Alert to biologists: Ribosomes can translate 'untranslated region' of messenger RNA
Friday, August 14, 2015 - 12:30
in Biology & Nature
In what appears to be an unexpected challenge to a long-accepted fact of biology, researchers say they have found that ribosomes -- the molecular machines in all cells that build proteins -- can sometimes do so even within the so-called untranslated regions of the ribbons of genetic material known as messenger RNA (mRNA).