Cells use proteins to make other proteins - new research could explain how the first proteins arose without other enzymes ...

A recent study published in the journal Aging sheds light on how aging interferes with the brain’s ability to produce key ...

"Our study is a big step towards this goal, showing how RNA might have first come to control protein synthesis." Many ...

Myristoylation is a co-translational process catalyzed by N-myristoyltransferases (NMTs) on ribosomes, but its mechanism ...

Scientists from Uppsala University have used cryo-electron microscopy to reveal details of the protein synthesis mechanism in the parasite Giardia intestinalis, which causes diarrhoeal disease. The ...

New research shows at atomic detail how antibiotics affect the process of protein production inside bacteria. The study uses cryo-electron tomography to observe the dynamics of the translation ...

A so-called pathological protein long associated with Parkinson's disease has been found in a new study to trigger cells to increase protein synthesis, an event that eventually kills the subset of ...