Scientists in Japan have found a way to create solar-powered tissues, which may lead to breakthroughs in growing organs and ...

Growing wood directly from stem cells could offer an alternative to cutting threatened hardwood trees, but it isn't clear if ...

Animal and plant cells have different energy-producing structures inside them. For animals, that’s mitochondria , which convert chemical energy from food into a form that our cells can use.

Rice is a staple food crop for more than half the world's population, but most farmers don't grow high-yielding varieties ...

Established in 2016, the Human Cell Atlas (HCA) consortium set out to create a comprehensive biological map of cells within the human body. Now progressing into a data integration phase ...

Within all complex, multicellular living systems such as plants and humans, there exists a set of genetic elements that can ...

Solar-powered animal cells Researchers combine chloroplasts from algae with hamster cells Date: October 30, 2024 Source: University of Tokyo Summary: Energy-making chloroplasts from algae have ...

For example, plants need boron, which is taken into the cells by molecules known as the boric acid channel. But how do the proteins that form the channel make it to the plasma membrane?

Organelles are found in both plant and human cells and their role is crucial to the healthy functioning of these species. They process essential proteins and lipids before secreting them or moving ...

Shaik’s identification method, known as integrative taxonomy, merges traditional observational techniques with modern DNA ...

An ambitious plan to map all 37 trillion cells in the human body is transforming understanding of how our bodies work, scientists report. The received wisdom said we were built from around 200 ...