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 are complexes of rRNA molecules and proteins, and they can be observed in electron micrographs of cells. Sometimes, ribosomes are visible as clusters, called polyribosomes.

Heart toggles between maintenance and energy-boost mode using ribosomes New mechanism found which can be exploited to prevent or heal damage to the heart Date: March 7, 2023 Source: Center for ...

Persell Middle School eighth graders Sydney Maggio and Abrielle Monaghan came up with a fascinating analogy for their Advanced Track Science project in Lina Scoma’s class. They created an iPhone ...

New research shows that cells monitor for ribosome collisions to determine the severity of the problem and how best to respond when things start to go awry.

In what appears to be an unexpected challenge to a long-accepted fact of biology, Johns Hopkins researchers say they have found that ribosomes -- the molecular machines in all cells that build ...

What do ribosomes want? The big question, by analogy to the “selfish gene” theory, then became: Might ribosomes “want” to make copies of themselves?

Ribosomes are found in all cells of the body and use the genetic information from our genes to produce proteins.

Tiny protein factories, or ribosomes, have been made to self-replicate outside a living cell for the first time. The achievement is a crucial step towards building self-replicating artificial ...

The mechanics and mechanisms of ribosomal translocation, including the conformational rearrangements in the ribosome and the roles of EF-G and tRNAs, are discussed in this Perspective by Mohan ...