"The discovery of preserved thylakoids in N. majensis provides direct evidence of a minimum age of around 1.75 billion years for the divergence between cyanobacteria with thylakoids and those ...

A spinach extract containing green leaf membranes called thylakoids decreases hedonic hunger with up to 95 percent -- and increases weight loss with 43 percent, research concludes.

image: Image of Navifusa majensis, a microfossil from the McDermott Formation in Australia.This 1.75 billion-year-old microfossil contains thylakoids, which identify it as a cyanobacterium. view more ...

Fancy diets aside, who knew that the good-old spinach can help you shed kilos?Eating spinach for weight loss can help you ...

Spinach cells innately contain chloroplasts which include stacks of membranes called thylakoids. "The membranes around those chloroplasts, which are a component of most green leaves, can bind with ...

Scientists found evidence of thylakoids in the Australian fossils, which date to between 1.73 and 1.78 billion years ago, as well as the Canadian fossils, which are 900 million to 1.01 billion ...