Watch Protein Synthesis

From RamblingsThoughts of Prof Bil the Man: Protein Synthesis the film (it's a 37MB file off of a slow server, be prepared to wait).

Some background on the film from Bil's blog entry:

I gather that it was made in the early 70s and we have clearly learned a lot about protein synthesis since then. The funniest part for me is the description of the ribosome as an amorphous mass that assembles on the mRNA chain.

The introduction is by Paul Berg, future Nobel laureate, and he illustrates the state of the art in the understanding of protein synthesis. At the time, Professor Berg was the chairman of Biochemistry at Stanford.

The film was made at UCSD. Other major scientific collaborators were Kent Wilson, from Chemistry and Biochemistry at UCSD, and Dick Palmiter, then a post-doc and now at U of Washington.

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Don't watch in the library. I have to put my mouse on top of the stop bottom just in case I couldn't help laughing out in public.

Very ... 60s.

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