Human eggs are some of the most patient cells in the body, lying dormant for decades until needed. A study published in The EMBO Journal shows that the cells deliberately slow the activity of their ...

Researchers have identified a molecular mechanism that regulates the activity of N-myristoyltransferases. This enzyme plays a ...

Unlike the brain and spinal cord, peripheral nerve cells, whose long extensions reach the skin and internal organs, are capable of regenerating after injury. This is why injuries to the central ...

With a new mapping tool, Princeton engineers have revealed how a factory inside cells builds ribosomes, the machinery ...

Proteins are the infinitely varied chemicals that make cells work, and science has a pretty good idea how they are made. But ...

Because they rely on hosts for a majority of functions, viruses aren’t considered alive. But entities like this one ...

This new review article highlights the critical role of ribosome biogenesis in liver health and disease progression. As the center of protein synthesis, ribosomes influence liver regeneration, ...

COVID-19 patients who are vaccinated -- and were hospitalized with reduced kidney function -- had better outcomes than unvaccinated patients, a new study finds.

In this work, we have used empirical constraints linking ribosome abundance and growth rate [equations (1) and (2); Fig 1 A] to identify a feature of ribosome synthesis regulation that renders the ...

This shows that lysines are important for correct import of Mrp17 but are dispensable for ribosome function. Another interesting implication of this result is that Mrp17 N‐terminus can be adjusted to ...

A new technique reveals ribosome cooperativity, providing new insights into protein production. Researchers from Marvin Tanenbaum’s group at the Hubrecht Institute (Utrecht, Netherlands) have ...