As pathogenic bacteria continue to evolve and find ways to evade common medications, researchers have been racing to develop new antibiotics to avoid a crisis. Reporting in Nature, scientists have now ...

Whereas each cell in a multicellular organism carries the same DNA or genome, its transcriptome varies widely according to cell type and function ... point in time. Ribosomes are the sites ...

But Barna believes—and has evidence to suggest — that different ribosomes have different affinities and may be more apt to translate some mRNA types than others. Similarly, ribosomes without ...

Researchers reveal that cardiomyocytes and skeletal muscle cells replace their existing stock of ribosomes with a different type which can make physical contact with mitochondria, the batteries of ...

Scientists have believed that the ribosome performed the same type of work with all mRNA, like a standardized assembly line that it did not regulate on its own. However, researchers from the ...

It was also surprising that this tethered ribosome could support growth in the absence of wild-type ribosomes.” Turns out that Ribo-T worked even better than Drs. Mankin and Jewett believed it ...

Cells change their ribosomes when they receive a danger signal from the immune system, the new study showed. "They change the ...

The molecular machines that cells use to build proteins are backed by a billion years of evolution. In that time, these machines—ribosomes—have become exceptionally good at forging amide bonds ...

Scientists at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have identified 4,208 previously unannotated open reading frames (ORFs) across 679 human-associated viral genomes using a high-throughput method ...

The ribosome, with its role of synthesizing several thousands or tens of thousands of types of proteins within the cell, had been thought to be in command in linking any combinations of amino acid ...

Before our body can use this information, it is copied to mRNA, a type of messenger molecule. The mRNA carries this information to the ribosomes in the cell, which then read it and produce proteins.