In a breakthrough with promising real-world applications, a team of Rutgers biophysicists, bioengineers, and plant biologists has captured the first live images. In a groundbreaking study, researchers ...

and the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences. A time-lapse video showing Arabidopsis cells generate cellulose fibrils. Credit: Lee Lab/Rutgers University "This work is the first direct ...

Cellulose is everywhere. In fact, it is the most abundant organic molecule on the Earth! It’s in (but not limited to) our food, clothing, and plastics, and the cellulose compound nitrocellulose is ...

The team's most recent study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, describes the molecular process by which cellobiose—a two-sugar fragment of cellulose that is made ...

Cellulose is a very tough molecule that is used to build the cell wall of plant cells. Plant cells can also combine sugars with nitrates to make amino acids and use these to produce proteins.

the protein that makes up hair and nails Enzymes Catalyse biological reactions ATPase: catalyses the breakdown of ATP and Cellulose synthase: catalyses the formation of cellulose from glucose ...

and the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences. "This work is the first direct visualization of how cellulose synthesizes and self-assembles into a dense fibril network on a plant cell ...