The sun is the ultimate source of energy for virtually all organisms. Photosynthetic cells are able to use solar energy to synthesize energy-rich food molecules and to produce oxygen.

Too much of a good thing is no good at all. Living organisms enjoy sunlight – in fact, they need it to stay alive – but they ...

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

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

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

Like mitochondria, chloroplasts likely originated from ... Some vacuoles have specialized functions, and plant cells can have more than one type of vacuole. Vacuoles are related to lysosomes ...

We thought that the chloroplasts would be digested by the animal cells within hours after being introduced. However, what we ...

“We thought that the chloroplasts would be digested by the animal cells within hours after being introduced. However, what we found was that they continued to function for up to two ...

Most plants (as well as algae) use chloroplasts to harness ... they are unlikely to be able to function in the relatively hot environment of an animal cell, where temperatures are typically ...

“We thought that the chloroplasts would be digested by the animal cells within hours after being introduced. However, what we found was that they continued to function for up to two days, and that the ...