Understanding this mechanism is relevant for breeding more resilient or higher-yielding crops. Plants form new leaves, flowers and roots at the tips of shoots and roots, in specific growth regions ...

Imagine a train parked at the station. Passengers climb aboard and find their seats. Conductors move up and down the aisles, checking tickets. But there's a problem—the engineer's watch is broken. As ...

A research team including a scientist of Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) at Institute of Science Tokyo, Japan, has identified a novel principle in biology that mathematically explains why the ...

IT was shown1 that the growth in width of the abdomen of the female pea crab, Pinnotheres pisum, did not show simple allometry2, but a continuously variable allometric relation, relative to carapace ...

Morphogenesis refers to this innate biological process that guides developmental growth and structural configuration into precise target shapes. Yet while biological organisms inherently self-assemble ...