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.

Arabidopsis thaliana was always an unlikely candidate for the limelight. But 25 years ago, the diminutive thale cress ...

Ten projects involving Utrecht-based researchers will receive multi-million euro investments from the National Roadmap for Large-Scale Scientific Infrastructure. This enables them to establish and ...

For half a century, the Toyota Century was the quietest luxury car in the world. It carried Japanese emperors, prime ministers, and CEOs behind curtains of black lacquer paint, ...

Chloroplasts—the "light power plants" of plant cells—are increasingly the focus of synthetic biology. These organelles house ...

Researchers at Helmholtz Munich and the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have developed Nicheformer, the first ...

The discovery opens a path to the sustainable synthesis of anti-inflammatory and anti-tumor agents. Scientists at UBC Okanagan have revealed how plants create mitraphylline, a rare natural substance ...