Scientists have conducted research showing in precise detail how chemicals bind to mast cells to cause itch, and the scientists figured out the detailed structure of receptor proteins on the ...

Lam has studied the process at the heart of the enzyme's pivotal role in plant health—a phenomenon known as programmed cell death or cell suicide—for the past 30 years.

Without detailed structure data, scientists have struggled to understand how the protein governs plant protection, Zhou says.

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.

Purdue University scientists have discovered a key mechanism that regulates how plants develop chloroplasts, essential structures responsible for the photosynthesis that sustains life on Earth by ...