Plants grow from something unexpected—carbon drawn in through tiny pores called stomata. At Stanford, researchers are ...

There are three major classes of plant cells that can then differentiate to form the tissue structures of roots, stems, and leaves. (The three distinct types of plant cells are classified ...

Fourteen cells from the Arabidopsis thaliana plant were imaged every six minutes for about 24 hours as they regenerated their cell walls.The glow shows cellulose, chains of sugar molecules, which ...

Hollywood doctor Ernst von Schwarz says a healthy life to 120 will be normal soon thanks to stem cells he already gives to celebrities. The longest-lived human was Jeanne Calment, 122.

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 ...

Cells are the smallest unit of life and the building blocks for all organisms. Each component of a cell has its own function. Animal and plant cells differ and they have similarities.

Life and death are traditionally viewed as opposites. But the emergence of new multicellular life-forms from the cells of a dead organism introduces a “third state” that lies beyond the traditional ...

Built from the bottom up, synthetic cells and other creations are starting to come together and could soon test the boundaries of life.

W hat can soap bubbles tell us about cell division? More than you might think: in 1886 Leo Errera noted that bubbles in soap resembled dividing cells. He thought the shape of the bubbles could predict ...

In new research that made the cover of the journal The Plant Cell, UD researchers found that the protein — PDLP5 — that helps guard plants from the invasion of viruses and bacteria has not one, but ...

Inside every cell in the body, millions of protein molecules carry out the tasks of life: They are the cellular equivalent of bricks and beams, providing structure and support. They’re also the cell’s ...