3D illustration of blue and yellow ribosomes translating red mRNA into purple polypeptides.
| 3 min read
During translation, ribosomes can pause on the nucleic acid. Researchers showed that collisions from incoming proteins get them moving again.

translation

A rendering of a human brain in blue on a dark background with blue and white lines surrounding the brain to represent the construction of new connections in the brain.

Defying Dogma: Decentralized Translation in Neurons

Digital illustration of neurons

Captivated by the Great Expanse of Neurons

Maintaining Hormone Balance Through RNA Decay

The Scientist Speaks - What Comes Up Must Go Down: Maintaining Hormone Balance Through RNA Decay

illustration of a large purple molecular complex with a strand of orange RNA running through it and red strand emerging from it

Study Reveals Outsize Role of mRNA Region in Tuning Expression

Fruit flies in a vial

Accurate Protein Production Promotes Longevity

The Scientist Speaks - Thieves on the Inside: Viral Control of Host Gene Expression

A microscope image of a dinoflagellate.

Dinoflagellate Genome Structure Unlike Any Other Known

How RNAs Called SINEUPs Upregulate Translation

Infographic: Synthetases and the Evolution of Circulatory Systems

Protein Synthesis Enzymes Have Evolved Additional Jobs

Paper Used in Creationist Teaching Retracted After 30 Years

translation gene genetics ribosome enhancers knowable magazine

What Does It Look Like to “Turn On” a Gene?

Study: Ribosomes are Functionally Diverse

Mouse Livers Grow and Shrink Daily

Noncoding RNA Helps Cells Recover from DNA Damage

Starvation Response Triggers Melanoma Invasion

Top Technical Advances 2016

How to Track Translation in Living Cells

Protozoans Found With No Dedicated Stop Codons

Ciliates Are Genetic-Code Deviants

Trending

Photo of John Calhoun crouches within his rodent utopia-turned-dystopia

Universe 25 Experiment

Torso of a slim white woman

Bellybutton Bugs

Colorful image of the outline of a person (navy) with the gastrointestinal tract highlighted (pink). There are images of microbes surrounding the person.

Childhood Exposure to Bacterial Toxin Tied to Early-Onset Colorectal Cancer

A brown-shelled snail with green and white striped eye stalks on the petals of a yellow tiger lily.

How Tiny Organisms Control Minds, Create Zombies, and Shape Ecosystems

Multimedia

Faster Fluid Measurements for Formulation Development

Meet Honeybun and Breeze Through Viscometry in Formulation Development

Unchained Labs
The Future of CRISPR

The Future of CRISPR

Image of a woman in a microbiology lab whose hair is caught on fire from a Bunsen burner.
April 1, 2025, Issue 1

Bunsen Burners and Bad Hair Days

Lab safety rules dictate that one must tie back long hair. Rosemarie Hansen learned the hard way when an open flame turned her locks into a lesson.

View this Issue
Faster Fluid Measurements for Formulation Development

Meet Honeybun and Breeze Through Viscometry in Formulation Development

Unchained Labs
Conceptual image of biochemical laboratory sample preparation showing glassware and chemical formulas in the foreground and a scientist holding a pipette in the background.

Taking the Guesswork Out of Quality Control Standards

sartorius logo
An illustration of PFAS bubbles in front of a blue sky with clouds.

PFAS: The Forever Chemicals

sartorius logo
Unlocking the Unattainable in Gene Construction

Unlocking the Unattainable in Gene Construction

dna-script-primarylogo-digital

Products

Atelerix

Atelerix signs exclusive agreement with MineBio to establish distribution channel for non-cryogenic cell preservation solutions in China

Green Cooling

Thermo Scientific™ Centrifuges with GreenCool Technology

Thermo Fisher Logo
Singleron Avatar

Singleron Biotechnologies and Hamilton Bonaduz AG Announce the Launch of Tensor to Advance Single Cell Sequencing Automation

Zymo Research Logo

Zymo Research Launches Research Grant to Empower Mapping the RNome