A new process that is essential to the synthesis of cellular proteins has been discovered by an international research team. The process known as splicing causes the cell's protein-making ...

Protein synthesis refers to the process by which ... eukaryotic mRNA often undergoes post-transcriptional modifications, such as splicing, capping, and polyadenylation, before it is exported ...

Specifically, the sections of DNA that encode protein production ... are known as introns. During splicing, which occurs after transcription (i.e., the synthesis of RNA from a DNA template ...