Gessner’s new lignin filter media is designed to reduce your product carbon footprint. Unlike traditional filter media, ...

A new method developed by Penn State biologists allows them to turn stripped-down plant cells into other types of cells, similar to the way stem cells differentiate into different cell types. Using ...

A Penn State study presents a method using protoplasts to observe the differentiation of plant cells into xylem tracheary ...

For the past decade, scientists have relied almost exclusively on CRISPR-Cas systems for genome editing. Now, a smaller but equally efficient nuclease is here to compete.

MORGANTOWN, W.Va.—Joe Hilton was inside an MRI machine, wearing a $1 million helmet and goggles showing him pictures of heroin being cooked in a spoon and injected into an arm. Doctors behind ...

So, what if I could make some of that sedentary time feel a little more active? Enter: wall sits. Wall sits are an exercise that involves leaning against a wall with your knees at a 90 degree ...

Stem cells are cells that have the capacity to self-renew by dividing and to develop into more mature, specialised cells. Stem cells can be unipotent, multipotent, pluripotent or totipotent ...

IN a study of the structure of the cell wall of baker's yeast with the electron microscope, one of us (A. L. H.) obtained results which induced us to start microchemical work on the presence of ...