So how does protein synthesis make hair? If you've looked at the activity (or even the text version of the activity), you know how a section of DNA instructs a cell how to make a protein.

Shen’s images showed that when the RQC latched onto a ribosomal ... “That was very strange because we thought all protein synthesis had ended. The small subunit had gone away; the mRNA had gone away.

Translation entails ribosomes reading a gene’s messenger RNA transcript to generate a protein. Image credit: ART-ur/ Shutterstock. Textbook descriptions of translation—the fundamental process of ...