Take a detailed journey through the hidden world of onion cells in this captivating microscopy video. Explore the onion’s ...

At the University of Tennessee, no dog is as prized as the blue tick coonhound — specifically, the one chosen to serve as the school’s mascot, Smokey. Smokey the blue tick coonhound was chosen as a ...

Every plant cell is the product of a biological merger billions of years ago. Chloroplasts are key structures in plants and ...

By snatching chloroplasts from algae, animals called sacoglossans produce their own energy through photosynthesis ...

LMU biologists decipher the ionome of chloroplasts and create the foundations for new biotech strategies. Plants fix 258 billion tons of CO 2 in their chloroplasts through photosynthesis every year.

SOME SEA slugs are kleptomaniacs. Elysia crispata, a species of these marine molluscs found in the western Atlantic and the Caribbean, is among the most notorious. When the slugs eat algae, their ...

More than a billion years ago a hungry cell devoured a tiny blue-green alga. But instead of the former simply digesting the latter, the duo struck a remarkable evolutionary deal. Now scientists are ...

How would you like it if you could recharge just by sitting out in the Sun? The ability to use sunlight to convert carbon dioxide (CO2) and water into oxygen and energy is traditionally the exclusive ...

Scientists from the University of Tokyo have successfully engineered animal cells capable of photosynthesis. The team used chloroplasts from schyzon, a species that thrives in volcanic hot springs, ...

Chloroplasts, the parts of cells that allow plants and algae to photosynthesize, are thought to have originated more than 1 billion years ago, when photosynthetic cyanobacteria lived symbiotically ...

The ability of plants to convert sunlight into food is an enviable superpower. Now, researchers have shown they can get animal cells to do the same thing. Photosynthesis in plants and algae is ...