Ribosomes are the cell's heavyweight molecular machinery that produces proteins. It turned out, however, that in hungry yeast ...

That process led to the group discovering a lasso peptide that exhibited broad-spectrum antibiotic activity and was effective at killing both gram-positive and gram-negative pathogenic bacteria, along ...

The molecule was found in soil samples collected from a laboratory technician’s garden. The discovery shows that “there is ...

Scientists from the Wellcome Sanger Institute and Sun Yat-sen University discovered new cell populations that could improve understanding of why some muscle fibers age faster than others.

A previously unknown kind of ribosome is responsible for folding sperm proteins, which decay before fertilization if prepared by other ribosomes. Dan is a News Editor at The Scientist. He writes and ...

Proteins that trigger cell senescence occupy much of the literature on aging, but a small RNA moves into the limelight. Kamal is a freelance science journalist based in the UK with a PhD in virology ...

The table below list organelles, their function and the types of cell that they can be found in. Can you fill in the blanks to complete the table? Cell structure Description Function Cell type ...