Inside our cells, ribosomes—the tireless "protein factories" of life—have just shown off a new skill they haven't used in ...

Researchers have identified a molecular mechanism that regulates the activity of N-myristoyltransferases. This enzyme plays a ...

Ribosomes are tiny molecular machines inside all living cells that build proteins, and ribosome biogenesis is the complex, ...

But ribosome variety may also play biological roles, scientists say. Unusual variations in the cellular protein factory can skew development, help cancer spread and more. News ...

The ribosome is a finely tuned machine, honed by more than a billion years of evolution. It’s very good at its job—making proteins from a defined set of α-amino acids.

When ribosomes go rogue Unusual variations in the cellular protein factory can skew development, help cancer spread, and more. But ribosome variety may also play biological roles, scientists say.

“We wanted to know how quickly a human ribosome can read the genetic code, how quickly it finds the tRNA that’s complementary to the mRNA,” explained said co-first author Mikael Holm, PhD.

Ribosome profiling has the power to interrogate —in vivoand on a global scale — what is being translated, how this translation is regulated and where in the cell the translation of specific ...

Within a cell, DNA carries the genetic code for building proteins. To build proteins, the cell makes a copy of DNA, called mRNA. Then, another molecule called a ribosome reads the mRNA, translating it ...

The ribosome is one of the primary antibiotic targets in the bacterial cell. Here, Daniel Wilson discusses how high-resolution crystal structures of antibiotic–ribosome complexes have provided ...

"The ribosome has more than 50 different parts – it has the complexity of a sewing machine in terms of the number of parts," said University of Illinois physics professor Taekjip Ha, who led the ...