Synthetic biologists from Yale were able to re-write the genetic code of an organism - a novel genomically recoded organism (GRO) with one stop codon - using a cellular platform that they developed ...

Synthetic biologists from Yale were able to re-write the genetic code of an organism—a novel genomically recoded organism ...

By experimentally capturing and imaging snapshots of protein synthesis of nascent chains ... John Christodoulou (UCL Structural & Molecular Biology) said, "We have found that ribosomes are even ...

The central dogma of molecular biology suggests that the primary ... that RNA does much more than simply play a role in protein synthesis. For example, many types of RNA have been found to be ...

Once the budding molecular biology community was convinced about ... use it to direct the synthesis of a protein, and then determine the amino acid sequence of the synthesized protein.

came across an article about the challenges of spider silk protein synthesis. Zhang, who had freshly started his own lab after working on metabolic engineering during his postdoctoral research with ...

Nerve cells have amazing strategies to save energy and still perform the most important of their tasks. Researchers from the ...

Northwestern Medicine scientists have uncovered new details explaining how poxviruses manipulate host cells to enhance their own protein production, according to a study published in Cell Reports.

Direct chemical synthesis has been adapted to make oligonucleotides of remarkable length, including an 800 nucleotide green fluorescent protein gene and a 1728 nucleotide bacteriophage DNA polymerase ...

This evolutionary conservation highlights the fundamental role of tRNA in the essential process of protein synthesis. The basic structure ... Defects in tRNA biology, such as mutations in tRNA genes ...

Proteins, the pillars of cellular function, often assemble into “complexes” to fulfill their functions. A study by the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and the Weizmann Institute, in collaboration with ...

A new imaging technique reveals ribosomes work together when translating mRNA, preventing slowdowns in protein production. This discovery challenges prior beliefs and could revolutionize our ...