Only recently has the ribosome—one of the oldest molecular machines in evolutionary terms—been recognized as an active ...

The research field of "cellular IRESes" lay dormant for decades, as there was no uniform standard of reliable methods for the clear characterization of these starting points for the ribosome-mediated ...

Dr. Kerstin Elbing Geschäftsstelle Berlin Verband Biologie, Biowissenschaften und Biomedizin in Deutschland e.V. Dr. Kathrin Fröhlich from the University of Jena will be awarded the 2025 Research ...

With continuing changes at the federal level impacting people here in San Diego, one of the industries paying close attention ...

Background Mechanical stress on the heart is commonly considered the sole stimulus explaining the synthesis and release of ...

With the long-term goal of creating living cells from non-living components, scientists in the field of synthetic biology work with RNA origami. This tool uses the multifunctionality of the natural ...

New RNA-based active agents reliably protect plants against the Cucumber mosaic virus (CMV), the most common virus in ...

Scientists at the UCLA Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center and the University of Toronto have revealed how a tiny chemical modification in RNA, known as m6A, plays a critical role in the ...

RNA is generally single-stranded, as DNA is transcribed by RNA polymerases into mRNA (messenger RNA), which is read by ribosomes to generate protein (translation). Biologically active RNAs ...

RNA splicing is a modification of the nascent pre-messenger RNA (pre-mRNA) transcript in which introns are removed and exons are joined prior to translation. For many eukaryotic introns ...