The team isolated the chloroplasts from algal cells using a centrifuge and gentle stirring. Instead of then piercing the host ...

Animal cells also take in and lose water by osmosis. They do not have a cell wall, so will change size and shape when put into solutions that are at a different concentration to the cell contents.

That’s because scientists from the University of Tokyo have found a method that allows animals to photosynthesise. With their ...

Red algal chloroplasts stayed active in hamster cells for 48 hours A new technique enables chloroplast integration into animal cells Study offers potential for photosynthesis in non-plant organisms ...

“As far as we know, this is the first reported detection of photosynthetic electron transport in chloroplasts implanted in ...

The thylakoids contain the light-harvesting complex, including pigments such as chlorophyll, as well as the electron transport chains used in photosynthesis (Figure 2). Plant cell walls are ...

In animals, the signaling molecules used within stem cell niches are often the same used to organize growth and tissue patterning during embryogenesis, such as homologues of the Notch, Wingless ...

Living organisms require barriers to control the transport and exchange of matters. In animals, gut epithelial cells are tightly anchored through a series of cell membrane fusion proteins ...