The Weizmann Institute showed me respect and didn't require many administrative tasks, so I was quite independent. I did what I wanted.

My kindergarten teacher encouraged me to learn, as did my school headmaster, who gave me a grant to study.

For quite a while, I didn't receive a higher academic status. I didn't feel any discrimination against me as a woman scientist, but I hadn't produced a lot of science journal articles.

I used ribosomes from very, very robust bacteria under very, very active conditions and found a way - I actually took advantage of research done before me at the Weizmann, the same institute I am now - how to preserve their activity and their integrity while they crystallized.

At the end of the 1970s, I was a young researcher at the Weizmann Institute with an ambitious plan to shed light on one of the major outstanding questions concerning living cells: the process of protein biosynthesis.

Many ribosomes act simultaneously along the mRNA, forming superstructures called polysomes.