ribosomes, genetics & genomics

Only recently have scientists directly witnessed this most pivotal of events in biology, thanks to new technology that allows them to observe the process in living cells. It’s teaching them a lot.

An analysis of human cancer genome projects uncovers a counterintuitive loss of ribosomal gene copies.

Traditional stop codons have a double meaning in the protozoans' mRNA, sometimes calling for an amino acid during translation.

Newly developed techniques from four different groups rely on the same basic steps to track translation in live cells.

Bits of the transcriptome once believed to function as RNA molecules are in fact translated into small proteins.

Researchers scour the genome for micropeptides encoded within RNAs presumed to function in a noncoding capacity.

Multiple consecutive adenosine nucleotides can cause protein translation machinery to stall on messenger RNAs.