“Right now there are only 15 people in the world who know how to design a molecular machine out of DNA, ” says Washington computer scientist Zoran Popovi′c.

华盛顿大学计算机方面的科学家佐兰·波波维奇说：“现在世界上只有15 个人知道如何从DNA 中设计出一台分子机器。

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Another nucleic acid, RNA, carries the information to a molecular machine called a ribosome, which reads the RNA and strings together amino acids to form the protein.

另一种被称之为rna的核酸负责将信息传递到名为核糖体的分子机器上，核糖体通过阅读RNA信息，并将氨基酸串联起来形成蛋白质。

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Within each synapse is a set of proteins, which, like the components of an engine, bind together to build a molecular machine called the postsynaptic density - also known as the PSD.

每个神经突触都有拥有一系列蛋白，它们像机器的零件一样，结合在一起，搭建出一个被称为突触后致密区(postsynaptic density PSD)的分子机器。

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"The three laureates have accomplished what many scientists thought impossible, namely to determine the three- dimensional structure of the molecular machine that makes all the proteins in a cell, the so-called ribosome,"

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Manchester scientists have developed a tiny molecular machine that mirrors the function of the ribosome, which builds the proteins in our body's cells.

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In essence, the PacBio machine could become a powerful molecular microscope that allows researchers to, for instance, watch drugs block enzymes and use that information to build better ones.

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Now Vertex is aiming the machine gun at another class of proteins--caspases, which act as molecular executioners to kill damaged cells.

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