In a discovery three decades in the making, scientists at Rutgers and Brookhaven National Laboratory have acquired detailed ...

Resistance to disease should mean a longer life, but researchers have found that a mutant protein that helps a plant fight ...

"ADFs are involved not only in leaf aging but also in disease response and plant growth control," Professor Inada explained. "Further elucidation of the function of ADFs can help contribute to crop ...

Over millions of years, higher plants have evolved and adapted to exhibit intricate responses to environmental changes and developmental signals, which are ...

Cell biology is the discipline of biological sciences that studies the structure, physiology, growth, reproduction and death of cells. Research in cell biology uses microscopic and molecular tools ...

Mitosis occurs in five stages: prophase, prometaphase, metaphase, anaphase and telophase. Centrosomal protein assemblies can lead to mitotic spindle dysfunction and abnormal cell division.

People often refer to mitochondria as the powerhouses of the cell. Their main function is to generate the energy necessary to power cells, but they are also involved in cell signaling and death.

Experiments showing that a new carrot plant can be produced from ordinarily nongrowing cells of the root provide clues about what causes and inhibits growth in living ...