Ep. 18 - Ada Yonath – Unravelling the protein factory of life
How can you possibly interview an octogenarian, chemistry noble prize winner, who became the first woman after 45 years to win the prize for her breakthrough work on applying biological cryo-crystallography to study the function and structure of the ribosome. Well, enter beautiful Ada Yonath – by far the most engaging, disarmingly honest, and super charming scientist I have yet chatted with. Discover how ribosomes, our factory of proteins, are critical for the life of every living cells even – surprise, surprise – viruses. Oh, and by the way, she game no answer to the world’s greatest challenge. A Podcast by Tec Sounds.