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 ...

Photosynthesis takes place in green specialised subunits within a cell known as chloroplasts. Scientists have known that algae and land plants evolved after a more complex organism with a nucleus ...

in order to achieve efficient hydrogen production in green algae," says Happe. "We now know that the machinery that assembles enzymes in the chloroplasts is unique and irreplaceable." ...

Solar power is a relatively new development for humans but, of course, many living things have been exploiting the power of the sun for millions of years, through the process of photosynthesis.

So if something happens to their food source, they have a way of not starving to death until they find more algae to eat." Chloroplast are plant organelles that contain chlorophyll, the green ...

In green algae like closterium, photosynthesis occurs in the chloroplast which is easily visible as a large green band in each semi-cell. Here the algae produces starch which is then stored for energy ...

To completely deplete the algae’s oxygen supply, the researchers turned off part of a chloroplast gene required for oxygen evolution by adding copper to the cells in an enclosed chamber.

In this false-color electron microscopy image, the pyrenoid of a green algae is highlighted in blue, and the chloroplast, an organelle that carries out photosynthesis, is highlighted in green.

(Nanowerk News) A new way of fixing inactive proteins has been discovered in an algae, which uses chloroplast extracts and light to release an interrupting sequence from a protein. Research specialist ...