Quotes About Ribosomes

#1. I started working on ribosomes when I was a post doc, in 1978, when it would have been impossible, really, to solve it. But, it was just a fundamental problem in biology.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

#2. Ribosomes contain RNA, messenger RNA provides the information, transfer RNAs brings the amino acids; so the protein-making machinery is an RNA machinery, completely.

Christian De Duve

#3. Ribosomes have an error rate of about one letter in 10,000, far lower than the defect rate in our own high-quality manufacturing processes. And they operate at a rate of about 10 amino acids per second, building whole proteins with chains comprising hundreds of amino acids in less than a minute.

Nick Lane

#4. Many ribosomes act simultaneously along the mRNA, forming superstructures called polysomes.

Ada Yonath

#5. I used ribosomes from very, very robust bacteria under very, very active conditions and found a way - I actually took advantage of research done before me at the Weizmann, the same institute I am now - how to preserve their activity and their integrity while they crystallized.

Ada Yonath

#6. mitochondria and the ribosomes and the chloroplasts and the endoplasmic reticulum.

Belle Payton

#7. I began studying ribosomes as a postdoctoral fellow in Peter Moore's laboratory in 1978.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

#8. Well, the human genome has massive redundancy - that means that two per cent of the DNA does all the work of instructing the ribosomes that build the proteins that make up the cells of your body. Ninety-eight per cent of your DNA just sits there doing nothing. Taking up space in the gene.

Ian McDonald

#9. Never assume that habitual silence means ability in reserve.

Geoffrey Madan

#10. The gods, (if gods to goodness are inclined If acts of mercy touch their heavenly mind), And, more than all the gods, your generous heart, Conscious of worth, requite its own desert!

John Dryden

#11. The whole trouble is that we won't let God help us.

George MacDonald

#12. Rather than answering me, he grabs his shirt from the bed and pulls it on. I bid goodbye to his abs as he buttons it up.

Laura Thalassa

#13. Poverty is not socialism. To be rich is glorious.

Deng Xiaoping

#14. Play the last measure very softly.

Anna Pavlova

#15. May the light of your love have enough power to extinguish all the darkness from the world.

Debasish Mridha

#16. It's not the gentle part I have a problem with, it's the dull, stupid part.

Gabrielle

#17. The true forgiver will always look into your eyes.

Aniruddha Sastikar

#18. I didn't know how you were going to do it, but from now on I'll never worry about what'll become of you, son, you'll always have an idea.

Harper Lee

#19. hallway, and into the loft. Beth helped Janae

Joyce Ann Brown

#20. All history consists of successive excursions from a single starting-point, to which man returns again and again to organize yet another search for a durable scale of values.

Aldo Leopold

#21. She craned up on her toes and kissed my cheek ... "Don't do that", I said. "You just met me. This is New York.

Jonathan Lethem

#22. You don't want to influence the same system you are trying to forecast.

Nate Silver

#23. I don't like going out that much. When I'm out, I think about my couch.

Jennifer Lawrence