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 ...

Lots of it. Many ribosomes can be working on a single strand of mRNA at once. Protein synthesis isn't a slow process, either. A protein chain 400 amino acids long can be assembled in 20 seconds!

Researchers from the Tanenbaum group at the Hubrecht Institute have developed a new microscopy technique to observe how ...

A novel microscopy method has been created by researchers from the Tanenbaum group at the Hubrecht Institute to view the ...

mRNA stability can be rapidly modulated to alter the expression of specific genes thereby providing flexibility in effecting changes in patterns of protein synthesis. An evolutionarily conserved ...

Researchers developed a technique to gain a deeper understanding of ribosome function and their cooperative behaviors.

While some of the initial zeal around localized vaccine production in Africa has waned since the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, efforts to bolster the continent’s immunization autonomy—especially | ...

The inherent instability of mRNA allows cells to rapidly adjust protein levels in response to changing conditions by controlling the synthesis and degradation of specific mRNA molecules. mRNA vaccines ...

This process of protein synthesis occurs in two stages - transcription and translation. When a gene is to be expressed, the base sequence of DNA is copied or transcribed into mRNA (messenger RNA).

We found that inclusion or exclusion of the 3′UTR of an mRNA that encodes a transcription factor did not change how much of the transcription factor protein was expressed but determined the location ...

Researchers developed a microscopy technique to observe ribosomes translating mRNA in real time. They found that ribosomes ...