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Cellular biochemical machines such as the ribosome distinguish the right molecules from the wrong ones with similar chemical structures with an astonishing level of accuracy. How do they do that? Theorists now show that a nonequilibrium biochemical system can indeed use external energy to perform accurate molecular ``proofreading.''
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