Humans can do plenty, but plants have an ability we don't: they make energy straight from sunlight, a superpower called ...

There is a pressing need for environmentally friendly meat production technologies to tackle the increasing global food ...

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.

Tiny photosynthetic microbes could be secretly thriving on Mars — hiding inside small bubbles of liquid water in the thin ...

Humans can do plenty, but plants have an ability we don't: they make energy straight from sunlight, a superpower called ...

However, the chloroplasts survived and performed photosynthetic processes for at least two days, potentially paving the way for advances in tissue engineering. “As far as we know, this is the ...

Cultured meat is grown from animal muscle cells, and animal serum is required to promote the growth of these cells. However, ...

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.

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 combining ...