Scientists at UCL have discovered a novel role played by ribosomes during the folding of new proteins in cells, described in their paper in Nature. Ribosomes, the cell's dedicated molecular ...

The cell creates mRNA, a copy of DNA, to assemble proteins. The mRNA is then read by a different molecule known as a ribosome, which converts it into protein.

Ribosomes are tiny molecular machines inside all living cells that build proteins, and ribosome biogenesis is the complex, multi-step process by which they are made. During brain development ...