Treat that special gardener in your life to a gift they'll cherish over the holiday season and for many years to come, with ...

Brownies are a delightful indulgence, but they can easily go awry without careful adherence to the recipe. For those with patience, a viral recipe that takes four days to complete has been making ...

Brownies might seem like a cop-out when it comes to a Thanksgiving dessert, but there are ways to elevate this otherwise simple recipe. Try adding in nuts to take brownies to the next level ...

A new method developed by Penn State biologists allows them to turn stripped-down plant cells into other types of cells, similar to the way stem cells differentiate into different cell types.

Stem cell-like approach in plants sheds light on specialized cell wall formation New method reprograms isolated plant cells to form other cell types Date: October 31, 2024 Source: Penn State ...

Banding patterns of cellulose increase the stability of plant cell walls, much like the corrugated patterns in cardboard. Penn State biologists developed a method to isolate plant cells and ...

Animal and plant cells have different energy-producing structures inside them. For animals, that’s mitochondria , which convert chemical energy from food into a form that our cells can use.

It was previously thought that combining chloroplasts (chlorophyll containing structures in the cells of plants and algae) with animal cells was not possible, and that the chloroplasts would not ...

For example, plants need boron, which is taken into the cells by molecules known as the boric acid channel. But how do the proteins that form the channel make it to the plasma membrane?