During an ecological study of the epibiotic relationship between ciliate protists and Pomacea figulina (Spix, 1827) (Gastropoda, Ampullariidae), originating from an urban stream in southeast Brazil, a ...

Abstract: This paper proposes a method for integrating multi-joint structures and selective actuation systems into biohybrid robots powered by muscle tissues. We constructed a multi-joint robotic ...

A new organelle, the guanine storage vacuole (GSV), is described using quick-freeze deep-etch electron microscopy, a technique that preserves its membrane ultrastructure, its endowment of crystalline ...

ABSTRACT: Phosphorus is one of the bioelements most needed as a compound cell by living organisms. Phosphorus is involved in several pathologies: in human with bone and kidney diseases, in mammals ...

A research team has revealed the molecular steps that led to the emergence of this plant-specific vacuolar transport system. Their work shows that the acquisition of this pathway was driven by the ...

Hubei Provincial Engineering Laboratory for New Fertilizers/Key Laboratory of Arable Land Conservation (Middle and Lower Reaches of Yangtze River), Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Huazhong ...

Missing the beginning of the film. The film explores the structure and function of plant and animal cells using a microscope. It begins with observing onion cells, highlighting their components such ...

Plants droop and shed their leaves when parched, but with a splash of water, their stems regain strength and their leaves unfurl. This dramatic transformation is a clear signal for us to reach for the ...

For cells to survive, they must maintain contact with their neighbouring cells or the network of proteins and molecules surrounding them known as the extracellular matrix. The cytoskeleton – which ...

Introduction: Cascade genetic screening for risk stratification is standard practice in the family of a patient diagnosed with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), provided that a pathogenic mutation is ...

Human embryo at the blastocyst stage ready to implant. The nuclear envelope of the cells appears in blue and the actin cytoskeleton in orange. Credit: Julie Firmin et Jean-Léon Maître A breakthrough ...