for fraud, and everybody discounts your scientific achievements. It's all political.
-harry
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Good God! A thread about the Nobel in Chemistry and people are trying to get it moved to SZ! :yikes:

The Nobel Peace prize...OK...but this is Chemistry!!!

(ok...I know it was sarcasm...:blush:)
 
While the award is richly deserved, I tend to think of it as medical rather than chemical. Then again, Cary Mullis (inventor of the polymerase chain reaction) got his Nobel in chemistry.
 
steingar said:
While the award is richly deserved, I tend to think of it as medical rather than chemical. Then again, Cary Mullis (inventor of the polymerase chain reaction) got his Nobel in chemistry.
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And I thought of it as biochemistry, therefore chemistry.:dunno:
 
Cap'n Jack said:
And I thought of it as biochemistry, therefore chemistry.:dunno:
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I think of biochemistry as biology. Indeed, we have a Department of Biochemistry here in the (now) Division of Biological Sciences. Then again, there is another division of biochemistry in the Chemistry department as well.
 
steingar said:
I think of biochemistry as biology. Indeed, we have a Department of Biochemistry here in the (now) Division of Biological Sciences. Then again, there is another division of biochemistry in the Chemistry department as well.
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Where's your Redundant Department of Redundancy...oh wait, that's Political Science...
 
Does sound redundant, but the chemists approach things fairly differently from the biologists, and there really isn't that much overlap. As it is they're trying to organize a greater division of biochemistry in some guise. Our academic departments recently underwent a forced reorganization that will facilitate such a restructuring.
 
steingar said:
I think of biochemistry as biology. Indeed, we have a Department of Biochemistry here in the (now) Division of Biological Sciences. Then again, there is another division of biochemistry in the Chemistry department as well.
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There isn't any real boundary. Some physicist would claim it all though.
 
steingar said:
While the award is richly deserved, I tend to think of it as medical rather than chemical. Then again, Cary Mullis (inventor of the polymerase chain reaction) got his Nobel in chemistry.
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Kary Mullis has quite a bit of experience in chemistry... he once was quoted as saying that his use of LSD in college was more valuable than any of the courses he took.

Then again, I read somewhere that clinical trials of LSD, psilocybin, and ketamine are being conducted for their therapeutic value in treating a wide variety of mental and emotional disorders, so maybe he was right.

-Rich
 
RJM62 said:
Kary Mullis has quite a bit of experience in chemistry... he once was quoted as saying that his use of LSD in college was more valuable than any of the courses he took.

Then again, I read somewhere that clinical trials of LSD, psilocybin, and ketamine are being conducted for their therapeutic value in treating a wide variety of mental and emotional disorders, so maybe he was right.

-Rich
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Kary was, and I imagine still is, a lot of fun.
 
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