Several recently reported structures reveal the details of ribosome architecture and provide new insights into the mechanism of protein synthesis. Although high quality diffracting crystals of the ...

For the first time ever, researchers from Japan directly visualized protein translocation across membranes using high-speed ...

A central tenet of biology has long held that each amino acid added to a peptide chain is specified by an RNA message as it threads its way through the ribosome. But Howard Hughes Medical Institute ...