In a groundbreaking study on the synthesis of cellulose – a major constituent of all plant cell walls – a team of Rutgers University-New Brunswick researchers has captured images of the microscopic ...

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria is a serious public health threat. Understanding the biology of these bacteria--such as how they synthesise their protective capsules--is essential for developing new ...

Among the many marvels of life is the cell's ability to divide and thus enable organisms to grow and renew themselves. For ...

As researchers in paleolimnology, the historical study of freshwater sediments, we examine the sediments that settles at the ...

For example, diatoms, a type of algae found in the ocean, feature glassy cell walls made of transparent silicon dioxide. This doesn’t make diatoms silicon-based life forms, but it does prove silicon ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Increased water salinity in marine diatom Nitzschia disrupts photosynthetic apparatus connections and cell shell formation. Advanced photonic methods revealed ...

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Univ. Bordeaux, CNRS, Bordeaux INP, CBMN, UMR 5248, IECB, F-33607 Pessac, France ...

We suggest that PGs act as buffering pools for carotenoids in plant cells, making them essential for regulating the photosynthetic efficiency of diatoms. To use P. tricornutum as an industrial ...

Evidence supports the existence of controlled cellular demise in cyanobacteria, and various forms of cell death have been described as a response to biotic and abiotic stresses. However, cell death ...