While humans can escape the heat by seeking shade or shedding layers, plants remain rooted in place. So how do they survive ...

Seeds provide most of the calories humanity eats, yet the cells that decide how big each seed becomes have remained a mystery ...

Scientists have successfully grown over 400 different types of nerve cells from stem cells in the lab—a groundbreaking step toward replicating the complexity of the human brain.

Ford Motor said Tuesday it believes its planned $3 billion Michigan electric vehicle battery plant, which is 60% complete, ...

Plants produce a wide diversity of compounds. Broadly, these are separated into primary metabolites, which are necessary for ...

New 2D semiconductors offer fast charge transport and solar cell potential Simulations reveal previously unknown 2D phthalocyanine monolayers combining structural stability, high mobility, and direct ...

We have the first video of a plant cell wall being built Plant cells without a cell wall are fragile, so it's hard to image its construction.

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

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 ...

But plant cells have evolved some wild features that set them apart from animal cells. In this episode of Crash Course Botany, we’ll ask: are plants more than the sum of their cells?

Although plant cell-based bioproduction has advanced considerably during the past several years, certain elements remain largely unexplored.

Balancing the pressure: How plant cells protect their vacuoles by Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology Editors' notes ...