A team of researchers including Department of Marine Sciences Professor Senjie Lin have for the first time sequenced the ...

ABOVE: Researchers have identified a nitrogen-fixing organelle known as a nitroplast. Here, it is seen at the opposite end of ...

Researchers knew that many species of algae produced energy-dense ... But physically taking a bacterial cell and putting it inside a eukaryotic cell is not something we have as many tools for. One of ...

A recent study suggests that by the Neoproterozoic period, distinct lineages of amoebae, as well as the ancestors of plants, ...

According to an article published in the journal PNAS, different lineages of amoebae and ancestors of plants, algae and ...

And where plants are always made of many cells, algae may be made from one single cell, or millions. Plants contain a molecule called chlorophyll that works with energy from the sun, water, and carbon ...

Organisms ranging from simple single-celled organisms to intricate multicellular ... Dr. Rémy Luthringer, Head, Algal Culture Facility, Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen These brown algae’s ...

Macroalgae form an important part of aquatic ecosystems. Microalgae – tiny single-cell algae that are invisible to our eyes. They are found in saltwater or freshwater and are capable of photosynthesis ...

The research group’s interdisciplinary project on watermelon snow combines the disciplines of cell biology and ecology, which has resulted in groundbreaking findings. For example, they have documented ...

When these algae extracts were added to muscle ... They are working to see if circular cell culture systems might one day supply food for long-term stays on the surface of the moon.

In both single-celled organisms like prokaryotic bacteria and eukaryotic algae, oxygen and carbon dioxide molecules move by diffusion through cell membranes. Larger multi-cellular organisms such ...

A lynx stretching in the sun, tadpoles swimming beneath lily pads and an investigator dusting a tusk for prints are among the ...