Scientists in Japan have found a way to create solar-powered tissues, which may lead to breakthroughs in growing organs and ...

Plant cells have several structures not found in other eukaryotes. In particular, organelles called chloroplasts allow plants to capture the energy of the Sun in energy-rich molecules; cell walls ...

Scientists in Japan have created hybrid plant-animal cells, essentially making animal cells that can gain energy from ...

Plant vs Animal Cells: Lysosomes Lysosomes are membrane-bound organelles that are found within cells. Their main role is to ...

Hamster cells capable of photosynthesis: this could transform medicine. A Japanese team successfully achieved this feat, ...

Plants grow taller and wider with cambium stem cells, supporting strength, stability, and environmental resilience.

Using a new method to isolate and reprogram plant cells into other cell types, Penn State biologists explored how banding ...

The ability to genetically engineer plants is largely thanks to a microscopic helper: a bacterium called Agrobacterium ...

Each component of a cell has its own function. Animal and plant cells differ and they have similarities. Nucleus, cell membrane, cytoplasm and mitochondria are four cell components that are found ...

Gilroy, S. & Trewavas, A. Signal processing and transduction in plant cells: the end of the beginning? Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology 2, 307–314 (2001) doi:10.1038/35067109. Surpin ...

Decomposing garbage may seem useless. But it‘s actually going to help generate energy at the St. Louis County landfill in ...