Molecular assembler finally created
The following figures and their captions describe the mechanism of operation of the artificial molecular machine – here we start with the initial building blocks: a molecular ring, a polymer backbone with attached amino acids (green = phenylalanine, violet = leucine, red = valine), a stopper group, and a copper ion
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Ribosomes are the main engines of creation of the proteins on which the body depends. Now, an artificial analog of the biological ribosome has been designed and synthesized by Professor David Leigh FRS and his team in the School of Chemistry at the University of Manchester.
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