{"id":674,"date":"2006-10-04T07:42:07","date_gmt":"2006-10-04T07:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/10\/04\/chemistry-nobel-for-eukaryotic\/"},"modified":"2006-10-04T07:42:07","modified_gmt":"2006-10-04T07:42:07","slug":"chemistry-nobel-for-eukaryotic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/10\/04\/chemistry-nobel-for-eukaryotic\/","title":{"rendered":"Chemistry Nobel for Eukaryotic Transcription"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chemistry Nobel Prize was announced this morning, and goes to only one guy (which is somehwat unusual in this age of massively collaborative science): Roger D. Kornberg of Stanford University, <a href=\"http:\/\/nobelprize.org\/nobel_prizes\/chemistry\/laureates\/2006\/press.html\">&#8220;for his studies of the molecular basis of eukaryotic transcription&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I am very much not a chemist, so all I can really do is sound those words out, and get that &#8220;eukarote&#8221; is a term for a type of organism, and &#8220;transcription&#8221; usually seems to involve DNA, so this must have something to do with getting messages from DNA to other parts of the cell. Well, OK, I can also read the press release, which pretty much confirms that.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re hip-deep in biologists and biochemists here in blogdom, so I&#8217;m sure one of them will provide a detailed explanation. Congratulations to Dr. Kornberg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chemistry Nobel Prize was announced this morning, and goes to only one guy (which is somehwat unusual in this age of massively collaborative science): Roger D. Kornberg of Stanford University, &#8220;for his studies of the molecular basis of eukaryotic transcription&#8221;. I am very much not a chemist, so all I can really do is&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/10\/04\/chemistry-nobel-for-eukaryotic\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chemistry Nobel for Eukaryotic Transcription<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in_the_news","category-science","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}