A new biosensor developed at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory detects the emerging presence of fungus ...

Findings from a new University of Cincinnati study have reshaped the fundamental understanding of how a certain cell ...

Scientists discovered that mitochondria inside plant cells can pull oxygen away from chloroplasts, revealing a hidden mechanism that may help plants adapt to stress.

Prof. Yu Shen's team at Nanjing Forestry University approached this question from a unique perspective—viewing plant cells as ...

Plants constantly juggle oxygen inside their cells, but scientists have now discovered a surprising twist in how that balance works. Researchers at the University of Helsinki found that ...

Mitochondria in plants can be inherited from the father more often than expected. The findings come from Wageningen University & Research (WUR), the ...

A new study from the University of Helsinki reveals how plant mitochondria draw molecular oxygen away from chloroplasts, an ...

Researchers have discovered that lysosomes, traditionally viewed as cellular waste bins, sense mechanical forces and reposition themselves to the cell's edge to trigger the formation of leader cells ...

Can the bend of a banana give us insight into cancer? What does the shape of a rice grain have to do with infertility? The proteins that give plants their shape and structure are also involved in ...

For the first time, researchers have directly visualized how newly formed cellular organelles leave the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and transition onto microtubule tracks inside living cells. This new ...

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