Special eye drops containing photosynthetic machinery from spinach leaves have helped combat dry eye, a new mouse experiment reveals.

The sunlight-collecting organelles known as chloroplasts solve a packing problem: how to optimize photosynthesis without sustaining damage from dangerously intense rays. Living on light is a dangerous ...

The precise synthesis of proteins is considered essential for cellular function. Now, a team led by LMU biologists Dr. Benjamin Brandt and Professor Hans-Henning Kunz has demonstrated for the first ...

Special eye drops containing photosynthetic machinery from spinach leaves have helped combat dry eye, a new mouse experiment ...

When viruses invade a plant, you might expect an all-out immune war. But new research published in Science shows that, much like in humans, too strong an immune response can actually do more harm than ...

Launched this winter, the Data-Driven Plant Science course bridges experimental biology with embedded sensing, bioinformatics, and machine learning.

THE high affinity for oxygen possessed by muscle hæmoglobin suggested its use as a very sensitive spectroscopic method for detecting and measuring small quantities of oxygen 1. This method has now ...

Transgenic plants have become attractive systems for production of human therapeutic proteins because of the reduced risk of mammalian viral contaminants, the ability to do large scale-up at low cost, ...

What if your eyes could use light to heal themselves? Drawing inspiration from how plants harness sunlight, researchers at ...

NUS scientists have developed a novel treatment for dry eye disease by harnessing the power of photosynthesis in corneal ...

Every plant cell is the product of a biological merger billions of years ago. Chloroplasts are key structures in plants and algae that capture sunlight, but originally they were free-living bacteria ...

Forget soil and fertilisers, there is one plant that needs only the air that we breathe. Darren Crayn explores the salt ...