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

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

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 ...

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

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

Furthermore, even chloroplasts find it hard to sustain themselves in the environment of an animal cell. Algae and plant species photosynthesize under 30 degrees Celsius, while the animal cells are ...

The next step—ensuring chloroplasts can survive longer in animal cells. In the study, the researchers inserted energy-making chloroplasts from a rare red algae into Chinese hamster cells ...

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 ...

First, they searched for chloroplasts that could survive the warmer environment of animal cells, which are usually cultured at around 37 degrees Celsius — significantly higher than the temperatures ...