291 | Venki Ramakrishnan on the Biology of Death and Aging

946.947 - 971.08 Venki Ramakrishnan

You know, I think... You know, smaller pieces of RNA had been already crystallized and their structures determined. So we knew that that's what RNA double helices should look like. I mean, the thing about the ribosome is not the structure of the individual pieces, but rather how they were put together in this large complex and how they interacted, how the different pieces interacted.