In a discovery three decades in the making, scientists at Rutgers and Brookhaven National Laboratory have acquired detailed ...

Imagine cells navigating through a complex maze, guided by chemical signals and the physical landscape of their environment.

When animals defecate, they shed living cells from their intestines, and these can be found on the outside of the dung, says Williams, a professor of fertility and reproductive health. Living ...

The image sequences provide new insights into how this cell structure forms, which could lead to innovations in plant-derived products such as renewable biofuels. Cell walls are made mostly of ...

Scientists witness living plant cells generate cellulose and form cell walls Date: March 21, 2025 Source: Rutgers University Summary: In a groundbreaking study on the synthesis of cellulose -- a ...

(The common ancestor had earlier engulfed a different bacterium that became the mitochondrion, an organelle that fuels both plant and animal cells). A different descendant of that common ancestor ...

The human body is interconnected with cell-to-cell communication to orchestrate an effective immune response. Plant cells are organized in a rigid, static order resembling a brick wall due to their ...

Researchers say they have successfully cultivated animal cells that draw energy through ... successfully modified metabolic paths in non-plant organisms such as E. coli bacteria and yeast to ...

The cells driving the tissue are a plant-animal hybrid that can gain energy from sunlight in the same way that plants do, the researchers explain in the study. Both animals and plants derive ...

Aside from being seem as "alien" material, the chloroplasts themselves struggle to function in the environment of an animal cell. "Almost all algae and plant species photosynthesize under 30 ...

Animal and plant cells have different energy-producing structures inside them. For animals, that’s mitochondria , which convert chemical energy from food into a form that our cells can use.