The discovery of ribosomes dates back to the 1950s, when George Palade first observed dense particles in the cytoplasm of cells using electron microscopy. These particles were later named "ribosomes" ...

The ribosome, a nano-machine that manufactures all of a cells' proteins, is also a target of many antibiotics. Using the Advanced Light Source at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, UC Berkeley ...

The essential ATP-binding cassette protein ABCE1 splits 80S ribosomes into 60S and 40S subunits after canonical termination or quality-control-based mRNA surveillance processes. However, the ...

Proteins are the infinitely varied chemicals that make cells work, and science has a pretty good idea how they are made. But a critical aspect underlying the machinery of protein manufacture has long ...

Synthetic biology researchers at Northwestern University say they have developed a system that can rapidly create cell-free ribosomes in a test tube, then select the ribosome that can perform a ...

The protein factories of our cells are much more diverse than we thought they were. Scientists from the Netherlands Cancer ...

In 2012, a Japanese research group discovered that human skin cells acquire pluripotency when introduced to lactic acid bacteria (Lactobacillus acidophilus) (Ohta et al., PLOS ONE e51866, 2012). Now, ...

A team led by UT Southwestern Medical Center scientists has identified a specific stage of neurodevelopment when differentiating neural cells produce fewer ribosomes, which are responsible for making ...

Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) have announced that they have captured the high-resolution snapshots of the bacterial ribosome ...