As a eukaryote, it's in many ways similar to human cells, so biologists often use it as a model organism to study fundamental cellular processes. Ribosomes turn upside-down in hungry cells ...

Amid a surge in drug-resistant bacteria, researchers believe they have discovered a new class of antibiotics for the first ...

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

“But what we found is that the chemical modification of the ribosome that is guided by the snoRNA actually had nothing to do with senescence,” Mendell said; the amount of protein synthesis in the cell ...

The molecules deliver instructions to ribosomes to make interferon proteins ... This quality control is common in human cells and in DNA viruses but highly unusual in RNA viruses.

All cells with a cell nucleus eventually evolved ... More information: Elena Lavdovskaia et al, A roadmap for ribosome assembly in human mitochondria, Nature Structural & Molecular Biology ...

Further experiments on mouse cell lines showed that Ribosome ST is the only ribosome capable of properly ... Ware similarly expresses excitement about what this study means for human health. “One ...