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 ...

New research from Northern Arizona University points to the idea that, under some conditions, plants can "curate" their ...

Lanthanides are a class of rare earth elements that in many countries are added to fertilizer as micronutrients to stimulate plant growth. But little is known about how they are absorbed by plants or ...

Hemifusomes are fused vesicles, or sacs of fluid, that were previously unknown to exist inside cells. They were discovered ...

A newly found organelle, the hemifusome, helps manage cellular recycling. It may play a role in inherited diseases and open ...

NEET 2026 aspirants should strategically prioritize Biology chapters, as it constitutes 50% of the exam. Human Physiology and ...

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 ...