Cells get nutrients from their environment, but where do those nutrients come from? Virtually all organic material on Earth has been produced by cells that convert energy from the Sun into energy ...

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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 ...

The ability of plants to convert sunlight into food is an enviable superpower. Now, researchers have shown they can get ...

Previously, it was believed that chloroplasts—light-capturing structures essential to plant cells—could not function within animal cells.

A study at Osaka Metropolitan University has unveiled the 3D structure of an artificial light-harvesting complex II.

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Astrobiologists planted garden cress seeds and cultured dishes of photosynthetic bacteria under lights designed to simulate the light of a star called a K-dwarf.

Researchers have revealed the 3D structure of lab-made light-harvesting complex II (LHCII), a key component in photosynthesis. Using cryo-electron microscopy, they found that artificial LHCII closely ...