Researchers Give Animal Cells the Ability to Photosynthesize for the First TimeA Japanese research team successfully transplanted active chloroplasts into animal cells, demonstrating functional photosynthesis and challenging previous assumptions about cell compatibility.
Plants' Photosynthetic Machinery Functions inside Hamster CellsResearchers successfully implanted algae-derived chloroplasts into hamster cells, allowing them to convert light into energy for at least two days.
Researchers Give Animal Cells the Ability to Photosynthesize for the First TimeA Japanese research team successfully transplanted active chloroplasts into animal cells, demonstrating functional photosynthesis and challenging previous assumptions about cell compatibility.
Plants' Photosynthetic Machinery Functions inside Hamster CellsResearchers successfully implanted algae-derived chloroplasts into hamster cells, allowing them to convert light into energy for at least two days.
Bacteria implanted into fungi offer clues to the origins of complex lifeScientists have recreated a crucial endosymbiotic system that may explain the origins of mitochondria and chloroplasts.