The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2006
| 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. |
Yeast and human beingsEukaryotes 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 using yeast fungi to study transcription. Yeast cells are similar enough to human cells for the results to apply to us as well. |
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| | Introduction: The DNA-reader in our cells | Yeast and human beings | Taking pictures of molecules | The future | Timeline | Further reading | Credits | |
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