Micro- and nanoscale plastic particles in soil and water can significantly increase how much toxic chemicals plants and human intestinal cells absorb, according to two new studies from Rutgers Health ...

Chemists at Emory University have invented a reaction to streamline the total synthesis of a compound, phaeocaulisin A, ...

Birth tissue donation is part of a growing statewide program with thousands of participants run through Tennessee Donor Services.

“Broken skin barriers” are real. They’re the subject of great interest from " skinfluencers " on TikTok, but they’re also ...

Among the various derivatives of phenoxyacetic acids, 2,4-D (salts and esters) and MCPA (salts) are widely used as herbicides ...

It starts from the initiation of a primordium in the shoot meristem, and ends with the fully structured leaf, composed of several cell types such as trichomes, guard cells, epidermal and mesophyll ...

Putricia has been placed behind a velvet rope in Sydney's botanic gardens An endangered plant known as the "corpse flower" for its putrid stink is blooming in Australia - and captivating the ...

These specks were known to accumulate only at one end of the cell, making it lopsided so that, when it divides, the two daughter cells are different. The researchers wanted to know how that uneven ...

This sugar is stored in plant cells and fuels their growth. In winter, sunlight is at a minimum and water in the environment is mostly frozen. Plants cannot utilize this frozen water, so winter is ...

Methods: The effect of tanshinlactone on the growth of human cancer cells was evaluated using sulforhodamine B and colony formation assay. Fluorescent dyes are used to label macropinosomes and ...