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 ...

Transfer the cheek cells to the slide by rubbing the swab all over it. Drop the cover slip on the slide and stick it on the microscope. Go find those animal cells! Unlike the plant cells ...

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 ...

The image sequences provide new insights into how this cell structure forms, which could lead to innovations in plant-derived products such as renewable biofuels. Cell walls are made mostly of ...

Plant cells are surrounded by an intricately structured protective coat called the cell wall. It’s built of cellulose microfibrils intertwined with polysaccharides like hemicellulose or pectin.

The new technique is a second-generation clock that, as the name suggests, uses easy-to-access cells from inside the cheek to quantify molecular aging. “We also demonstrate that specific methylation ...

The cells driving the tissue are a plant-animal hybrid that can gain energy from sunlight in the same way that plants do, the researchers explain in the study. Both animals and plants derive ...