Scientists have revived 7,000-year-old algae in a bid to help us understand how climate changes have affected the past.

Japanese researchers have achieved a breakthrough by inserting energy-generating chloroplasts from algae ... cell growth. The idea of animal cells adopting photosynthetic abilities may sound like ...

Technically, algae mostly belong to a group of organisms called protists that aren't actually ... The team built micro-photosynthetic power cells that house algae in a specialized solution.

In his manuscript, Kahl remarked upon rose-colored bacteria and green algae living within the body of P. tenue, but no one ever followed up on that peculiar observation, until now. In a study ...

Under microscopes, scientists found that giant single-cell organisms ... microscopic algae it eats to survive. New research reveals that stentors, which are part of a group called protists ...

Plastids are core components of photosynthesis in plants and algae ... cells. Where did plastids originate? Their origin is explained by endosymbiosis, the act of a unicellular heterotrophic ...

by which a cell, like a protist, for some reason absorbs other living things to create something quite new in biology. Genetic analyses of algae conducted by Bhattacharya suggest that the pivotal ...