A team of scientists have identified a gene in poplar trees that enhances photosynthesis and can boost tree height. The study ...

A team of scientists discovered a naturally occurring gene in the poplar tree that enhances photosynthetic activity and ...

A Swedish startup wants to democratize stem cell treatments, but the finances of the unproven therapies raise ethical ...

Scientists have uncovered genetic variation in the unexplored DNA of the photosynthetic and energy factories of Arabidopsis ...

Scientists at The University of Tokyo have integrated chloroplasts, the energy-producing organelles found in plants and algae ...

The development of maternal egg cells is pivotal for survival – but also precarious. During meiosis, the DNA-containing ...

Scientists published more than three dozen papers as part of the Human Cell Atlas, an effort to map the human body cell by ...

Chloroplasts are considered descendants of cyanobacteria, a group of photosynthetic bacteria. This evolutionary origin, through an ancient symbiosis, explains why chloroplasts contain their own DNA, ...

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

Credit: Rodion Kutsaiev/Unsplash Unlike us, plants don't need pantries full of food to stay alive; the Sun is their pantry. But, like us, they require fairly regular sustenance, which ...

Chloroplasts, the parts of cells that allow plants and algae to photosynthesize, are thought to have originated more than 1 billion years ago, when photosynthetic cyanobacteria lived symbiotically ...

The Las Vegas Raiders no longer have many expectations surrounding them for the remainder of the season. At 2-7, the Raiders have all but become spoilers, as their season has taken a turn for the ...