Before seedlings can photosynthesize, they depend on fatty acids—and on peroxisomes to process them. Researchers discovered ...

Meghna Gupta, Ph.D., is driven to improve fundamental scientific understanding of peroxisomes Meghna Gupta, Ph.D., a ...

For most of their lives, plants get their energy from photosynthesis. But during the seed to seedling stage, when they can't ...

A newly discovered protein controls plant cell growth, helping seedlings develop and survive early growth stages.

Plants spend most of their lives using photosynthesis to make energy. However, in the earliest phase after a seed begins to grow, they cannot yet ...

Scientists have corrected an extremely rare and life-threatening genetic disease of the liver in mouse models and human patient cells, using the gene-editing approach that served as the basis for the ...

Rice University scientists used advanced CRISPR techniques to uncover how the PEX11 protein regulates peroxisome size during the critical seed-to-seedling growth stage in plants. By selectively ...

Correct protein function depends on delivery to the appropriate cellular or subcellular location, and cells have evolved multiple strategies to achieve accurate protein targeting. The delivery process ...

A Mount Sinai-led team has developed a reproducible and scalable method to advance maturation of human pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes (hPSC-CMs)—cells that support heart muscle ...

Dr. Aitchison and his team have a long-standing interest in the basic biology of peroxisomes. These eukaryotic cell organelles are essential for metabolizing lipids and neutralizing damaging oxidizing ...

Rice University scientists used advanced CRISPR techniques to study PEX11, a protein coded by five genes in Arabidopsis plants, revealing its role in controlling peroxisome growth during the ...