Plant breeding plays a vital role in ensuring global food security by increasing crop yields, improving nutritional quality ...

A research team has decoded the genome of historic potato cultivars and used this resource to develop an efficient method for analysis of hundreds of additional potato genomes.

Transparent paperboard is, like cellophane, made from cellulose, the molecule that makes up plant cell walls. Because of the coagulant chemicals used in cellophane’s production, it hadn’t been ...

Extracts made from parts of the cashew plant that are usually thrown away when the nuts are processed commercially were found to significantly limit the development of fat cells and the ...

However, they still require proteins made from instructions in the cell nucleus to function properly and to assemble ... who also is a member of the Purdue Center for Plant Biology. “This discovery ...

Blinatumomab (Blincyto, Amgen) is indicated for 'the treatment of adult patients with Philadelphia chromosome negative CD19-positive B-cell precursor leukaemia ALL in the consolidation phase'. The ...

University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock, Arkansas 72204, United States ...

2018). Figure 1. Plant cell wall structure and oligogalacturonides (OGs) signalling pathway. The illustration represents the plant cell wall and the release of DAMPs, such as OGs, upon CW rupture. The ...

Professor Lucy Wedderburn (UCL GOS Institute of Child Health) and Dr Lizzy Rosser (UCL Division of Medicine) discuss their new study finding that an abundance of key immune cells may be influenced by ...

Defects in this process can lead to cell death or diseases like cancer. A new study has shown how chromosomes change shape during cell division. Certain protein complexes help fold DNA into ...

To prepare the 46 chromosomes of a human cell for transport to the daughter cells during cell division, each chromosome forms a compact X-shaped structure with two rod-like copies.How the cell ...