Scientists have developed a membrane that can be tuned to selectively enhance or suppress ion flow, mimicking how living ...

With intensifying global warming and climate change, drought has become a major threat to global agriculture, impacting crop ...

In animals and yeast, CLASP proteins are microtubule plus-end tracking proteins (+TIPS) involved in the regulation of microtubule plus-end dynamics and stabilization. Here we show that mutations in ...

Caught in the act 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 ...

Plant and animal cells are both extremely important to the survival of millions of species and without them, life couldn’t exist. Although they share a lot of similarities, they have quite a few ...

Microtubules are critical for cell division, ensuring that two new cells can be generated from a parent cell. And in neurons, microtubules form highways for transport over long distances.

Jung-Youn Lee, a University of Delaware professor of plant molecular and cellular biology and the interim director of the Delaware Biotechnology Institute, is researching cell-to-cell communication in ...

They soon observed that some cells weren't dividing according to the "shortest wall rule," which normally governs plant cell division. While plant cells are expected to build the smallest – and ...

Plant and animal stem cells both rely on the cytoskeleton to divide properly, but a new Stanford study finds that they use them in opposite ways – while animal cells pull on the cytoskeleton ...