Here’s something we should all totally get behind: strangers drawing strangers Facebook profile pictures. Called Selfless Portraits, it’s an incredible art project that allows random people to draw ...
Sketchpad: Free online drawing application for all ages. Create digital artwork to share online and export to popular image formats JPEG, PNG, SVG, and PDF.
Sketch Mobile is a drawing tool that takes advantage of the new capabilities presented in modern mobile browsers; including multi-touch, the accelerometer, and the gyroscope; providing a fun & novel environment to express yourself in colorful ways! Sketch Mobile was commissioned by Google as part of the Mobile Chrome Experiments released at Google I/O 2012. Sketch Mobile utilizes multi-touch ...
Researchers have developed a new microscopy technique to observe how ribosomes function in cells. With this method, they can monitor individual ribosomes as they convert mRNA into proteins. The ...
A new technique reveals ribosome cooperativity, providing new insights into protein production. Researchers from Marvin Tanenbaum’s group at the Hubrecht Institute (Utrecht, Netherlands) have ...
Ribosomes, the cell's protein-making factories, consume large amounts of energy as they build the proteins that keep cells alive and functioning. When cells experience stress—such as lack of nutrients ...
Medical Xpress: Study links reduced ribosome levels to vulnerability in developing brain cells
A team led by UT Southwestern Medical Center scientists has identified a specific stage of neurodevelopment when differentiating neural cells produce fewer ribosomes, which are responsible for making ...
Phys.org: 'Molecular movie' capturing ribosome assembly shows how cells build life-sustaining protein factories