In developing hearts, cells shuffle around, bumping into each other to find their place, and the stakes are high: pairing ...

Without plants on land, humans could not live on Earth. From mosses to ferns to grasses to trees, plants are our food, fodder and timber. All this diversity emerged from an algal ancestor that ...

The way we study plant cells is expanding—literally—thanks to new research from Kevin Cox, an assistant professor of biology ...

A study published last month in Nature Plants describes shared biochemical pathways involved in vitamin B6 levels that link ...

Messenger RNA can travel between different types of stem cells through tunnel-like structures, as revealed by a new study. By studying interactions between mouse and human stem cells, they discovered ...

Red blood cells carry oxygen from the lungs to every other organ, and blood-forming stem cells must make about 200 billion ...

Palaeontologist Riley Black is back with a thrilling guide to how animals and plants co-evolved over millennia ...

“This is biology’s cookbook with which the ... if we wait a day and we show the animal that same object, these cells no longer respond, which is really wild.” 5:47 Brain Repair Centre ...

Cell migration affects all morphogenetic processes and contributes to numerous diseases, including cancer and cardiovascular disease. Cell migration begins with protrusion of the cell membrane ...

Our business is nature: specifically, the environment, animal health and welfare, ecology, conservation, agriculture and food production. We cover everything from biodiversity and agri-tech, through ...

We thank Dr. Martha L. Orozco-Cárdenas (UCR) for her help in establishing tobacco plant cell culture growth protocols in the lab as well. We thank Dr. Takehide Kato (Nara Institute of Science and ...