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**This year’s Nobel prize for chemistry has been awarded to Professors Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas Steitz and Ada Yonath.**The prize is awarded for the study of the structure and function of the ribosome, which the cell’s protein factory.
Professor Ramakrishnan is based at the Medical Research Council’s Molecular Biology Laboratories in Cambridge, UK.
This research has revealed how the DNA code is translated into life.
The prize is to be shared equally between the three scientists.