There is growing concern that plastics may also be responsible for significant harm to the earth’s environment and human health ...

In a breakthrough with promising real-world applications, a team of Rutgers biophysicists, bioengineers, and plant biologists ...

Imaging wall-less plant cells every six minutes for 24 hours revealed how the cells build their protective barriers.

Artificial bacterial transformation is a laboratory technique scientists use to introduce foreign DNA into bacterial cells. There are two main methods ... double-stranded DNA (dsDNA). Figure 1: A ...

Every time I see anything about cell biology, I get super impressed all over again. Each cell is a machine of insane complexity, orders of magnitude more intricate than anything humans have ever made.

derived from the Greek word for bacteria-eaters, or in shortened form, "phages." Scientists have sought to learn how the single-cell organisms survive phage infection in a bid to further ...

The body's cells respond to stress -- toxins, mutations, starvation or other assaults -- by pausing normal functions to focus on conserving energy, repairing damaged components and boosting defenses.

In a groundbreaking study on the synthesis of cellulose—a major constituent of all plant cell walls—a team of Rutgers ... probe derived from an engineered bacterial enzyme that binds ...

Meyer’s team managed to get the living bacterial cells to make themselves into small lenses. The tiny lenses belong to a category called microlens devices that focus or manipulate light at a very ...