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

Scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed the first-ever method of detecting ribonucleic acid, or RNA, ...

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

Biology — the science of life, living things and the processes that keep us all running — links up in essential ways with ...

Purdue University scientists have discovered a key mechanism that regulates how plants develop chloroplasts, essential ...

Over time, plants have evolved various strategies to defend against herbivores. A new study uncovers how these plant defense ...

The team recorded 24 hours of the cellular construction process, revealing surprising new details about how plant cell walls ...

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 ...

as depicted in classical biology textbooks." Cellulose is the most abundant biopolymer—large molecules naturally produced by living organisms—on Earth. A carbohydrate that is the primary structural ...

To make the cells fluorescent and detectable by the ... a lab technician in the Department of Plant Biology. Animations for young students inspired to learn more about plants are available ...

The working group headed by Professor Nowack at the Institute of Microbial Cell Biology is researching how cells and their endosymbionts have adapted to and evolved in symbiosis with each other ...

This was a mighty challenge. The cells kept dying. Paleontologist Kyoko Hagino of Kochi University tried for twelve years until she finally cracked it with a cousin of the original organism.