This process of protein synthesis occurs in two stages - transcription and translation. When a gene is to be expressed, the base sequence of DNA is copied or transcribed into mRNA (messenger RNA).

The model calculations in the present study show that proteins are therefore preferably synthesized in the branched, tapering ...

Researchers from Cologne, Bochum, Padova and Angers have discovered a novel connection between mitochondrial function, ...

These genes also control protein synthesis and much of an ... or downstream or even in the introns of a gene, and still activate gene expression. Because many genes are coregulated, studying ...

Nerve cells have amazing strategies to save energy and still perform the most important of their tasks. Researchers from the ...

These modifications can regulate gene expression and increase mRNA stability. Ribosomes, the cellular machines responsible for protein synthesis, are essential for all living organisms.

This important study demonstrates the potential of synthetic gene circuits to detect and target aberrant RAS activity in cancer cell lines. The circuit design is novel and the evidence supporting the ...

Biomedical engineers at Duke University have demonstrated a new synthetic approach that turbocharges bacteria into producing more of a specific protein, even proteins that would normally destroy them, ...

A European research collaboration has found that besides regulating the fusion of mitochondria, Mitofusin 2 also ensures protein quality control. This discovery could open up new routes to treating ...

So how does protein synthesis make hair? If you've looked at the activity (or even the text version of the activity), you know how a section of DNA instructs a cell how to make a protein.

You can revise by clicking the links below. To brush up on your GCSE reproduction, the genome and gene expression knowledge, click on the link to your awarding body specific revision: ...