New study shows RNA polymerase I halts at abasic DNA damage, helping prevent faulty rRNA production and exposing lesions for ...

MYC coordinates protein synthesis through the transcriptional control of RNA and protein components of ribosomes, and of gene products required for the processing of ribosomal RNA, the nuclear ...

A promising new treatment to combat "undruggable" cancers has been green-lit for a human trial in 2025. It's hoped the novel ...

Human ribosomal RNA (rRNA) genes are essential for building ... Particularly high variations were found on a segment called 28S rRNA, an essential component of the protein-translating ribosome.

Northwestern Medicine scientists have uncovered new details about how poxvirus hijacks its host's protein synthesis machinery ...

In the beginning -- of the ribosome, the cell's protein-building workbench -- there were ribonucleic acids, the molecules we call RNA that today perform a host of vital functions in cells.

The discovery of RNA began with the discovery of nucleic acids by Friedrich Miescher in 1868 who called the material 'nuclein' since it was found in the nucleus. RNA was found to be distinctly ...