Endosymbiosis, the process by which one organism engulfed another and integrated its DNA and functions into itself rather ...

A certain species of sea slug steals chloroplasts from algae and houses its contraband in special organelles that it can raid ...

Scientists have long known that chloroplasts help plants turn the sun’s energy into food, but a new study, led by plant biologists at the University of California, Davis, shows that they are also ...

Sacoglossan sea slugs, discreet inhabitants of coral reefs, hide an astonishing secret. Unlike other animals, they can "steal ...

Plant cells have some specialized properties that make them distinct from animal cells. Learn how special structures, such as chloroplasts and cell walls, create this distinction.

Citation: Chloroplasts' ancient origins: Organelles may have emerged as energy producers before switching to carbon assimilation (2024, December 10) retrieved 9 July 2025 from https://phys.org ...

An image shows chloroplasts (magenta colored) successfully incorporated into animal cells for the first time. In a world first scientists have successfully engineered animal cells that can ...

Chloroplasts are highly sensitive organelles that can sense changes in the environment, such as shifts in light intensity and temperature. Today, ...

Rather than forcing these schyzon chloroplasts into animal cells, the team added them to a culture that was then fed to Chinese hamster ovary cells. Reporting their findings in a new study, ...

Chloroplasts are generally spherical, but a small percentage of them change their shape and send out tube-like projections called “stromules.” First observed over a century ago, the biological ...

Chloroplasts, the parts of cells that allow plants and algae to photosynthesize, are thought to have originated more than 1 billion years ago, when photosynthetic cyanobacteria lived symbiotically ...

The chloroplasts were sourced from red algae, while the animal cells were cultured from hamsters. Previous studies had found success in transplanting chloroplasts into yeast , granting them the ...