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Leaf morphogenesis research

Walking Through Forestry And Leaf Morphogenesis

Ever wondered why leaves have different shapes? Because there's a bunch of them. Southern magnolias (Magnolia grandiflora) have smooth ovate leaves; common hollies (Ilex aquifolium) sport elliptical leaves with widely spaced spines around the edges; and the ones in sugar maples (Acer saccarum) are hierarchically lobed. Amongst the

Which is the best model organism of them all? The fruit fly, brewer's yeast or something else?

Which Is The Best Model Organism?

Science is complicated. From the unimaginable scales of the universe to the numerous interactions between molecules in space, just the physical aspects of science can be practically impossible for us to accurately interpret. Even for veterans and experts in their field of study, much of the time their investigations focus

Cells absorbing substances via clathrin-mediated endocytosis, which forms bubble-like vesicles in the cytoplasm

Building Bubbles: Clathrin-Mediated Endocytosis

In all forms of organised systems, communication and transport go hand-in-hand. Human civilisation itself displays this in a myriad instances. When we need a quick meal at home, we might call the local Thai restaurant to get a tasty takeaway curry sent to us. Likewise, sending a package to a

3D bioprinters using bioinks and building life from scratch

3D Bioprinters; Life From Scratch

Imagine this - you walk into a restaurant beneath a cool sunset evening and take a seat at the bar, after which you start looking through the thin menu that a passing waiter provided you with. Besides the usual meal categories and food labels that you've known this

SEM image of coccolithophores with calcite coccolith shells in ocean

Sculpting Marble In Nature - The Effects Of Coccolith Formation

The world and its living inhabitants are connected, with geophysical processes ubiquitously affecting natural ecosystems and vice versa. Over the span of millennia and eons, the ponderous drift of tectonic plates might alter the size and location of continents around the oceans to separate populations of the same species from

Cell motility due to F-actin treadmilling in the direction of an extracellular stimulus

Cell Motility - The Crawling Mechanism Of Actin Assembly

Cells, when going about their everyday business, do not think. Like a great symphony orchestra played by a million synchronised musicians, cells might appear to carry an intelligent consciousness to them - though of course they do not. They are mindless machines that function based on the incredible chemistry and