An international research team led by Dr. André Marques from the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne, Prof. Dr. Christiane ...

A new study from Imperial has shown that the physical structure of food influences the hormones released as part of digestion ...

Rival Foods has raised $11.6m in a Series B round to expand its shear cell technology, a novel approach to texturizing plant-based proteins.

Knowable Magazine reports on how harnessing the heater to attract pollinators may have first happened more than 300 million ...

Neuroscientists can now make precise genetic tweaks to the neurons that are most affected by brain diseases such as Parkinson ...

Structure of plant Metacaspase 9 from Arabidopsis. ... which exists in plants but not in animals, ... organisms that kill plant cells before eating them, ...

A team of Chinese scientists has traced the ancestor of animals and plants to a hydrogen-metabolising cell that existed before the Great Oxidation Event, a pivotal period that occurred at least 2. ...

Plants & Animals; Home; Biology; Cell & Microbiology; March 27, 2025 The GIST. Discovery reveals how a specialized structure in plant cells helps regulate photosynthesis. by Steve Koppes ...

The last common ancestor of plants and animals was a little single-celled organism that lived around 1.5 billion of years ago.One descendant of our last common ancestor went on to engulf a ...

Challenges remain: Chloroplasts need a steady supply of proteins from the cell. “Animal cells, however, don’t have the necessary genes to make and transport these proteins, so chloroplasts ...

Researchers say they have successfully cultivated animal cells that draw energy through photosynthesis.Previously believed impossible, experts accomplished the first-of-its-kind feat thanks to two ...

The cells driving the tissue are a plant-animal hybrid that can gain energy from sunlight in the same way that plants do, the researchers explain in the study. Both animals and plants derive ...