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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...