Plants' ability to sense light and temperature, and their ability to adapt to climate change, hinges on free-forming structures in their cells whose function was, until now, a mystery. Researchers ...

At first glance, plant and animal cells have a lot in common: they’re both highly organized, keep their DNA tucked away in an envelope, and are kinda juicy inside. But plant cells have evolved some ...

This Scientific Reports Collection welcomes original research on Plant organelles-signalling and metabolism. Narrative review articles are also welcomed, to our sister journal Scientific Reviews. For ...

Modern biology textbooks assert that only bacteria can take nitrogen from the atmosphere and convert it into a form that is usable for life. Plants that fix nitrogen, such as legumes, do so by ...

Organelles in cells were originally often independent cells, which were incorporated by host cells and lost their independence in the course of evolution. A team of biologists headed by Professor Dr ...

Hyperspectral imaging has provided an insight into how cells organize and prioritize organelle growth. As cells grow, their organelles also need to grow. But do all the organelles grow at the same ...

Two studies by scientists at the University of Chicago have demonstrated a new way to look into the inner workings of cells—in particular, to track the flow of ions inside the many tiny organelles ...

Picture a living cell as if it were a city. If you were the urban planner for this (very little, very alive) city, one of the things you would have to decide is how to allocate space for different ...

Potato chips, electrolytes after a workout, the taste of our tears: How do the compartments of our cells work when there’s salt around? Recent research by the Krishnan Group, published in Nature ...

Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. Now, a team of UCLA researchers has developed a new method to build programmable artificial organelles inside living cells using RNA ...