“You could see little parts of the human cell being broken off,” Ralston said of her very first encounter with the parasite.

The single-celled parasite Entamoeba histolytica infects 50 million people each year, killing nearly 70,000. Usually, this ...

Scientists led by Karla Satchell, Ph.D., the Anne Stewart Youmans Professor of Microbiology at Northwestern University, have ...

1. A small AC nightlight. When I go to the bathroom in the middle of the night, the light stays low so I don’t fully wake up ...

To determine the full extent of compounds, organic solvents of different polarities and miscibilities were used following cell wall disruption by freeze-thaw cycles, disruption with glass beads, or ...

Tariffs of up to 3,521% on imports of solar cells from Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam and Malaysia would effectively make the products unmarketable to U.S. consumers. That follows a yearlong ...

Here's how scientists at Rutgers University-New Brunswick witnessed living plant cells building their own cell walls. A team of researchers have captured continuous photographs of cellulose synthesis ...

In a groundbreaking study, researchers at Rutgers University-New Brunswick have captured continuous, 24-hour images of cellulose synthesis, the process by which plant cell walls are built, using ...

Shandong Laboratory of Yantai Drug Discovery, Bohai Rim Advanced Research Institute for Drug Discovery, Yantai, Shandong 264117, China ...

Secondary cell wall (SCW) serves essential biological functions, represents a predominant component of plant biomass, and hold considerable promise for diverse biotechnological and industrial ...