Japanese researchers have achieved a breakthrough by inserting energy-generating chloroplasts from algae into hamster cells, allowing these animal cells to photosynthesize. Previously, it was ...

energy-harvesting sacs inside of chloroplasts—to turn less of the sun’s energy into sugar and put more energy into producing hydrogen. 13 Stephen Mayfield, a molecular biologist at the California ...

In both plants and algae, this important process takes place in tiny, specialized places inside the cell called chloroplasts. Chloroplasts use the absorbed energy from the sun to convert carbon ...

A recent study by Chinese scientists has revealed the intricate molecular machinery driving energy exchange within chloroplasts, shedding light on a key event in the evolution of plant life.

coli—which is where algae, with their nonglycosylating chloroplasts, can come in. Among several new systems for producing biologics, ranging from carrots to weeds to goats, Mayfield's algae and ...

To explore how differences in translocase activity might shed light on chloroplast evolution, Mehta and his team studied the ...

Further, the project focused on kleptoplasty, a phenomenon in which a protist steals chloroplasts form algae and use them for photosynthesis. The research was done at the University of Helsinki and at ...