protein synthesis
Americannoun
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The researchers traced the issue to a specific phase of protein synthesis known as translation elongation.
From Science Daily • May 29, 2026
Five hours later, the researchers took another muscle biopsy to measure how the meal and exercise together affected protein synthesis.
From Science Daily • Oct. 15, 2025
The researchers saw that SNORA73 acts as a "molecular glue" between the mRNA and the protein synthesis machinery that helps facilitate this process.
From Science Daily • Nov. 22, 2024
This is an important insight into the evolutionary history of protein synthesis systems, but it is not sufficient to trace the evolutionary pathway based on the RNA World hypothesis.
From Science Daily • Apr. 18, 2024
Soon, however, I abandoned thinking at the molecular level and turned to the much easier job of reading biochemical papers on the interrelations of DNA, RNA, and protein synthesis.
From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson
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