Crystallizing an Intron

Thomas Steitz, Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for showing how ribosomes function, work that has important implications for antibiotics.

Dr. Judy Cho, co-director for education at the Yale Center for Clinical Investigation talks about the need to bring knowledge gained in biomedical research to bear in patient care. YCCI develops young investigators who are adept at collaborating with clinicians to put the basic discoveries of benc…

Ronald Breaker of Yale discusses his work with highly conserved RNA mechanism with great power to initiate change. In a world before DNA, riboswitches may have carried out many of the functions of life.

Dr. Thomas Steitz, Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, headed the team that mapped the ribosome's structure.