During translation, ribosomes can pause on the nucleic acid. Researchers showed that collisions from incoming proteins get ...

Human cells contain ribosomes, a complex machine that produces proteins for the rest of the body. Now the researchers have ...

Northwestern Medicine scientists have uncovered new details explaining how poxviruses manipulate host cells to enhance their ...

Additionally, research has shown that the decoding mechanisms in human ribosomes differ from those in bacterial ribosomes, leading to higher fidelity in mRNA translation. This distinction is ...

Ramakrishnan, a distinguished structural biologist and Nobel Laureate in Chemistry (2009), is renowned for his groundbreaking ...

The human genome encodes potentially thousands of tiny proteins that were previously overlooked. The search is on to find out ...

Using electron microscopy, Kummer and her colleagues Giang Nguyen and Christina Ritter have created a 3D model of a part of the human ribosome, which is smaller than the width of a human hair.

Researchers have developed a new microscopy technique to observe how ribosomes function in cells. With this method, they can monitor individual ribosomes as they convert mRNA into proteins.

Ribosomes getting stuck The team also made an important discovery about ribosome collisions—where one ribosome runs into another due to a tricky RNA segment or differences in speed, for example ...

Postdoctoral scholar Daniela Soto has earned a prestigious fellowship from HHMI with eight years of funding to study the ...

In the males, core ribosomes were unable to pick up the slack—and as a ... Ware similarly expresses excitement about what this study means for human health. “One would expect that these results would ...

Ribosomes are composed of two subunits, the small and large subunits, each containing specific rRNA molecules. The main types of rRNA include: Small Subunit rRNA: In prokaryotes, the small subunit ...