His lab’s working prototype of a hydrogen fuel cell, based on the finely patterned water-conducting scales of desert lizards ...

However, many cancer-specific surface molecules are also found on healthy cells, albeit at lower concentrations, provoking these drugs to also kill some healthy cells. If two molecules were found ...

The lotus leaf is renowned ... system for culturing cancer cell clusters that can shed light on hard-to-study tumor properties. The new zinc oxide-based culturing surface mimics the lotus leaf ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Leaves are the primary plant organs responsible for photosynthesis. Their size, shape and angles — all affected by cell patterning and growth — can also expose more of their ...

starting at the lower side but slowly accumulating in the remainder of the leaf. The signals that control the expression pattern of the miRNAs, however, remain to be seen.

I reach up into a sugar maple tree's low branches ... This leaf is not what it seems. I dip the leaf in alcohol, then in dilute bleach, long enough to kill fungi and bacteria on the surface.

The waxy cuticle surface on the outside protects ... to maximise photosynthesis. On the lower half of the leaf are spongy mesophyll cells. These have air spaces between them to let gases flow.

In a flat leaf, cell divisions occur vertically against the leaf surface, but in a specific part of Sarracenia leaves, cell divisions occur in parallel to the leaf surface. This difference makes a ...

Bioengineers have harnessed the lotus effect to develop a system for culturing cancer cell clusters that ... zinc oxide-based culturing surface mimics the lotus leaf surface structure, providing ...