A first-of-its-kind achievement has implanted photosynthesizing cells in animal cells to make “planimals.” This feat could be ...

A Japanese team has developed a technique to insert chloroplasts isolated from algae into animal cells, a feat that could ...

However, unlike plants and algae, animal cells do not contain ... in size due to hypoxia (low oxygen levels) inside the tissue, which prevents cell division. By mixing in chloroplast-implanted ...

Hamster cells capable of photosynthesis: this could transform medicine. A Japanese team successfully achieved this feat, ...

Animal and plant cells have different energy-producing structures inside them. For animals, that’s mitochondria, which convert chemical energy from food into a form that our cells can use.

Animal cells would destroy the chloroplasts as soon as they were introduced, and the high levels of heat inside animal cells were too much for the chloroplasts to handle. But in this new effort ...