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

Scientists successfully embedded chloroplasts from algae into hamster cells, allowing the cells to survive and photosynthesize for two days. This may aid tissue engineering by providing an internal ...

Solar-Powered Slug Steals Chloroplasts and Stores Them for Emergency Food A certain species of sea slug steals chloroplasts from algae and houses its contraband in special organelles that it can ...

Mary Rumpho from the University of Maine discovered the key to the partnership – the sea slug has also stolen vital genes from the algae that allows it to use the borrowed chloroplast.

Life as we know it wouldn’t be possible without chloroplasts — those tiny, bean-shaped structures inside plant and algae cells that harness the sun’s energy to turn water and carbon dioxide ...

Because the plastids of red algae and glaucophytes appear to resemble a more ancient form of the photosynthetic organelles, the new findings suggest that chloroplasts once shared their primary ...

Nowadays, plant and algae chloroplasts can’t get by without protein cargo that’s manufactured exclusively out of genes in the nucleus, which doesn’t survive the sea slug’s discerning ...

Novel 'repair system' discovered in algae may yield new tools for biotechnology Chloroplasts can cut an interrupting insertion from a protein, but only in the light Date: July 29, 2016 Source ...

Unlike other multicellular organisms, the emerald sea slug (Elysia chlorotica) has the special ability to photosynthesize. It owes this to the gene that it 'steals' from the algae Vaucheria litorea.