In 1982, she led the research team that figured out how to genetically alter plants, a discovery that would eventually ...

Explore the complex patterns inside plant cells and discover the amazing structures that make leaves function. #PlantScience ...

Scientists visually tracked an RNA intron jumping from a predator to its prey, revealing insights into gene transfer across ...

The first evidence that bacteria can convert toxic uranium dissolved in water into a stable chemical compound.

It took two scientists decades to find a new nitrogen-fixing organelle. It could change the future of sustainable agriculture ...

Celldetective is an open-source software integrating segmentation, tracking, and event detection to perform high-throughput end-to-end study of dynamic cell interactions, without requiring coding ...

Images captured by an electron microscope (EM) are basically black and white (monochrome) in nature. This is because electron microscopes create images by detecting the intensity of electrons rather ...

Scientists say they have built a cell from scratch for the first time that can feed, grow and replicate like a natural cell. This breakthrough in synthetic biology could usher in an era of ...

Scientists have long dreamed of discovering the alchemy by which chemicals can be turned into life. On Wednesday, a team at the University of Minnesota announced that it had taken a major step toward ...

A technique that supersizes cells to reveal minute details has gone big — really big. Using a polymer similar to those used in nappies to make them super-absorbent, scientists have expanded the volume ...