Only recently has the ribosome - one of the oldest molecular machines in evolutionary terms - been recognized as an active regulator of gene expression at the level of protein biosynthesis.

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South Korean researchers have, for the first time in the world, uncovered how messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) vaccines ...

Lariocidin, a peptide made by bacteria living in soil, was effective against several different microbes responsible for deadly infections. UIC researchers working with collaborators at McMaster ...

A small molecule shaped like a lasso may be a powerful tool in the fight against infectious diseases, according to a new study in Nature co-authored by University of Illinois Chicago researchers.

These are specialized, folded sequences within an RNA strand that are ... allow the replication of viruses in infected cells by recruiting host ribosomes. In recent decades, however, more and ...

The cells in our body also update their "status" by presenting to their environment small proteins that are constantly being produced inside the ... process, the ribosome, the cell's protein ...

If I’ve convinced you that self-similar networks manifest from the highest level of human organizations, down to the smallest ...