Plant cells without walls, known as protoplasts, are very fragile, and it has been difficult to keep them alive under a ...

Nearly 150 years ago, scientists began to imagine how information might flow through the brain based on the shapes of neurons ...

In a breakthrough with promising real-world applications, a team of Rutgers biophysicists, bioengineers, and plant biologists ...

Plants know how to defend themselves against pathogenic microorganisms. In turn, pathogens have sensors to detect such ...

Brewer’s yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) under an electron microscope. It’s set to become ... That produces millions of genetically tweaked yeast cells, like evolution at warp-speed, to ...

Imaging wall-less plant cells every six minutes for 24 hours revealed how the cells build their protective barriers.

The thylakoids contain the light-harvesting complex, including pigments such as chlorophyll, as well as the electron transport chains used in photosynthesis (Figure 2). Plant cell walls are ...