Despite rare earth elements' importance in manufacturing cell phones, magnets and a host of other consumer and commercial ...

Global Cellulose Fibers with its corporate home in Memphis. The firm’s announcement says the business generated roughly $2.3 billion in revenue in 2024, employs about 3,300 people worldwide, and runs ...

By probing piezoelectric behavior in monosaccharide crystals, researchers reveal how molecular orientation drives electrical ...

The start-up Function will send practically anyone to a lab for extensive medical testing, no physical required. Is that a good thing? By Kristen V. Brown As Kimberly Crisp approached middle age, ...

As if keeping track of your car's oil change intervals and motor oil type is not enough, you also have to remember to use the proper oil filter. The oil filter removes harmful contaminants from the ...

Version of Record: This is the final version of the article. Cellulose is the major component of the plant cell wall and as such is a major component of all plant biomass on the planet. It is made at ...

Artistic rendering of cellulose biosynthesis with zoomed in view. Individual cellulose chains (dark brown) are synthesized by plasma membrane-bound (purple) cellulose synthase enzyme complexes (cream) ...

Revised: This Reviewed Preprint has been revised by the authors in response to the previous round of peer review; the eLife assessment and the public reviews have been updated where necessary by the ...

The cellulose mats of the newly evolved variants are almost twice as heavy and thick as the wild type. Julie Laurent and her colleagues also analysed these four variants genetically to find out which ...

Cellulose is the primary component of the cell walls of plants, making it the most common polymer on Earth. It’s responsible for the properties of materials like wood and cotton and is the primary ...