Plant cells without walls, known as protoplasts, are very fragile, and it has been difficult to keep them alive under a ...

Let's take a look at how to observe cells under a microscope ... on the slide and stick it on the microscope. Go find those animal cells! Unlike the plant cells, animal cells are soft and fleshy.

Imaging wall-less plant cells every six minutes for 24 hours revealed how the cells build their protective barriers.

Rutgers’ biophysicists, bioengineers and plant biologists capture first live images of cellulose construction leading to ...

Dr. James Lim, associate professor of pediatrics at UBC’s faculty of medicine, observes pediatric cancer cells grown in a ...

The microscope-generated video images show protoplasts—cells with their walls removed—of cabbage's cousin, the flowering plant Arabidopsis ... and tracking of newly synthesized cellulose under ...

and plant biologists delight in reminding others of these plant-derived breakthroughs. The first cell observed under a microscope, back in the mid-1660s by physicist Robert Hooke, was a plant cell in ...

In a groundbreaking study on the synthesis of cellulose – a major constituent of all plant cell walls – a team of Rutgers University-New Brunswick researchers has captured images of the microscopic ...