The study, led by biologists at Harvard University, found that the slugs build sac-like structures known as kleptosomes out of their own cells in which the chloroplasts are stashed. The kleptosomes ...

A new study led by Harvard biologists describes how some sea slugs consume algae and incorporate their photosynthetic ...

It was previously thought that combining chloroplasts (chlorophyll containing structures in the cells of plants and algae) with animal cells was not possible, ...

Discover how photosynthesis works, the role of chlorophyll, and why this natural process is essential for life on ...

Chlorophyll is the primary pigment used for photosynthesis and gives plants their green color, ... One was absorbed by a detector, while the other hit a bacteria's chloroplast equivalent.

What do all of these living things do every day that leads inexorably to death? We eat. Eating provides the cells of the body ...

A new study has uncovered a novel P-type PPR protein, BoYgl-2, which plays a crucial role in chloroplast RNA editing and chlorophyll biosynthesis in cabbage.

Chlorophyll: hiding under the microscope. ... Chloroplasts are highly sensitive organelles that can sense changes in the environment, such as shifts in light intensity and temperature.

Chlorophyll uses the energy it takes in from the sun to start a set of chemical reactions called photosynthesis, the process plants use to make their own food. In both plants and algae, this important ...

Plants store chlorophyll in a part of their cells called chloroplasts. Chlorophyll is essential for photosynthesis, or the process plants use to convert sunlight into energy.

11. The photostability of chlorophyll in a plastid extruded from the cell would indicate that the chlorophyll is not in a lipoid solution, for chlorophyll in solution is quickly destroyed by light.

This fluorescence image shows chloroplasts (magenta colored) successfully incorporated into the hamster cells, with other features of the animal cell also highlighted (nuclei in light blue and ...