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

Mitochondria are cell organelles surrounded by a double membrane. In addition to numerous essential functions in the ...

How different plants manage water stress may reshape climate models. Scientists now say soil drying isn’t one-size-fits-all.

Plasmodesmata are only present in plant and algae cells and are not present in animal cells. Lysosomes are membrane-bound ...

Picture a living cell as if it were a city. If you were the urban planner for this (very little, very alive) city, one of the things you would have to decide is how to allocate space for different ...

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 ...

Eukaryotes are thought to have originated through a process known as endosymbiosis, in which an ancestral prokaryotic cell engulfed another, forming a mutually beneficial relationship. Over time, the ...

Just like our heart and brain and kidneys all have a specific job all of the parts of a cell have a different job – these parts of the cells are called organelles. Plant and animal cells have a lot of ...

See our animal cell model post for more about the organelles found in both types of cells. Features of a plant cell Cell wall - a rigid coating made of cellulose, which supports the cell. Vacuole - ...

Every plant, animal, and person is a rich microcosm of tiny, specialized cells. These cells are worlds unto themselves, each with their own unique parts and processes that elude the naked eye. Being ...

Plants’ ability to sense light and temperature, and their ability to adapt to climate change, hinges on free-forming structures in their cells whose function was, until now, a mystery. For the first ...