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

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

The experiment hinges on a key element: chloroplasts. These organelles, present in plants, convert sunlight into energy usable by the cell. Until now, it was believed they could only function in plant ...

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

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

The problem, however, is that animals’ immune systems tend to destroy chloroplasts the moment they are introduced into their cells, which is why no one has ever managed to get them to stick before.

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

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