Plant a seed and, if the conditions are right, the seed grows. The process seems simple enough at first glance and is something many of us may feel like we learned in elementary school.

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Signals from the plant cell wall help to orchestrate growth, reproduction and immune function. Can harnessing this molecular ...

Metabolism guides the activation states of regulatory T cells, the immune cells that prevent inappropriate activation of the ...

Shanhui Xu, a postdoctoral scholar in the Aiiso Yufeng Li Family Department of Chemical and Nano Engineering at the UC San ...

A team of researchers led by the University of California San Diego has discovered a new way to make yeast cells more efficient "factories" for producing valuable plant compounds. The advance could ...

Oct 14 (Reuters) - China's No. 1 automaker BYD (002594.SZ), opens new tab considers Spain to be its top candidate for a third car factory to serve the European market, two people briefed on the matter ...

It appears problems at Novo Nordisk’s recently acquired manufacturing facility in Indiana aren’t going to be solved any time soon. The FDA has tagged the former Catalent facility with an official ...

Nearly three days after a massive blast at a Tennessee facility that specialized in making military explosives, investigators are still combing through the site where 16 people were killed in a “mass ...

Scientists identified two types of brain cells, neurons and microglia, that are altered in people with depression. Through genomic mapping of post-mortem brain tissue, they found major differences in ...