291 | Venki Ramakrishnan on the Biology of Death and Aging

1638.255 - 1666.368 Venki Ramakrishnan

People have already done that. So the structures of the ribosome do describe it in atomic detail. So we know the X, Y, and Z coordinate of every atom in one state of the ribosome. But remember, the ribosome is a highly dynamic machine. It moves around. It undergoes all sorts of processes. conformational changes. And so it's very much like watching a complicated machine which moves around.