In 1665, the British polymath Robert Hooke published an unexpectedly popular picture book, “Micrographia.” It featured drawings of household objects and inhabitants that were normally barely ...

Cell wall articles from across Nature Portfolio. Atom; RSS Feed; Definition. The plant cell wall is a complex matrix of linked polysaccharides such as cellulose and pectin, forming a thick semi ...

So, Lam’s team developed their own, custom-built imaging platform. The cells that star in the team’s wall-building video were protoplasts of Arabidopsis, a small flowering plant belonging to ...

The composition of an organism’s cell wall is the fourth characteristic used to classify an alga. Diatoms are unique as their cell wall is made of silica. The intricate designs within their silica ...

Plant cell walls are composites of minute plant fibers interlaced with many different chains of simple sugars, or polymers, that make the structure strong, Carpita said. While studying how cell walls ...

New transporter for recycling of bacterial cell wall found Date: January 26, 2023 Source: Umea University Summary: A transporter which some bacteria use to recycle fragments of their cell wall has ...

Plant cell walls have a special ability to expand without breaking or weakening, which is crucial for plant growth. New research has shown that the cellulose skeleton of the plant cell wall is what ...

Fourteen cells from the Arabidopsis thaliana plant were imaged every six minutes for about 24 hours as they regenerated their cell walls.The glow shows cellulose, chains of sugar molecules, which ...

No Cell Walls, No New Cancer Cells Date: August 28, 2006 Source: Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research Summary: Cancer cells, like houses, need building materials for their walls.

A groundbreaking study from Michigan State University (MSU), recently published in Nature Communications, has revealed how ...

After fortuitously identifying this class of genes regulated by microtubule integrity after mitotic exit but before cytokinesis, when the cell splits into two, Dr. Lee went on to investigate how ...