Sure, playing video game is fun. But the ability of tiny brain organoids to pick up a skill could provide insight into how ...

For the first time, high-resolution time-lapse videos of tiny bits of living plants show how they assemble their protective cell walls, researchers report March 21 in Science Advances. The image ...

Plant cells are surrounded by an intricately structured protective coat called the cell wall. It’s built of cellulose microfibrils intertwined with polysaccharides like hemicellulose or pectin. We ...

Cells aren’t as passive as scientists once thought—they actively create internal currents to move proteins quickly and ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: First discovered in 1986, vaults are mysterious organelles whose exact functions still remain unknown. Now, researchers themselves have given vaults ...