STOCKHOLM (AFP) - Venkatraman Ramakrishnan and Thomas Steitz of the US and Israel's Ada Yonath on Wednesday won the Nobel Chemistry Prize for their studies on the ribosome.

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The trio were honoured for "mapping the ribosome -- one of the cell's most complex machineries -- at the atomic level," it said.

Ribosomes produce proteins, which in turn control the chemistry of all living organisms. They are crucial to life, and are also a major target for new antibiotics.

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