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 discovery of the ribosome and the elucidation of its role in gene expression was one of the main achievements of molecular biology in the 1950s and '60s. Early investigations revealed that ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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

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 ...