Global analysis reveals new insights into the ribosome—with important implications for disease
Thursday, September 19, 2013 - 11:30
in Biology & Nature
In molecular biology, the ribosome represents the machinery necessary to assemble proteins, the building blocks of life. In this process, information encoded in the genome's DNA is first transcribed to messenger RNA in the nucleus, then transported to the ribosome where protein-assembly instructions are put in motion to translate the code into actual proteins.