One of life's many mysteries is how it ended up choosing only a set of 20 amino acids to build proteins for its wide catalog ...

Scientists have revealed that the bacterial chaperonin GroEL, with its partner GroES, can capture and refold nascent proteins while they are still being made on ribosomes. This cotranslational folding ...

Starving yeast cells create a protective barrier in mitochondria that could reveal how cancer survives and resists treatment ...

The searing, burning sensation that one experiences after an afternoon spent in the sun on the beach or in the garden without ...

Storing genetic material as DNA or RNA is all well and good for life on Earth, but it would be entirely pointless if we ...

New research shows that skin cells store protein-making machinery at their edges, enabling rapid repair when the skin barrier is damaged. The system relies on desmosomes, which hold messenger RNAs and ...

A KAIST research team has identified the real reason why anticancer drugs kill cancer cells—targeted anticancer therapies do ...

Discover how specific mutations in ARS genes cause inherited peripheral neuropathies and potential avenues for targeted treatments.

Ribosomes are large molecular machines made of protein and RNA that build all proteins in the cell. Because protein production is extremely energy-intensive, cells rapidly reduce protein synthesis ...

Ribosomes, the cell’s protein-making factories, consume large amounts of energy as they build the proteins that keep cells alive and functioning. When cells experience stress - such as lack of ...