The world of science is not separated into strict categories; often, different fields of study overlap, similar to the way that biology and chemistry do in this article. At ETH Zurich, a science and technology university in Switzerland, scientists have been studying biomolecules at an atomic level in order to better understand how antibiotics work in conjunction with ribosomes. By knowing the molecular structure of mitochondrial ribosomes, researchers can better know how to create antibiotics that only target bacterial ribosomes and not human ribosomes.
The scientists used cryo-electron microscopy at a resolution of 3.4 angstroms to build a complete atomic model of the large subunit of the mitoribosome and to map its entire molecular structure. This technology led to other discoveries about mitoribosomes as well, and has implications for biology, chemistry, and anywhere that these fields overlap.
http://phys.org/news/2014-10-
The scientists used cryo-electron microscopy at a resolution of 3.4 angstroms to build a complete atomic model of the large subunit of the mitoribosome and to map its entire molecular structure. This technology led to other discoveries about mitoribosomes as well, and has implications for biology, chemistry, and anywhere that these fields overlap.
Submitted by LauraAnn Schmidberger
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