Scientists from Tokyo Metropolitan University have uncovered how fertilized rice seeds begin to divide and establish their ...

Cancer is one of the leading causes of death worldwide, marked by the uncontrolled growth of abnormal cells. What makes it ...

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

How much of our genome really matters? Some argue that because most of our DNA is active, it must be doing something important. Others say even random DNA would be highly active. This has now been put ...

GM and other automakers have pulled back some of their goals around electric vehicle production as demand for the models has been weaker-than-anticipated. Still, auto companies are investing billions ...

Image art by Paul Gerke via ChatGPT 4-o. Clean manufacturing tax credits are on the chopping block in the ongoing U.S. budget battle, but their usefulness cannot be questioned without perpetuating a ...

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 ...

A group of researchers has won a large science prize for a discovery not quite two decades in the making. It was long thought that only simple microbes had mastered a chemical conversion reaction that ...

A new part of an ocean plant cell has been discovered that might revolutionize farming one day. The structure can take nitrogen and convert it into the ingredient that helps all organisms grow. We're ...

Avaada Electro, the manufacturing arm of Avaada Group, has started constructing a 5 GW integrated solar cell and module manufacturing facility at Ecotech in Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh. Uttar Pradesh ...

FuelCell Energy will construct a 7.4 MW fuel cell power plant in Hartford, supporting Connecticut’s renewable energy goals. FuelCell Energy, Inc. announced plans to construct a 7.4 MW fuel cell power ...

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 ...