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 tend ...

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

Plants use photosynthesis to derive much of their energy through cells filled with chlorophyll—called chloroplasts—that ...

A first-of-its-kind achievement has implanted photosynthesizing cells in animal cells to make “planimals.” This feat could be ...

The TOC (Translocon at the Outer envelope of Chloroplasts)-TIC (Translocon at the Inner envelope of Chloroplasts) ...

A Japanese team has developed a technique to insert chloroplasts isolated from algae into animal cells, a feat that could ...

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

This is a summary of: Giger, G. H. et al. Inducing novel endosymbioses by implanting bacteria in fungi. Nature 635, 415–422 ...