Plants know how to defend themselves against pathogenic microorganisms. In turn, pathogens have sensors to detect such ...

Scientists have uncovered details of the protective layer that surrounds the fine protrusions of cells ... including cryogenic electron tomography and electron microscopy, fluorescence microscopy ...

The first-ever synthetic multicellular organism is ready to come to life after a Sydney breakthrough 10 years in the making.

A colorized electron microscope image of a tomato leaf stoma ... a type of organelle found in plant cells. While these resemble the mitochondria found in animal cells, chloroplasts are much ...

Fifty years since its discovery, scientists have finally worked out how a molecular machine found in mitochondria allows us ...

In a breakthrough with promising real-world applications, a team of Rutgers biophysicists, bioengineers, and plant biologists ...

Plant cells without walls, known as protoplasts, are very fragile, and it has been difficult to keep them alive under a ...

The microscope-generated video images show protoplasts -- cells with their walls removed -- of cabbage's cousin, the flowering plant Arabidopsis, chaotically sprouting filaments of cellulose ...

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