Researchers say they have successfully cultivated animal cells that draw energy through photosynthesis. Previously believed ...

However, unlike plants and algae, animal cells do not contain chloroplasts ... which in the future can help us achieve a ‘green transformation’ to a more carbon-neutral society.

Researchers had given up on achieving photosynthesis in animals, Professor Sachihiro Matsunaga told Newsweek, but that didn't stop him and his colleagues.