Roberts in 1958. Subsequent studies by James Watson, Francis Crick, and others revealed the central role of ribosomes in protein synthesis, laying the foundation for our current understanding of these ...

Ribosomes are the sites in a cell in which protein synthesis takes place. Cells have many ribosomes, and the exact number depends on how active a particular cell is in synthesizing proteins.

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 ...

Again—how could one missing or unusual protein in the ribosomes cause such a thing? Barna believes that affinity is key. To make a protein, ribosomes don’t receive instructions directly from ...

The protein factories of our cells are much more diverse than we thought they were. Scientists from the Netherlands Cancer Institute have now shown that cancer cells can use these ribosomes to ...

ABOVE: Hematopoietic stem cells have mechanisms in place to generate intrinsically disordered proteins, which could underlie ...

Their study demonstrates cancer cells may use our very own protein factories, ribosomes, to hide their visibility. The findings are published in Cell in an article titled, “P-stalk ribosomes act ...

The protein factories of our cells are much more diverse than we thought they were. Scientists have now shown that cancer cells can use these so-called ribosomes to boost their invisibility cloak ...

For a protein to be made, first the genetic code for it is copied from DNA into a messenger RNA (mRNA). Then, a ribosome, the cellular machine that follows the instructions in genetic code to ...

This is a ribosome, its different parts depicted in different colours. Ribosomes are the protein factories of our body’s cells. Our immune system is constantly monitoring our body. In order to ...