In a discovery three decades in the making, scientists at Rutgers and Brookhaven National Laboratory have acquired detailed ...

New research from the Sainsbury Laboratory at the University of Cambridge has shed light on how plants precisely control ...

A new part of an ocean plant cell has been discovered that might revolutionize farming one day. The structure can take nitrogen and convert it into the ingredient that helps all organisms grow.

So far, all quantitatively defined gene circuits have been produced in unicellular organisms (for example, bacteria and yeast) or cells in ... of synthetic plant genetic parts, along with an ...

And while radiation and other types of DNA damage can cause tumours in plants, mutated cells are generally not able to spread from one part of the plant to another as cancers do, thanks to the ...

Xiao Jun from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology (IGDB) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has discovered a new way in which temperature can influence the fate of plant cells by ...