Malaria is a life-threatening disease affecting people globally. It is spread by mosquitoes carrying Plasmodium parasites ...

Dutch food tech firm Rival Foods has secured $11.5M in funding to scale up its whole-cut plant-based meats, which contain ...

Rival Foods has raised $11.6m in a Series B round to expand its shear cell technology, a novel approach to texturizing plant-based proteins.

Not ready to ditch meat but want to eat less? Hybrid meat isn't as sci-fi as it sounds. Here's how to make hybrid meat and ...

Lam has studied the process at the heart of the enzyme's pivotal role in plant health—a phenomenon known as programmed cell death or cell suicide—for the past 30 years.

A team of Chinese scientists has traced the ancestor of animals and plants to a hydrogen-metabolising cell that existed before the Great Oxidation Event, a pivotal period that occurred at least 2. ...

Tokyo, Japan – Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have found that the motion of unlabeled cells can be used to tell whether they are cancerous or healthy. They observed malignant ...

At first glance, plant and animal cells have a lot in common: they’re both highly organized, keep their DNA tucked away in an envelope, and are kinda. Skip to main content Skip to footer site map.

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 cells driving the tissue are a plant-animal hybrid that can gain energy from sunlight in the same way that plants do, the researchers explain in the study. Both animals and plants derive ...

The research team plans to continue their work to understand the interactions between animal cells and chloroplasts. The path is now open for sustainable biotechnology, which harmoniously combines two ...

Aside from being seem as "alien" material, the chloroplasts themselves struggle to function in the environment of an animal cell. "Almost all algae and plant species photosynthesize under 30 ...