Some vacuoles have specialized functions, and plant cells can have more than one type of vacuole. Vacuoles are related to lysosomes and share some functions with these structures; for instance ...

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

There are many different types of cells in animals ... They therefore support the plant. Dissolved sugars and amino acids can be transported both up and down the stem. Companion cells, adjacent ...

Advanced techniques are allowing scientists to witness the process where plant cells generate cellulose fibers.

Specialised cell type Animal or plant cell? Function Features of cell ... the cell Red blood cell Animal Carries oxygen to body tissues that require it Contains the protein haemoglobin, which ...

The cells that make up the walls of the finest of all lymphatic vessels have a lobate, oak leaf-like shape that makes them particularly resilient to changes in fluid volume. A similar cell shape also ...

The two main types are the protein storage vacuoles of ... Signal processing and transduction in plant cells: the end of the beginning? Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology 2, 307–314 (2001 ...