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

Scientists have discovered Sukunaarchaeum mirabile, a unique archaeon residing within marine plankton, challenging traditional definitions of life. This microbe possesses a stripped-down genome, ...

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 ...

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 ...