The lobate shape of lymphatic endothelial cells puzzled researchers—now they’ve found it helps stabilize lymphatic ...

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 also ...

The waxy cuticle surface on the outside protects the leaf and prevents excess water loss. The palisade cells at the upper side are packed with chloroplasts to maximise photosynthesis. On the lower ...

This food-making process takes place in the leaf in numerous cells containing chlorophyll, which gives the leaf its green color. This extraordinary chemical absorbs from sunlight the energy that is ...

Because EIN2 also has roles in cell growth control and stress response, it will be interesting to investigate whether this gene can link the genetic control of leaf cell senescence with seasonal ...

The lotus leaf is renowned for its self-cleaning and ... the lotus effect to develop a system for culturing cancer cell clusters that can shed light on hard-to-study tumor properties.

It starts from the initiation of a primordium in the shoot meristem, and ends with the fully structured leaf, composed of several cell types such as trichomes, guard cells, epidermal and mesophyll ...

A spinach leaf proves to be an edible scaffold for lab-grown meat ... provided an edible platform upon which a team of researchers led by a Boston College engineer has grown meat cells, an advance ...