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FOUND IN TRANSLATION Selected Papers by Joachim Frank on Single-Particle Reconstruction and the Structural Basis of Protein Synthesis World Scientific Press, Singapore 2013 Series on Structural Biology Hardcover, 450 pages ISBN:...

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During my attendance of the 2013 Solvay Conference in Chemistry, I met Dr. Franklin Lambert, Professor of Theoretical Physics emeritus, Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Solvay Institutes, Belgium, who kindly introduced me at the Public Lecture.  Later Dr. Lambert gave me copies of archival material of the Solvay Institute, all related to electron microscopy.  These letters are quite interesting since they relate to the very beginning of electron microscopy, when its utility in biology was still controversial. Over the 100 years of its existence, the Solvay Institute has funded a large number...

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The Franklin Institute has just announced that Joachim Frank will be the recipient of the 2014 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Life Science.

The 2014 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Life Science is awarded to Joachim Frank for the development of Cryo-Electron Microscopy, for using this technology to investigate the structure of large organic molecules at high resolution, and for discoveries regarding the mechanism of protein synthesis in cells.

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Dr. Frank is now a member of the Faculty of 1000. F1000 identifies and recommends important articles in biology and medical research publications. Articles are selected by a peer-nominated global 'Faculty' of the world's leading scientists and clinicians who then rate them and explain their importance. From the numerical ratings awarded, F1000 has created a unique system for quantifying the importance of individual articles. Launched in 2002, F1000 was conceived as a collaboration of 1,000 international Faculty Members. The name stuck even though the remit of the service continues to grow...

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A paper by the Frank Lab has just been accepted by the eLife journal. Cryo-EM visualization of the ribosome in termination complex with apo-RF3 and RF1 Jesper Pallesen, Yaser Hashem, Gürkan Korkmaz , Ravi K. Koripella , Chenhui Huang , Måns Ehrenberg , Suparna Sanya, and Joachim Frank Abstract: Termination of messenger RNA translation in Bacteria and Archaea is initiated by release factors (RFs) 1 or 2 recognizing a stop codon in the ribosomal A site and releasing the peptide from the P-site...

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Two papers by the Frank Lab have just been accepted by Cell and Biopolymers journals.

CELL Structure of the mammalian ribosomal 43S preinitiation complex bound to the scanning factor DHX29 Yaser Hashem, Amedee des Georges, Vidya Dhote, Robert Langlois, Hstau Y. Liao, Robert A. Grassucci, Christopher U.T. Hellen, Tatyana V. Pestova and Joachim Frank

Abstract: Eukaryotic translation initiation begins...

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Three papers by the Frank Lab have just been accepted by Nature, Nature Communications, and Journal of Structural Biology.

NATURE High-resolution cryo-EM structure of Trypanosoma brucei eukaryotic ribosome Yaser Hashem, Amedee des Georges, Jie Fu, Sarah N. Buss, Fabrice Jossinet, Amy Jobe, Qin Zhang, Hstau Y. Liao, Robert A. Grassucci, Chandrajit Bajaj, Eric Westhof, Susan Madison-Antenucci, and Joachim Frank

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  We have just been informed that one of our articles has been selected for evaluation by Faculty of 1000. F1000 is a global community of over 10,000 experts who select, rate and evaluate the very best articles in biology and medicine. The service is widely...

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Check out Dr. Frank's latest book.