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 ...

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

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.

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.

The team isolated the chloroplasts from algal cells using a centrifuge and gentle stirring. Instead of then piercing the host cells’ membranes, as in earlier work, the researchers adjusted the ...

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.

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.

Chloroplasts are special semi-autonomous organelles. They contain the chlorophyll which are essential pigments for harvesting solar energy in photosynthetic systems. Chloroplast's role is ...

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.

The signal recognition particle (SRP), a ribonucleoprotein complex that is conserved across all organisms, is essential for cotranslational insertion of proteins into membranes. A three ...

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 ...