It has been claimed that because most of our DNA is active, it must be important, but now human-plant hybrid cells have been ...

Quantum effects are no longer confined to ultra-cold chips and vacuum chambers. For the first time, researchers have deliberately engineered a controllable quantum bit inside living cells and tied it ...

The Cultured Hub, a biotech facility run by Swiss food industry giants, has aded plant cell culture technology for coffee, ...

Researchers from Shandong Agricultural University, led by professors Zhang Xiansheng (second from left) and Su Yinghua (second from right), have revealed how a single plant cell can develop into a ...

From morning glories spiraling up fence posts to grape vines corkscrewing through arbors, twisted growth is a problem-solving ...

Scientists have long known that mutations in certain genes affecting microtubules in plants can cause plants to grow in a twisting manner. In most cases, these are “null mutations,” meaning the ...

Plants form a critical model for understanding regulated cell death (RCD) as part of their sophisticated immune responses. In the ongoing evolutionary arms ...

Balanophora is a plant that abandoned photosynthesis long ago and now lives entirely as a parasite on tree roots, hidden in ...

The bacterial pathogen Xanthomonas citri, which causes canker disease in citrus trees, activates selected parts of the fruit ...

Some experts think “xenobot” cells that reorganize themselves after death signify a form of consciousness—while others ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Purdue University researchers found that a subset of epidermal cells in plant leaves serves as early responders to chemical cues from bacterial pathogens and communicate this ...