Magnifying your paper further will reveal that the fibers are made of long chains of linked sugar molecules, called cellulose. Water is attracted to cellulose and likes to be soaked up and stick ...

Beauty of a plain sheet of paper revealed using fluorescent light and a microscope. By DAILY MAIL REPORTER Updated: 11:13 EDT, 14 June 2011 ...

In a groundbreaking study on the synthesis of cellulose—a major constituent of all plant cell walls—a team of Rutgers University-New Brunswick researchers have captured images of the microscopic ...

On July 31, 2009, Jack Griffith answered selected viewer questions about the cellulose, DNA, and other organic bits found in 250 million-year-old salt deposits as well as the electron microscope ...

image: An atomic force microscope allowed researchers a chance to take a much closer look at how microfibrils -- hair-like fibers made of cellulose that help form the plant cell walls -- moved in ...