The thale cress may be a humble weed, but to science, it’s an important model organism. Researchers use the plant as a proxy in experiments to represent other plants, animals and even humans—thanks to ...

Before plants wooed insects with colorful flowers and fragrances, they turned up the heat. A new study shows how cycads, ancient plants often mistaken for palms or ferns, use thermal infrared energy ...

In living organisms, development is a combination of multiple coordinated processes that interact in time and space over the course of growth. One false note in the delicate symphony can have ...

Mimicking the way experienced human observers track growth over time, 3D-NOD integrates novel labeling, registration, and data augmentation strategies to boost sensitivity and accuracy. Tested across ...

The machinery of life is dazzlingly complex. To try to make sense of it, researchers have spent decades focusing on so-called model organisms: creatures that are easy to study in the lab and share key ...

The organs of a body are a spatial division of labour, one created by different genes being turned on or off in different cells. The same process serves to give individual lives a division of labour ...

After studying and experimenting with the thale cress (Arabidopsis thaliana) plant for centuries, scientists have found a new plant organ. There’s always something new to discover in the world, even ...