Plant cells without walls, known as protoplasts, are very fragile, and it has been difficult to keep them alive under a ...

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

Plant cells without a cell wall are fragile, so it's hard to image its construction. Plant cells without a cell wall are ...

Imaging wall-less plant cells every six minutes for 24 hours revealed how the cells build their protective barriers.

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 ...

The proteasome is a microscopic barrel-shaped machine found in every cell of the human body. For decades, scientists only ...

The cells that make up the walls of the finest of all lymphatic vessels have a lobate, oak leaf-like shape that makes them particularly resilient to changes in fluid volume. A similar cell shape ...

A time-lapse video showing Arabidopsis cells generate cellulose fibrils. Credit: Lee Lab/Rutgers University "This work is the first direct visualization of how cellulose synthesizes and self ...

Scientists witness living plant cells generate cellulose and form cell walls Date: March 21, 2025 Source: Rutgers University Summary: In a groundbreaking study on the synthesis of cellulose -- a ...