Clothing that adapts to one's needs and senses the external habitat. A lunar lava tunnel that uses bacteria, plants and fungi ...

Find out what animal and plant cells are and learn what the function of the cell wall and the nucleus is in this KS3 Bitesize biology article.

Programmed cell death (PCD) is an integral part of plant development and of responses to abiotic stress or pathogens. Although the morphology of plant PCD is, in some cases, well characterised and ...

Sexual plant reproduction: Male and female parts 'talk' in the same way as do cells in your brain Date: March 17, 2011 Source: Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia Summary: Scientist have discovered ...

We describe a method for rapid quantitative characterization of genetic plant parts using transient expression in protoplasts and dual luciferase outputs.

Plant biologists have succeeded for the first time in visualizing how egg cells in plants divides unequally (asymmetric cell division) after being fertilized. The direction of this asymmetric cell ...

Most parts of the cell are replaceable if damaged, but DNA is a crucial exception. At higher radiation doses, DNA becomes garbled and cells die quickly.