Scientists at the University of Helsinki discovered how plants heal their protective outer layer, the periderm. The diffusion of ethylene and oxygen through a wound triggers repair—a finding with ...

Sustainable materials—powered by sunlight and living microbes—that remove pollutants from water, release oxygen into a wound ...

Thriving microbe communities living in the most-polluted spots in the US offer insight into how to clean up the mess of ...

A new IAEA coordinated research project (CRP) will investigate the impact of nutrient pollution from land-based sources on coastal eutrophication and the formation of harmful algal blooms.

The cell theory Hints at the idea that the cell is the basic component of living organisms emerged well before 1838–39, which was when the cell theory was officially formulated.

Genetics is the branch of science concerned with genes, heredity, and variation in living organisms. It seeks to understand the process of trait inheritance from parents to offspring, including ...

This Giant Blob Slime Mold can Learn Like Other Living Organisms No, it’s not the same growing creature from the 1958 horror film The Blob. This blob-like slime mold consists of one giant cell.

Biochemical and physiological mechanisms of adaptation of organisms to the marine environment. Special emphasis is on biological responses to temperature, salinity, carbon dioxide, pH and bicarbonate ...