A eukaryotic viral internal ribosome entry site (IRES) element is described that binds both bacterial and eukaryotic ribosomes and initiates translation in both, demonstrating that RNA structure ...

Review Published: 15 May 2009 Translation of the radio- and chemo-inducible TNFerade vector to the treatment of human cancers R R Weichselbaum & D Kufe Cancer Gene Therapy 16, 609–619 (2009 ...

This turns the problem of translation from one of linguistics into one of mathematics. So the problem for the Google team is to find a way of accurately mapping one vector space onto the other.

In September, a team of Google engineers showed how to translate one language into another by finding the linear transformation that maps one to the other.