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

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

Figure 1: PDF specifically binds to the 50S ribosomal subunit via its C-terminal helix. On the basis of our biochemical results, we designed crystallographic experiments. We reasoned that structural ...

Human cells contain ribosomes, a complex machine that produces proteins for the rest of the body. Now the researchers have come closer to understanding how the ribosome works. "It is amazing that we ...

HHMI scientists and their colleagues discover a new mechanism of protein synthesis. Ribosomes are the cell’s molecular machines, responsible for translating genetic information in messenger RNA into ...

One of the winners of this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry describes the efforts that went into piercing the ribosome's secrets Thomas Steitz, Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and ...

DNA gets all the glory, but genetic material wouldn’t be anywhere without ribosomes — cellular protein factories that build everything from insulin to fingernails. The Royal Swedish Academy of ...

Thomas A. Steitz, Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale and one of three winners of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, died Oct. 9 at his home in Stony Creek after a ...

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Ribosomes are tiny molecular machines inside all living cells that build proteins, and ribosome biogenesis is the complex, multi-step process by which they are made. During brain development, neural ...

Over the past decade or so, nanotechnology has produced small-molecule machines that can walk, perform basic chemical reactions, or do mechanical tricks, such as spin around or ratchet. Yet the field ...