The ribosome is the protein-making "factory" within cells responsible for knitting together amino acids into polypeptide chains that form proteins.
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 22, 2015
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A joint research group of Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) and Kyoto Sangyo University has discovered that a protein, during its synthesis, may destabilize the structure of the ribosome and end its own synthesis ...
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 20, 2017
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A research team led by Won Bae Jeon at DGIST's Companion Diagnostics and Medical Technology Research Group conducted a joint study with the research team of Professor Jong Eun Lee at Yonsei University's College of Medicine ...
Bio & Medicine
Aug 15, 2017
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In terms of space organization, DNA has powers rivaling Marie Kondo. A strand of DNA that is two meters long intricately folds itself into a cell nucleus only 10 microns across. (One of the hairs on your head has a diameter ...
General Physics
Jan 16, 2020
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Nagoya University researchers discovered the molecular mechanisms underlying the shoot-to-root stage of nitrogen-demand signaling in plants. The team found that genes encoding CEPD polypeptides are switched on in the shoots ...
Biotechnology
Mar 27, 2017
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Stimuli-sensitive materials can respond to physical forces with structural phase transitions. This also applies to biopolymer–surfactant mixtures, a study by German and Chinese scientists now reports. Surprisingly, the ...
Materials Science
May 14, 2018
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Very different nanostructures are formed through the self-assembly of a polypeptide depending on which of two cosolvents is added to the reaction mixture, three RIKEN chemists have shown. This discovery is of fundamental ...
Materials Science
Apr 7, 2021
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