Plants are a rich and renewable source of compounds used in medicines, food ingredients, and cosmetics. Since growing an ...

As a Ph.D. candidate in the Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Nathan Piligian is developing a novel ...

In a groundbreaking study on the synthesis of cellulose—a major constituent of all plant cell walls—a team of Rutgers University-New Brunswick researchers have captured images of the microscopic ...

At first glance, plant and animal cells have a lot in common: they’re both highly organized, keep their DNA tucked away in an envelope, and are kinda juicy inside. But plant cells have evolved some ...

Similar to humans, plants have an immune system to help defend against parasites and other deleterious infections. The human body is interconnected with cell-to-cell communication to orchestrate an ...

For 450 million years, plants and soil fungi have been trading partners. The fungi weave through plant roots, delivering ...

Plant cell-based bioproduction systems are known for producing proteins with proper folding and post-translational modifications that have been used in a handful of approved therapeutics. Widespread ...

Scouted/The Daily Beast/Stem Natural Intelligence/Getty. Scouted selects products independently. If you purchase something from our posts, we may earn a small commission. I’ll be super honest: before ...

(a) Examples of medicinal plants and their meristematic tissues as sources for stem cell generation. (b) Advantages of using medicinal plant stem cells in research and industrial applications. (c) In ...

Plant cell cultures are an attractive alternative to cultivating whole plants for obtaining natural compounds, but many ...