An international research team has uncovered a surprising way compartments within cells work together to defend themselves ...

For the first time, a plant specimen has been cryopreserved and placed into the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance’s Frozen Zoo, a step scientists believe could help the endangered scrub oak species ...

If measured from beginning to end, the DNA in our cells is too long to fit into the cell's nucleus, explaining why it must be ...

'Thawed strawberries naturally become softer and juicier due to the breakdown of cell walls during freezing,' says Jason.

Plants produce a wide diversity of compounds. Broadly, these are separated into primary metabolites, which are necessary for ...

Scientists have gained an atomic-level view of plant cells, getting to know the metacaspase 9 enzyme in the process.

Abstract Three hundred and thirteen extracts from 136 Brazilian plant species belonging to 36 families were tested for their suppressive activity on phytohemaglutinin (PHA) stimulated proliferation of ...

A light freeze is possible when air temperatures drop to 28-32 degrees. The air temperature right by the ground may be a little colder than this. During a light freeze, some of the water inside of a ...

Once the freezes are gone, it’s safe to start planting! But how do you know when that moment arrives in Indiana? A common rule of thumb is to wait until after Easter — but that can still be risky some ...

So, Lam’s team developed their own, custom-built imaging platform. The cells that star in the team’s wall-building video were protoplasts of Arabidopsis, a small flowering plant belonging to ...

LORDSTOWN — Five years to the day that General Motors and South Korea’s LG Energy Solution announced a partnership to build electric-vehicle battery cells at a plant in Ohio, top executives ...