Transfer RNAs (tRNAs) deliver specific amino acids to ribosomes during translation of messenger RNA into proteins. The abundance of tRNAs can therefore have a profound impact on cell physiology, but ...

Blacksburg, Va. – Scientists at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBI) report in the Journal of Bacteriology that two alphaproteobacteria lack the universal extra guanylate nucleotide typically ...

A team of researchers led by University of California, Riverside biomedical scientists has identified a small, previously ...

In-depth mass spectrometric analysis reveals how cells survive stress by coordinating various enzymes that modify RNAs involved in protein synthesis. Despite the remarkable functional diversity that ...

We welcome Drs Nathan Howell and Boaz Tirosh as new faculty members in the Department of Biochemistry! Dr. Howell is an Assistant Professor with research interests in tRNA modification. He is an ...

Two new options for making designer proteins made news in 2001—both from labs at Scripps Research Institute. Since 2001, Schimmel and Schultz have taken different directions with unnatural amino acids ...

Nathalie Reid decided to pursue a career in biochemistry because the field combines her interests in biology, chemistry and mathematics. Now, the first-year PhD candidate in the Department of ...

In a new pharmaphorum podcast, web editor Nicole Raleigh speaks with Dr Alan Roth, CEO of Oxford Drug Design, about the use ...

When studying for a doctoral degree (PhD), candidates submit a thesis that provides a critical review of the current state of knowledge of the thesis subject as well as the student’s own contributions ...

A cell contains several hundred thousand tRNA molecules, each of which consists of only 70 to 90 nucleotides folded into a cloverleaf-like pattern. At one end, tRNAs carry one of the twenty amino ...