I n 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 ...

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 ...

MIT chemists found a way to identify a complex sugar molecule in the cell walls of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the world’s ...

The above figure from the U.S. Department of Energy gives a graphic depiction of the composition of plant cell wall (biomass). Cellulose and hemicellulose contain sugars which can be converted ...

Researchers wanted to determine if adding extremely hard minerals at the nanoscale could make the walls of wood cells ...

Researchers have figured out how to make wood much stronger by injecting it with iron minerals found in soil. This discovery, while still experimental, might eventually transform how we build ...

Using this method, the research team explored the banding patterns that increase the stability of plant cell walls -; much ...

The first paper studied a mouse model of Lyme disease to trace where part of the bacteria’s cell wall travels. As the bacteria grow, they spit out peptidoglycan, a component of the cell wall ...

Molecules and ions pass in and out of the cell through tiny openings in the cell wall. Although the holes are too small to be seen with an electron microscope, their size has been measured ...

We are expanding this classical model with the use of forward genetic approaches. Our results indicate that modifications of cell wall structure and composition leading to e.g. loss of cell adhesion, ...