The Molecular Dance of Life

Your body is running on a secret code, and it's being read millions of times a second inside

every cell. Think of your DNA as the master blueprint, too precious to leave the cell's

nucleus. When your body needs to build something, it makes a temporary copy called RNA.

That's transcription. This RNA message then travels to a molecular factory called a ribosome.

The ribosome reads the RNA in three-letter "words" called codons. Each codon is a command for a specific

building block, an amino acid. The ribosome links these amino acids into a chain,

which folds into a protein. This is translation. From a simple code to complex proteins

that do everything, this tiny molecular dance is literally what keeps you alive.