In the microscopic world of bacteria, gene transfer is a powerful mechanism that can alter cellular function, drive antibiotic resistance and even shape entire ecosystems. Now an interdisciplinary ...

Only recently has the ribosome—one of the oldest molecular machines in evolutionary terms—been recognized as an active ...

The rRNA structures also provide binding sites for ribosomal proteins, which help stabilize the overall ... This discovery led to the concept of the ribosome as a ribozyme, an RNA molecule with ...

Researchers working with RNA-seq face a major challenge: ribosomal RNA (rRNA ... particularly if they are studying a non-model organism. Many direct mRNA capture methods are based on poly ...

Gene products are often proteins, however non-protein coding genes can encode functional RNA, including ribosomal RNA (rRNA ... and develop AbExp, a model predicting variants causing aberrant ...