Proteins are the infinitely varied chemicals that make cells work, and science has a pretty good idea how they are made. But ...

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

Based on several lines of interesting data, the authors conclude that FMRP, though associated with stalled ribosomes, does not determine the position on the mRNAs at which ribosomes stall. Although ...

Semiconductor factories are massive, expensive, and take a while to build. Brooklyn-based Nanotronics wants to change that ...

In an article published today in Nature, the team of Professor Denis Lafontaine (Head of the RNA Molecular Biology Laboratory ...

The cell creates mRNA, a copy of DNA, to assemble proteins. The mRNA is then read by a different molecule known as a ribosome ...

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.

Ribosomes Turn Upside-Down in Hungry Cells Researchers have noticed that yeast cells have a great way of surviving starvation ...

As Tanenbaum and his team watched translation unfold, they found that at any given time, each socRNA was bound by one to four ribosomes and that these molecular machines exhibited varied translation ...

Bacteria modify their ribosomes when exposed to widely used antibiotics, according to research published today in Nature Communications. The subtle changes might be enough to alter the binding ...