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  • n  an organelle in the cytoplasm of a living cell; they attach to mRNA and move down it one codon at a time and then stop until tRNA brings the required amino acid; when it reaches a stop codon it falls apart and releases the completed protein molecule for use by the cell
    the ribosome is the site of protein synthesis

  • Then how, without the complex ribosome "factories," was primitive protein produced? Last week, in a report published in the journal Origin of Life, a team of molecular biologists .
  • Tetracycline, which kills bacteria by disabling a cellular structure known as the ribosome, is the target of one such effort.
  • Tetracycline, which kills bacteria by disabling a cellular structure known as the ribosome, is the target of one such effort.
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  • Swraj Paul in Sify
    In that the ribosome constitutes the core of the cellular translation mechanism, which is the sine qua non of gene expression, which is the essence of life as we know it, these findings constitute a major step in understanding the evolution of... Carl Woese http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Woese&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNFKuLP7j_BW7LaO4E4W3HLcLgr26A Science Daily (press release) http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/08/080818184248.htm&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGqWLf2iGUrad9UuJ3TS2c8_qHVwg Aug 18, 2008 83907 111504 ribosome Venki's work on the ribosome...... could prove as relevant to human health as the discovery of penicillin itself," Lord Paul Drayson said after Ramakrishnan was Wednesday named alongside Thomas Steitz of America and Ada Yonath of Israel for the...
  • George Church in Science Daily (press release)
    The reason it is a step toward artificial life is that the key component of all living systems is the ribosome, which does protein synthesis. It is the most conserved and one of the most complicated biological machines,Church said.

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