Scientists in China have developed an E coli capable of harnessing sunlight by incorporating a custom-designed artificial ...

At the heart of its solution lies very special microbes — photosynthetic, gram-negative, purple bacteria, such as Rhodovulum sulfidophilum — which have the ability to pull both carbon and ...

A dangerous bacteria is being used by researchers to help create a range of bioproducts with no carbon footprint.

Evolution was fueled by endosymbiosis, cellular alliances in which one microbe makes a permanent home inside another. For the ...

Unlike plants, animals can’t carry out photosynthesis to generate our own oxygen, yet our brains rely on oxygen to make the massive amounts of energy needed to function. In a study published today ...

In this context, researchers from the Horizon 2020 project PROMICON have developed an innovative method that leverages photosynthetic microorganisms (cyanobacteria) to produce ...

Marine viruses may use their own photosynthesis genes to enhance their fitness by temporarily boosting the energy production of bacteria they infect, scientists report this week in Nature. The ...

Certain metallic rocks seem to be making oxygen in the dark, without light or sunshine, at the bottom of the ocean.

Oxygen is produced as a by-product of photosynthesis. Algae subsumed within plants and some bacteria are also photosynthetic. is the process by which plants make carbohydrates from raw materials ...

"I prefer to say that they are tiny green bacteria that are able to perform photosynthesis as plants but within a really tiny compartment," María Santos-Merino, a postdoctoral researcher in the ...