#ribosome

[rooted-clangen]

Moon 9

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Oh lordy it's a gathering.... canon characters for now, cameos will come <3 List of cats below the cut lol

Emberstar: Waxclan. Black & white w/ blue eyes. She/her Cinderstar: Screechclan. Cream & red w/ blue-pink eyes. He/him. Clawstar: Coastclan. Blue black with yellow-orange eyes. She/her. Rainstar: Makoclan. White & brown tabby with grey eyes. She/her.

Columbinechirp: Deputy, Screechclan. Grey & black with green-blue eyes. They/them. Famine: Deputy, Waxclan. White with grey head and red eyes. They/them. Yarrowheather: Deputy, Makoclan. Cream and red tabby with ruddy eyes. He/him. Ribosome: Deputy, Coastclan. Brown and orange bengal with teal eyes. He/him. Brightpaw: SC app. Cream and pink-red spotted with blue eyes. He/him. Bellfall: WC warrior. Orange with stripes and blue eyes. He/him. Reliance: MC warrior. White with brown patches. She/her. Frisk: CC warrior. Brown with dark brown stripe. She/her. Greypaw: CC app. Dark grey and black with orange eyes. She/her.

[hellsitegenetics]

How do you feel about aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase enzyme?

HOIUUOOUUOOUOHHH IM CATALYZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[sonnettheseacoat]

go my free ribosomes

[nixsolari]

rough sketches from my doodle book

the eye in the very top left piece was the last part I added to the page, and it lined up perfectly where the amino acid from the ribosome made it look like the glimmer in the eye which I thought was a kinda cute coincidence

[bpod-bpod]

Lighting a Fuse

Proteins are tiny biological machines that do vital jobs in our cells and tissues. They’re made to very precise instructions in a sort of 'protein factory' called the ribosome. But the ribosomes themselves are made in the nucleolus – a tiny organ, or organelle, that is fairly unusual. Nucleoli don’t have membranes, leaving their wobbly structures more influenced by the stresses and strains inside cells. Here researchers investigate how these forces affect several gloopy nucleoli that have fused together (highlighted in purple). Denser, more viscoelastic, regions inside (green) also merge, although more slowly. What does it mean that these vital organelles slosh around our cells? The team are investigating other factors that affect the fluidity of the nucleolus, which may have huge implications for our understanding of cellular life in health and disease.

Written by John Ankers

Video from work by Holly H. Cheng and colleagues

Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA

Video originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS), May 2025

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[theperfectquestion]

You can't really scare or impress a biologist because they can always just compare the potential scary / impressive thing to a ribosome and then quickly come to the entirely sensible conclusion that the ribosome beats it.

For example:

Ooh look at this new technology wow it will impact so many lives - not like the ribosome though.

Augh an automated drone is going to bomb our building - ah but this is just a tiny subset of the things a ribosome can accomplish.

See?

[the-worm-from-the-string]

Some things can be weirdly cool once you actually understand what those complicated college level sources are trying to tell you about them

[just-somehuman]

@colourless-hydrangeas tagging you bc ye ✨

I PRESENT TO YOU: SEXY RIBOSOME ART

pls what am I doing with my life