How to Use ribosome in a Sentence

ribosome

noun
  • Other loops force the ribosome to back up and then move forward again.
    — Carl Zimmer New York Times, Star Tribune, 15 Oct. 2020
  • Then the question is whether the full parts kit will assemble into a ribosome.
    — Byrobert F. Service, science.org, 27 Oct. 2022
  • But there’s more to the nucleolus than just making ribosomes.
    — Joanna Klein, New York Times, 20 May 2018
  • The proteins made by the ribosome then go off to do their jobs in making and sustaining the organism.
    — Philip Ball, Quanta Magazine, 18 June 2026
  • To do that, the researchers decided to remove isoleucine from all of the proteins in the small subunit of the ribosome.
    — ArsTechnica, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Now, Zhu and his team need to make the remaining components of a mirror-image ribosome.
    — Byrobert F. Service, science.org, 27 Oct. 2022
  • So, the ribosome provides a very stringent test of whether engineering out an amino acid can be tolerated by cells.
    — ArsTechnica, 30 Apr. 2026
  • The more colliding ribosomes there are, the more ZAK signals.
    — Dan Samorodnitsky, Quanta Magazine, 14 July 2025
  • To find out more about that role, ribosome profiling was developed in 2009.
    — Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 14 Jan. 2018
  • Acting like a factory assembly line, the ribosome then links amino acids together, one by one, to build a protein.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 29 Aug. 2025
  • That each ribosome focused on proteins crucial for a certain function took the team by surprise, Barna says.
    — Mitch Leslie, Science | AAAS, 21 June 2017
  • This mimicked the way the protein naturally folds bit by bit as it is produced in the cell, by a protein-making organelle called a ribosome.
    — Sarah Lewin Frasier, Scientific American, 2 Feb. 2015
  • The worm cytoplasm, measurements showed, was around 50 times more crowded with ribosomes than that of Holt’s cultured cells.
    — Quanta Magazine, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Binding to ribosomes and nucleolin, which are crucial for protein synthesis.
    — New Atlas, 13 July 2025
  • When food is restricted, or a metabolic pathway is silenced or slowed down, nucleoli shrink, making fewer ribosomes, and cells live longer.
    — Joanna Klein, New York Times, 20 May 2018
  • Before Balon, hibernation factors had only been seen in empty ribosomes.
    — Dan Samorodnitsky, Quanta Magazine, 5 June 2024
  • Their target is the ribosome—a manufacturing plant found in all living cells, which reads the information encoded in genes and uses that to build proteins.
    — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 20 Feb. 2020
  • Frank is famed for developing a type of microscope that revealed the workings of ribosomes — the miniature factories that make proteins inside living cells.
    — Tom Avril, Philly.com, 4 Oct. 2017
  • But the approach doesn’t work well when proteins are exceptionally large, work in complexes such as the ribosome, or can’t be crystallized, as is the case with many proteins that sit in cell membranes.
    — Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, 21 Oct. 2020
  • Nearby, a table was covered with large-scale plastic models of ribosomes, the amorphous, cellular protein factories that are essential to life.
    — Tom Avril, Philly.com, 4 Oct. 2017
  • Redesigning the ribosome To give their project a focus, the researchers decided to start engineering an isoleucine-free ribosome.
    — ArsTechnica, 30 Apr. 2026
  • In modern life, protein synthesis depends on an immensely complex molecular machine called the ribosome.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 29 Aug. 2025
  • The mRNA is then read by a piece of molecular machinery called the ribosome, which constructs the protein — a process called translation.
    — Philip Ball, Quanta Magazine, 18 June 2026
  • In life, messenger RNA carries the plans of proteins from genes in a cell’s chromosomes to tiny factories, called ribosomes, where those proteins are then made.
    — The Economist, 27 Feb. 2018
  • The lipid spheres carrying the mRNA enter the ribosome, a component of human cells whose main function is making proteins.
    — Dallas News, 27 Aug. 2021
  • For example, the mitochondria is responsible for energy conversion, while the ribosome is the place of protein synthesis in the cell.
    — Anna Powers, Forbes, 30 Aug. 2021
  • As a preliminary test, the team did an isoleucine-to-valine swap for 50 different individual genes that contribute proteins to the ribosome.
    — ArsTechnica, 30 Apr. 2026
  • The ribosomes could not parse some mutations and trepidatiously tiptoed over physical roadblocks created by more severe damage.
    — Dan Samorodnitsky, Quanta Magazine, 14 July 2025
  • For Glass, an obvious red line is for scientists to refrain from making a mirror ribosome, a biological machine found in a cell’s cytoplasm that makes proteins.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The mRNA in the vaccines enters the cell's cytoplasm, attaches to a ribosome, and is translated into the spike protein.
    — Stacy Ryburn, Arkansas Online, 29 Apr. 2021

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