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

Plant cell biology is the study of all aspects of plant cells. It is particularly concerned with structure, growth, division, signalling, differentiation and death of plant cells. By inducible and ...

Aquaporins are proteins that rapidly transport water across cell membranes while excluding salt. They are critical for maintaining the right balance of water inside and outside cells and for ...

Inox Solar joins Indian solar manufacturer Jupiter International in building a solar cell and module assembly plant in the eastern state of Odisha. Image: Raphael Cruz via Unsplash. Indian solar ...

Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education for Advanced Catalysis Materials, College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua 321004, People’s Republic of China ...

In animal cells, vacuoles are generally small and help sequester waste products. In plant and fungal cells, vacuoles help maintain cell structure. All eukaryotic cells have a cell membrane, also known ...

Eukaryotic cells generally contain several membrane-bound organelles, including the nucleus, mitochondria, the ER, the Golgi apparatus and lysosomes (Figure 1). Plant cells also contain large vacuoles ...

Membrane proteins have been found to contain hidden pathways that can be exploited to alter cell behavior, potentially leading to the development of new or improved drugs.

New pathways discovered for drugs to act on cells Previously unknown access points in cell membrane proteins have been discovered, enabling laboratory-developed drugs to modify cell function Date ...

The Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Science, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Edmond J. Safra Campus at Givat Ram, Jerusalem 9190401, Israel ...

Human biological fluids contain about 3,000 individual microRNA, releasing from normal or tumor cells. MicroRNA circulate ... to evaluate the influence of plasma storage conditions on stability ...