This super-extremophile, using genetic instructions from a few different microbes, would create a complex a molecule called Acetyl Coenzyme-A, or Acetyl Co-A for short.

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Dr Kobilka - who is now at Stanford University in California - joined the HHMI team in the 1980s, and they took another tack to discover how the receptors come about, searching within the human genome for the code that lays out the genetic instructions for them.

BBC: Chemistry Nobel goes to Robert Lefkowitz and Brian Kobilka