NASA's plagued Space Launch System rocket, which is being developed to deliver the first astronauts to the lunar surface in ...

A Japanese team has developed a technique to insert chloroplasts isolated from algae into animal cells, a feat that could ...

"The plant enzyme that's key to artepillin C production had only ... artepillin C is not excreted into the growth medium ...

Producing herbal medicines on an industrial scale is challenging. However, a team of bioengineers from Kobe University has ...

Herbal medicine is difficult to produce on an industrial scale. A team of Kobe University bioengineers manipulated the ...

If you have eczema you’ll be all too familiar with those cracked, dry, and scaly patches of skin that show up a bright red on ...

Scientists in Japan have found a way to create solar-powered tissues, which may lead to breakthroughs in growing organs and ...

Molecules released from pathogens are recognised by plant cell surface receptors, and trigger specific signalling cascades that help to defend the plant against attack. Wu et al. elucidate the ...

Importantly, these imported chloroplasts displayed activity for two further days, during which time their host cells grew at an accelerated rate. This indicates that photosynthesis was indeed ...

Researchers had given up on achieving photosynthesis in animals, Professor Sachihiro Matsunaga told Newsweek, but that didn't stop him and his colleagues.

Using a new method to isolate and reprogram plant cells into other cell types, biologists explored how banding patterns that increase the stability of plant cell walls are created and how their ...

A new method developed by Penn State biologists allows them to turn stripped-down plant cells into other types of cells, similar to the way stem cells differentiate into different cell types. Using ...