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 ...

Using a new method to isolate and reprogram plant cells into other cell types, biologists explored how banding patterns that increase the stability of plant cell walls are created and how their ...

In a groundbreaking study on the synthesis of cellulose -- a major constituent of all plant cell walls -- a team has captured images of the microscopic process of cell-wall building continuously over ...

Traffic lights signal to cars and buses when to stop, slow and go. Much like traffic lights, plant cells send signals to each other to perform photosynthesis to grow or fight off destructive viruses ...

LA JOLLA (August 19, 2025)—Nearly everything you know about plants was first discovered in a plant you’ve likely never heard of. Arabidopsis thaliana, also known as thale cress, is a small, flowering ...

To accomplish this, the plant relies on two groups of proteins that silence gene expression: the Polycomb repressive complexes PRC1 and PRC2. These complexes modify the structure of chromatin—the DNA ...

In a discovery three decades in the making, scientists at Rutgers and Brookhaven National Laboratory have acquired detailed knowledge about the internal structures and mode of regulation for a ...

March 2026In order to understand biological processes, it is often necessary to first decipher the three-dimensional structure of the molecules ...