There will soon be more time to spend outside enjoying the luxury of your balcony or even your beautiful courtyard garden. So ...

Chemists at Emory University invented a reaction to streamline the total synthesis of a compound, phaeocaulisin A, extracted from a plant used for centuries in traditional Chinese medicine. In ...

Hornworts, a group of small and often overlooked plants, may hold the key to revolutionizing agriculture and combating ...

Scientists have discovered that a crucial protein found in plants, called auxin response factor (ARF) first arose about 600 ...

Using this system, in 2023 they achieved detailed analysis of human cultured cells via top-down proteomics and established a methodology for a new middle-down proteomics, in which the Glu-C ...

A recent study from Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India has revealed new details about how our cells clean up and recycle waste. This process, known as autophagy, is like a self ...

really important to maintain any structure which has a membrane," Singh said. Take the electrolyte potassium, for example. It is the most abundant positively charged ion inside cells, but its ...

coli and yeast -- to produce a special class of plant hormones ... OH-CLA -- thanks to the microbial cell factory -- allowed the team to uncover its precise structure for the first time.

As hormones, strigolactones control the development of the plant and its responses to stress ... of 16-OH-CLA — thanks to the microbial cell factory — allowed the team to uncover its precise structure ...

The team isolated the chloroplasts from algal cells using a centrifuge and gentle stirring. Instead of then piercing the host cells’ membranes, as in earlier work, the researchers adjusted the culture ...