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Macrolones Offer Promising Strategy for Combating Resistant Bacteria

New research from the University of Illinois Chicago suggests that a novel antibiotic that disrupts two distinct cellular targets would make it 100 million times harder for bacteria to evolve resistance.

24 Jul 2024

Study Identifies Microproteins as Key Source of Tumor-Specific Antigens in Liver Cancer

If microproteins translated from noncanonical open reading frames (ncORFS) in long noncoding ribonucleic acids (RNAs) could be a potential source of tumor-specific antigens.

23 Jul 2024

Earliest Ancestors of Life Explored in Latest Scientific Study

A digital representation illustrating how LUCA was already under attack from viruses even at 4.2 billion years ago. Image Credit: Science Graphic Design

15 Jul 2024

Protein SRSF1 Plays Unexpected Role in Unwinding Complex RNA Structures

RNA transcription is the genomic process in which a cell produces a duplicate of a gene's DNA sequence.

31 May 2024

Discovery of New Cancer Cell Death Pathway Involving Schlafen11 Gene

Chemotherapy kills cancer cells. But the way these cells die appears to be different than previously understood.

17 May 2024

Study Reveals the Surprising Role of Spliceosomes in Introns' Journey

Although you may not appreciate them, or have even heard of them, throughout your body, countless microscopic machines called spliceosomes are hard at work.

13 May 2024

Protein Complex Movement May Regulate Cell Division, Impacting Disease Research

Scientists at Umeå University in Sweden have found that the movement of a unique protein complex known as the Mediator along DNA genes may affect the process of cell division.

6 May 2024

The Assemblage of Nuclear Sub-Structures

Researchers from the lab of Rohit Pappu and associates at the Center for Biomolecular Condensates have figured out how nucleolar sub-structures are assembled, a first for the condensate field.

19 Mar 2024

The Role of RNA Modifications in Stress Granule Dynamics

An intriguing finding regarding how human cells protect themselves under stressful conditions has been revealed in a recent study conducted by an international research team. According to the research, a little genetic alteration known as ac4C serves as an essential defender by assisting cells in producing stress granules, which are units of defense.

28 Feb 2024

Decoding the Secrets of Ribosome Recycling at the Endoplasmic Reticulum

Researchers from Stanford University and LMU have uncovered how cells renew their endoplasmic reticulum’s protein factories.

26 Feb 2024

Retrotransposon-Based PRINT Technique Holds Potential for Precise Gene Insertion

The recent approval of a CRISPR-Cas9 therapy for sickle cell disease demonstrates that gene editing tools can do a superb job knocking out genes to cure hereditary disease.

22 Feb 2024

Researchers Redesign the Future of mRNA Therapeutics

Scientists have unearthed that errors in the interpretation of therapeutic mRNA by the cell’s decoding apparatus can incite an inadvertent immune reaction within the body.

7 Dec 2023

Researchers Redesign Future mRNA Therapeutics to Prevent Potentially Harmful Immune Responses

Researchers have discovered that misreading of therapeutic mRNAs by the cell’s decoding machinery can cause an unintended immune response in the body.

5 Dec 2023

Ribo-seq Optimization to Gain Insights into Protein Production

Ribosome profiling, a gene sequencing approach, has increased the understanding of the human genome by uncovering previously undiscovered protein-coding regions.

22 Sep 2023

Innovative Method Accelerates Discovery of New Drugs by Harnessing the Power of Ribosomes

A research team led by University of California, Irvine scientists has developed an innovative method for quickly and efficiently creating vast collections of chemical compounds used in drug discovery by harnessing the power of ribosomes, the molecules found in all cells that synthesize proteins and peptides.

24 Aug 2023

Scaffolding Protein Helps in the Creation of Biomolecular Condensate

Biomolecular condensates are loosely organized assemblies that carry out a variety of vital tasks inside all live cells. However, the mechanism by which proteins and other biomolecules combine to create these assemblies within cells is not fully known.

16 Aug 2023

Ribosome News and Research

Macrolones Offer Promising Strategy for Combating Resistant Bacteria

Study Identifies Microproteins as Key Source of Tumor-Specific Antigens in Liver Cancer

Earliest Ancestors of Life Explored in Latest Scientific Study

Protein SRSF1 Plays Unexpected Role in Unwinding Complex RNA Structures

Discovery of New Cancer Cell Death Pathway Involving Schlafen11 Gene

Study Reveals the Surprising Role of Spliceosomes in Introns' Journey

Protein Complex Movement May Regulate Cell Division, Impacting Disease Research

The Assemblage of Nuclear Sub-Structures

The Role of RNA Modifications in Stress Granule Dynamics

Decoding the Secrets of Ribosome Recycling at the Endoplasmic Reticulum

Retrotransposon-Based PRINT Technique Holds Potential for Precise Gene Insertion

Researchers Redesign the Future of mRNA Therapeutics

Researchers Redesign Future mRNA Therapeutics to Prevent Potentially Harmful Immune Responses

Ribo-seq Optimization to Gain Insights into Protein Production

Innovative Method Accelerates Discovery of New Drugs by Harnessing the Power of Ribosomes

Scaffolding Protein Helps in the Creation of Biomolecular Condensate

Access of METAPs to Protein Factories is Controlled by NAC

New Automated Machine Learning Tool to Design and Interpret Biological Sequences

Reengineering the Cellular Synthetic Machinery to Produce Never-Before-Seen Polymers

Natural Peptide From Fruit Flies may Pave Way for New Antibiotics

From Memory to Metaplasticity: Unraveling the Brain's Secrets

Revolutionizing Mass Spectrometry: A Deep Dive into Plasmion’s SICRIT® Technology

Expert Insights: HiMedia Labs on Advancing Nucleic Acid Extraction Across Industries

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