Transcript for Ada Yonath Interview: What did you receive the Nobel Prize for?

Determining the structure of the ribosome,

which is the machine that translates the genetic information into proteins,

which are the cell workers that do all the things cells need in order to exist.

In human beings, proteins are performing unwanted actions like breathing

and also wanted, like my motion now.

It’s all done by proteins. Proteins can do what they are made for...

by their three-dimensional structure, which is dictated by the sequence of the building blocks.

This information comes from the gene.

And the machine that knows how to read the gene and make the protein is called ribosome.

Determining the structure opened the way to understand better how the ribosome works.