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

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.

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

Mitochondria close mitochondriaTiny parts of cells floating in the cytoplasm where energy is released from glucose. The glucose comes from food. This is how you make a model plant cell.

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 ...

Plants are active life-forms down to their very cells. Within seconds of light exposure ... other living thing,” says Roger Hangarter, a plant biologist at Indiana University Bloomington ...

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 ...