In particular, organelles called chloroplasts allow plants to capture the energy of the Sun in energy-rich molecules; cell walls allow plants to have rigid structures as varied as wood trunks and ...

A long series of experiments, beginning in 1956 and ending around 1980, established an outline of cell wall structure and demonstrated that penicillin inhibited one of the terminal steps in its ...

Bacteria detect cell wall fragments as danger signals and form protective biofilms, a survival strategy seen across species ...

A new mini-review published in the Journal of Bioresources and Bioproducts examines how environmental factors, particularly ...

Made up of tiny threads known as cellulose microfibrils, plant cell walls are important for regulating a plant's growth and protecting them from pests and pathogens. Previously, only one route for ...

Languishing in a dungeon cell of Syria’s then-ruler Bashar Assad, surrounded by death and torture, an unknown prisoner scrawled a verse of Arabic poetry on his cell wall -– an expression of pain and ...

Based on the number of game boards found in the 43-square-foot cell, researchers estimate there could have been 10 or more people held together. “The nautical graffiti were identified using the ...

As you walk through the cold, dark cells of Assad's prisons, the graffiti on the walls cries out. The messages plead to God and yearn for loved ones. Often mysterious, they preserve fragments of what ...

The system punished everyone the same, regardless of age ... regardless of whether they were children or the elderly,' said ...

A research group led by Graduate School of Engineering Professor Masayuki Azuma and Associate Professor Yoshihiro Ojima previously showed that three yeast cell wall proteins (Gas1, Gas3 ...