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Ha and Cornish

Caption: Physics professor Taekjip Ha and postdoctoral fellow Peter Cornish report that they are the first to observe the dynamic, ratchet-like movements of single ribosomal molecules in the act of building proteins from genetic blueprints.

Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer, U. of I. News Bureau.

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