Scientists have uncovered genetic variation in the unexplored DNA of the photosynthetic and energy factories of Arabidopsis plants, which plays a ...

Many experts believed it couldn't be done, but researchers in Japan have successfully introduced chloroplasts into hamster cells.

Researchers had given up on achieving photosynthesis in animals, Professor Sachihiro Matsunaga told Newsweek, but that didn't ...

All about the way plants turn sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide into food.

Researchers say they have successfully cultivated animal cells that draw energy through photosynthesis. Previously believed ...

For the first time, scientists have created animal cells that can harness sunlight for energy—a feat once thought ...

Animal and plant cells have different energy-producing ... Plants and algae, meanwhile, use chloroplasts, which perform photosynthesis to generate energy from sunlight to power their cells.

An international research collaboration has shed new light on the molecular basis of gene expression, the fundamental ...

Yang Wenqiang's team from the Institute of Botany is published in Molecular Plant. The Orf2971-FtsHi complex is a structure with 20 subunits formed by 19 proteins, spanning the chloroplast inner ...

Most plants (as well as algae) use chloroplasts to harness the energy of sunlight, which they mix with water and carbon dioxide to produce the carbohydrates they need to grow, releasing oxygen as ...

Scientists from the University of Tokyo have successfully engineered animal cells capable of photosynthesis. The team used ...