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Ribosome Recycling as a Drug Target

LMU researchers have elucidated a mechanism that recycles bacterial ribosomes stalled on messenger RNAs that lack termination codons.The protein involved provides a potential target for future antibiotics. So-called multidrug-resistant bacteria – strains that have become…

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Silicon pore optics stacks

[caption id="attachment_11050" align="alignright" width="200"] Credit: cosine[/caption] Stacks of carefully polished, coated and cut silicon wafers – normally used to manufacture integrated circuits – that will focus X-rays inside ESA’s Athena space observatory, due for launch…