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

In a breakthrough with promising real-world applications, a team of Rutgers biophysicists, bioengineers, and plant biologists ...

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

To use a light microscope to examine animal or plant cells. To make observations and draw scale diagrams of cells. Turn the coarse focus so that the stage is as close to the objective lens as ...

Cellulose, the most abundant biopolymer, is utilized to make a wide range of products like clothes and paper. Also, it helps ...

The microscope-generated video images show protoplasts—cells with their walls removed—of cabbage's cousin, the flowering plant Arabidopsis, chaotically sprouting filaments of cellulose fibers ...

With the invention of the microscope at the beginning of the seventeenth ... Hints at the idea that the cell is the basic component of living organisms emerged well before 1838–39, which was ...