By infusing red oak with ferrihydrite using a simple, low-cost process, researchers strengthened the wood at the cellular ...

While there are plenty of weird animals in nature, some of the strangest organisms can only be seen under a microscope. Here ...

Horses love to eat grass, browse hedgerows and pick at branches, however there are several plants that they shouldn’t eat, ...

Not all zombie skin cells are the same. New research reveals three unique subtypes with different roles in aging and disease, ...

Healthy red blood cells are puffy with a dimpled middle. “It’s just a really cool shape,” says Velia Fowler, a cell biologist at The Scripps Research Institute in San Diego. For decades, researchers ...

The iconic pea plant experiments of Gregor Mendel laid the foundations for the science of genetics. Now 160 years on, an ...

Researchers pinpoint the genes responsible for the final three pea traits studied by the famed citizen scientist.

Micro decisions can have macro consequences. A soft matter physicist reveals how interactions within simple cellular ...

New evidence shows plant leaves absorb airborne microplastics, a previously overlooked route for the particles to enter crops ...

Keep the air around the plant’s leaves moist, ensure it gets plenty of light and warmth, and repot it every year, and it should thrive in an English summer. The biggest threat to its survival is ...

and the methods used to investigate them rely on the detection of cell shape. In this interesting and very timely manuscript by Lea Happel et al., Minkowski tensors are introduced to study the ...

Due to the deformability of cells this requires quantifying their shape. We introduce rigorous mathematical tools and a reliable framework for such shape analysis. Applying this to segmented cells in ...