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The Israeli Nobel prize winner, Ada Yonath, who won the 2009 award for Chemistry along with Venky Ramakrishnan - for her pioneering work on the structure of ribosomes - a key part of the machinery of our cells spoke to NDTV. Her work has helped prove the efficacy of antibiotics has been remarkable. She is the first woman from the Middle East to win the Nobel in Chemistry and the first woman from the Middle East to win a Nobel in sciences.

Go after your curiosity. You need to have more curiosity. Even more curiosity. But it’s not enough to be curious. You have to have passion. Says Professor Ada E. Yonath. She comes from a poor family, but eventually made her way to the highest levels of science. She studies ribosomes – factories inside cells that translate our genetic information and produce proteins. Without them, life as we know it wouldn’t exist. Few people believed her when she was starting her research – most colleagues tended to ridicule her. But she succeeded – and her research is important among other things for the development of antibiotics. Which is also why she received the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. www.ceskatelevize.cz/porady/1044129…stry-laureate/

Studuje ribozomy - továrny v buňkách, které překládají naši genetickou informaci a tvoří bílkoviny. Ada Yonath, historicky čtvrtá žena, která dostala Nobelovu cenu za chemii. Kolik pokusů musela udělat, než přišla na strukturu a funkci ribozomu? Jak s tím souvisí lední medvědi a jízdní kolo? A jakou má radu pro začínající vědce? Vystoupení profesorky Yonath jsme točili v Mendelově muzeu. www.ceskatelevize.cz/porady/1044129…7411058090311/