As researchers in paleolimnology, the historical study of freshwater sediments, we examine the sediments that settles at the ...

Many biological molecules are chiral, meaning they exist in two forms that are mirror images of each other, like left and ...

For example, diatoms, a type of algae found in the ocean, feature glassy cell walls made of transparent silicon dioxide. This doesn’t make diatoms silicon-based life forms, but it does prove ...

Otunba Okubena and I met in Nigeria’s Alternative Medicines market in 1994 when he was about to push into the market his herbal medicine recipe from five plants in Yorubaland which, today, goes by the ...

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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 ...

The team recorded 24 hours of the cellular construction process, revealing surprising new details about how plant cell walls ...

In a groundbreaking study on the synthesis of cellulose -- a major constituent of all plant cell walls -- a team has captured images of the microscopic process of cell-wall building continuously over ...

Advanced techniques are allowing scientists to witness the process where plant cells generate cellulose fibers.