It might look like something you'd find in an alien salad, but this bizarre sea slug can actually steal body parts from other ...

Marine creatures house contraband structures in special organelles, which the animal raids for food in times of need.

Chloroplasts are organelles (specialized cellular subcompartments) that enable plants, algae, and related organisms to photosynthesize. The Archaeplastida (a major group that contains red algae ...

Nowadays, plant and algae chloroplasts can’t get by without protein cargo that’s manufactured exclusively out of genes in the nucleus, which doesn’t survive the sea slug’s discerning ...

Chloroplasts are the distant descendants of photosynthetic bacteria that became symbiotic, a bit less than 2bn years ago, with an organism ancestral to today’s algae and plants.

The cells of algae, like those of plants, contain small compartments called chloroplasts that are its engines of photosynthesis. As the Elysia munches on algae, it takes their chloroplasts into ...

The algae, which contain chloroplasts, can convert light into food and oxygen through photosynthesis. In this arrangement, the clams offer a habitat for the algae, while the algae supply energy ...

Energy-making chloroplasts from algae have been inserted into hamster cells, enabling the cells to photosynthesize light, according to new research in Japan. It was previously thought that ...

Chloroplasts' ancient origins: ... Combining chloroplasts from algae with hamster cells. Oct 30, 2024. Scientists create viable, reproducing yeast-cyanobacterial hybrids. May 2, 2022.

Researchers in Japan have achieved a milestone in cellular biology by embedding chloroplasts from algae into hamster cells, creating photosynthetic animal cells that survive and continue ...