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.

PIEZO channels were first identified in plant genomes in 2010. After a decade of research on animal homologs, this new research shines a spotlight on plant cells and explores how they differ from ...

Plant researchers are studying a gene which, if out of control, can contribute to cancer spread. Two such different organisms as plants and humans developed from a common precursor cell. Traces of ...

In a new study, researchers from the University of Chicago discovered that zeaxanthin, a plant-derived carotenoid best known ...

Previously, we tried to isolate nanothylakoid units for transfer into animal cells by ‘subtracting’ unwanted cellular material from plant cells, thereby removing cell membranes and ...

Biologists have discovered how cytokinin activates stem cell division in plants. The mechanism by which the plant hormone cytokinin controls cell division has been discovered -- a breakthrough ...

Katanin severs microtubules in cells, which is an important step in cell division and central to the development of many organisms, including plants and animals.

Here, plants and animals differ: once the spindle is formed, it remains in the same place in plant cells. In animal cells, the spindle moves during cell division.

In a recent paper published in iScience, researchers at the Max Delbruck Center for Molecular Medicine in Berlin, Germany, claim to have achieved what previously would have been called science fiction ...

Plants’ Photosynthetic Machinery Functions inside Hamster Cells Transplanted chloroplasts endured two days inside animal cells—and got to work ...