Next the researchers are working on soybeans and cowpeas; the latter is “a hugely important food-security crop in African ...

Despite living in complete darkness, this species sequesters chloroplasts – organelles typically used for photosynthesis – from other organisms. Although these stolen chloroplasts cannot perform ...

The team isolated the chloroplasts from algal cells using a centrifuge and gentle stirring. Instead of then piercing the host cells’ membranes, as in earlier work, the researchers adjusted the culture ...