Schematic Diagram of How Plant Cells Undergo Asymmetric Cell Division (IMAGE) Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules (ITbM), Nagoya University ...

The plant and animal cell diagrams splashed across textbook pages are a world away from what the billions of cells dividing, dying or busily making proteins actually look like.

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 has captured images of the ...