A thread on the snippets (paragraphs & quotes) from the book ‘Gene Machine’ by Venki Ramakrishnan (a Nobel Laureate)
Talks about a machine that decodes the data in DNA 🧬
This thread will be updated as I read further & further.
1/ Ribosomes aka Mother of all molecules.
2/ DNA is decoded into proteins & they run the show.
3/ Why discovering the structure of DNA was a start of a revolution?
Also why discovering the ribosome’s led to a Nobel price for the author?
They turn out to the bedrock of multiple new research fields.
4/ Immediate commercial reason to study ribosomes 🦠
5/ Most scientists are momentum investors.
6/ Time travelling back to the 16th century schools would be damn fun.
7/ 23-24th century books (?) will say the same about some of the visionary geniuses that roam around us.
8/ Sexism in the 1940-60s.
9/ Luck (?)
10/ Short breaks.
11/ Be shameless.
12/ Black Box.
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