Nobel laureate Prof Ada Yonath discusses her work on understanding ribosomes -- the protein factories that are found in every cell of every living organism. Presented by Dr Dyani Lewis.

"If one knows how antibiotic binds and we know what was changed in the ribosome of the bacteria in order to minimise or even stop the binding, we see what was changed and we can try to make the antibiotic with components that will bypass the change." -- Prof Ada Yonath

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