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 ...

Shaped like a leaf itself, the slug ... the little green photosynthetic organelles called chloroplasts, from the algae it eats. ... “chloroplasts might have taken a go-cup with them when they ...

To function so long in exile, “chloroplasts might have taken a go-cup with them when they left the algae,” Pierce said. There have been previous hints, however, that the chloroplasts in the ...

Researchers in Japan have achieved a milestone in cellular biology by embedding chloroplasts from algae into hamster cells, creating photosynthetic animal cells that survive and continue ...

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 ...

The cells of algae, like those of plants, contain small compartments called chloroplasts that are its engines of photosynthesis. As the Elysia munches on algae, it takes their chloroplasts into ...

Once the sea slugs have ingested the algae, and the gene, the slug’s own chloroplasts function for up to nine months—a notably longer lifespan than the chloroplasts have in algae.