Northwestern Medicine scientists have uncovered new details about how poxvirus hijacks its host's protein synthesis machinery ...

In many genetic diseases, a small error in the DNA code can have devastating effects. These errors, called nonsense mutations ...

Therefore, the transcriptome functions as a kind of catalog of all of the genes that are being expressed in a cell at a particular point in time. Ribosomes are the sites in a cell in which protein ...

Scientists observe ribosomal cooperation that prevents pauses in protein synthesis, revealing new dynamics for cellular ...

A ribosome is a complex macromolecular structure in the cell which is involved in the process of translation. This is an essential function of all living cells, allowing for the production of ...

Scientists at UCL have discovered a novel role played by ribosomes during the folding of new proteins in cells, described in their paper in Nature. Ribosomes, the cell's dedicated molecular ...

Scientists from the Netherlands Cancer Institute have now shown that cancer cells can use these ribosomes to boost their invisibility cloak, helping them hide from the immune system. The team ...

Ribosomes, which under the microscope look like millions of specks scattered across the cell, or—closer up—like a bread roll torn into unequal halves, appear similar in all life forms.

Synthetic biology researchers at Northwestern University, working with partners at Harvard Medical School, have for the first time synthesized ribosomes -- cell structures responsible for ...

Scientists have now shown that cancer cells can use these so-called ribosomes to boost their invisibility cloak, helping them hide from the immune system. The protein factories of our cells are ...

Researchers at The Netherlands Cancer Institute found that cancer cells can modify their ribosomes to enhance their ability to hide from the immune system. By increasing ribosomes with a flexible arm, ...

Ribosomes are the protein factories of our body’s cells. Our immune system is constantly monitoring our body. In order to survive, cancer cells need to evade this inspection. “Making cells ...