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How does the cell convert DNA into working proteins? The process of translation can be seen as the decoding of instructions for making proteins, involving mRNA in transcription as well as tRNA. But ...

In a recent article published in the journal Nature, researchers used a classical concept in computational linguistics to design a new algorithm, LinearDesign, which optimized the structural stability ...

Today, thousands of databases with biological data are publicly available. They include data on gene and protein sequences and detailed measurements of different cellular parameters, such as the exact ...

A group of Stanford researchers has hacked Moderna’s messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccine for the novel coronavirus, Motherboard first reported on Monday, and published its entire genetic sequence on the open ...

A virus relies on the host's translation machinery to replicate itself and become infectious. Translation efficiency ...

Transcription and translation are processes a cell uses to make all proteins the body needs to function from information stored in the sequence of bases in DNA. The four bases (C, A, T/U, and G in the ...

Daniel E. Eyler, Monika K. Franco, Zahra Batool, Monica Z. Wu, Michelle L. Dubuke, Malgorzata Dobosz-Bartoszek, Joshua D. Jones, Yury S. Polikanov, Bijoyita Roy, Kristin S. Koutmo Proceedings of the ...

A new technique reveals ribosome cooperativity, providing new insights into protein production. Researchers from Marvin Tanenbaum’s group at the Hubrecht Institute (Utrecht, Netherlands) have ...

A virus relies on the host's translation machinery to replicate itself and become infectious. Translation efficiency ...