Genetics Yale School of Medicine

Thomas Steitz, Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for showing how ribosomes function, work that has important implications for antibiotics.

Dr. Thomas Steitz, Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, headed the team that mapped the ribosome's structure.

Dr. Judy Cho, co-director for education at the Yale Center for Clinical Investigation talks about the need to bring knowledge gained in biomedical research to bear in patient care. YCCI develops young investigators who are adept at collaborating with clinicians to put the basic discoveries of bench science to work improving patient care.

Yale's James Noonan describes genetic differences between humans and other primates.

Ronald Breaker of Yale discusses his work with highly conserved RNA mechanism with great power to initiate change. In a world before DNA, riboswitches may have carried out many of the functions of life.

Professor Anna Marie Pyle discusses new findings about RNA processing and the form-function relationship of Group II introns and their evolution.