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Manchester scientists develop a tiny molecular machine they hope one day could synthesize new drug molecules or new types of plastic.
Via Phillip Trotter
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January 13, 2013 3:28 AM
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Via Phillip Trotter
Manchester scientists have developed a tiny molecular machine that mirrors the function of the ribosome, which builds the proteins in our body's cells.
Just a few millionths of a millimetre in size, the minute machine resembles a ring threaded on a rod. As this ring moves along the rod, it picks chemical units and assembles them into chains, just as ribosomes join up the building blocks of proteins. Its hard to overestimate how potentially important this is. ranging from drug production to synthetic materials the degree of promise is enormous.