In animals, these specialised cells can never return to a stem cell state on their own. In plants, however, they can. "Specialised cells of plants can return to being stem cells without external ...

Plant stem cells, as in animals, are maintained in specialized microenvironments, which are known as stem cell niches, where local signals from organizer cells act to prevent stem cell ...

In the last decade, the development of single-use technologies in biopharmaceutical manufacturing has brought a wide variety of bioreactor systems from 10 mL up to 2,000 L to the market.

Livestock farming is destroying our planet. It is a major cause of land and water degradation, biodiversity loss, acid rain, coral reef degeneration, deforestation -- and of course, climate change.

Each component of a cell has its own function. Animal and plant cells differ and they have similarities. Nucleus, cell membrane, cytoplasm and mitochondria are four cell components that are found ...

The minute amounts of poison found in many seeds, leaves and roots are the result of the protracted arms race between plants and the animals that ... now and then, an edible plant can be a problem.

Chloroplasts, the parts of cells ... into animal cells,” explains Yukihiro Matsunaga, a professor at the University of Tokyo. Electron transport is a key process by which plants and algae ...