Plant cells have several structures not found in other eukaryotes. In particular, organelles called chloroplasts allow plants to capture the energy of the Sun in energy-rich molecules; cell walls ...

Scientists in Japan have created hybrid plant-animal cells, essentially making animal cells that can gain energy from ...

Each component of a cell has its own function. Animal and plant cells differ and they have similarities. Nucleus, cell membrane, cytoplasm and mitochondria are four cell components that are found ...

Plant cell biology is the study of all aspects of plant cells. It is particularly concerned with structure, growth, division, signalling, differentiation and death of plant cells. The authors ...

Most research on plant stem cells focuses on the tips of roots and shoots, where growth occurs in height. But biologist ...

The ability to genetically engineer plants is largely thanks to a microscopic helper: a bacterium called Agrobacterium ...

A team has clarified how in plants the boric acid channels, the conduits for the necessary element boron, are transported to the plasma membrane.

Mimosa pudica, known as touch-me-not plants, quickly move their leaves in response to touch and new research reveals how they do it. In a study led by Masatsugu Toyota at Saitama University in ...

Protalix ( (PLX) ) has issued an update. Protalix BioTherapeutics is set to present promising data from their phase I trial of PRX-115, a ...

Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles is electrifying the Multivan and California with a new, progressive plug-in hybrid all-wheel ...

With the nights drawing in, the weather taking a turn and things getting altogether gloomy, it’s all of a sudden official: ...