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

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

Did you know that every single living thing is made up of teeny, tiny unit structures? You have more than 75 trillion of them in your body – they’re called cells and they are amazing! Today we are ...

Researchers created solar-powered animal cells, by combining chloroplasts from algae with hamster cells Researchers at the University of Tokyo have combined chloroplast from the algae with the hamster ...

Two small molecules that are produced by the plant Arabidopsis thaliana are shown to have the opposite effect on how fast its leaves age. The molecules are peptides, short chains of amino acids. While ...

For animals, that’s mitochondria, which convert chemical energy from food into a form that our cells can use. Plants and algae, meanwhile, use chloroplasts, which perform photosynthesis to ...

Energy-making chloroplasts from algae have been inserted into hamster cells, enabling the cells to photosynthesize light, according to new research in Japan. It was previously thought that ...

Researchers in Japan have achieved a milestone in cellular biology by embedding chloroplasts from algae into hamster cells, creating photosynthetic animal cells that survive and continue ...

Results showed chloroplast genome sizes ranged from 151,752 to 158,965 bp across species, with a typical quadripartite structure and 115 genes (80 protein-coding, 31 tRNA, 4 rRNA).