{"id":170919,"date":"2023-08-30T13:37:21","date_gmt":"2023-08-30T18:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/new-research-sheds-light-on-the-formation-of-one-of-natures-most-fundamental-molecules"},"modified":"2023-08-30T13:37:21","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T18:37:21","slug":"new-research-sheds-light-on-the-formation-of-one-of-natures-most-fundamental-molecules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/new-research-sheds-light-on-the-formation-of-one-of-natures-most-fundamental-molecules","title":{"rendered":"New Research Sheds Light on the Formation of One of Nature\u2019s Most Fundamental Molecules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-research-sheds-light-on-the-formation-of-one-of-natures-most-fundamental-molecules2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Life runs on ribosomes. Every cell across the globe requires ribosomes to convert genetic data into the vital proteins required for the organism\u2019s operation, and, subsequently, for the production of more ribosomes. However, scientists still lack a clear understanding of how these essential nanomachines are assembled.<\/p>\n<p>Now, new high-resolution images of the large ribosomal subunit are shedding light on how arguably nature\u2019s most fundamental molecule coalesces in human cells. The findings, published in <em>Science<\/em>, bring us one step closer to a complete picture of ribosome assembly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe now have a pretty good idea of how the large ribosomal subunit is assembled in humans,\u201d says <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/rockefeller-university\/amp\/\">Rockefeller\u2019s<\/a> Sebastian Klinge. \u201cWe still have quite a few gaps in our understanding, but we certainly now have a much better idea than we had before.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life runs on ribosomes. Every cell across the globe requires ribosomes to convert genetic data into the vital proteins required for the organism\u2019s operation, and, subsequently, for the production of more ribosomes. However, scientists still lack a clear understanding of how these essential nanomachines are assembled. Now, new high-resolution images of the large ribosomal subunit [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}