For years, ETH researchers have been investigating a molecular complex that plays a key role in protein synthesis. They have now discovered that this ...

Proteins are among the most important molecular building blocks of life. They are chains of amino acids assembled in our cells by ribosomes, the molecular "protein factories" of our bodies. The ...

Scientists at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have trapped the ribosome, a protein-building molecular machine essential to all life, in a key transitional state that has long eluded ...

Scientists at the University of Manchester have identified an extra step in protein production, a major activity of all cells, which they believe impacts particularly on how our cells respond to ...

Higher Gene expression Protein synthesis Gene expression is the process by which specific genes are activated to produce a required protein. The process is made up of the transcription and translation ...

A newly developed luciferase-based reporter can detect problems in protein translocation and disulfide bond formation in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). Inspired by natural mechanisms found in ...

DNA is a triplet code. Each triplet, a group of three bases, codes for a specific amino acid. A detailed view of the process of transcription - making an mRNA copy of a gene’s worth of DNA in the ...

Researchers at ETH Zurich recently explained the role of a molecular complex that orchestrates the production of proteins in ...