Transfer ribonucleic acid (tRNA) is a type of RNA molecule that helps decode a messenger RNA (mRNA ... The tRNA molecule has a distinctive folded structure with three hairpin loops that form ...

Ramakrishnan, a distinguished structural biologist and Nobel Laureate in Chemistry (2009), is renowned for his groundbreaking ...

Translation is the process by which a protein is synthesized from the information contained in a molecule of messenger RNA (mRNA ... Translation occurs in a structure called the ribosome ...

Messenger RNA–based therapeutics and vaccines are ... And this is precisely where the scientists' new strategy comes in.

A new study from the Kowalinski group at EMBL Grenoble characterized the structure of an important trypanosomal protein ...

DNA is a complex molecule that consists of two strands coiled around each other to form a double helix structure ... is copied into a complementary RNA strand. RNA polymerase enzymes read the DNA ...

After entering host cells, it seizes control of the translation process, which converts messenger ribonucleic ... important discovery was an intricate RNA structure near the critical "frameshift ...

When a gene is to be expressed, the base sequence of DNA is copied or transcribed into mRNA (messenger RNA). This process ... amino acids to finalise the structure.

In DNA, two complementary strands of nucleotides pair up through hydrogen bonds between the bases (A with T and G with C) to form the iconic double helix structure ... to offspring during reproduction ...