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).

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