Bright light triggers the chloroplast of a bioluminescent algae to fold into a pattern that minimizes the chloroplast’s exposed area. The chloroplasts of an alga called Pyrocystis lunula fold in on ...

Spinach is said to be rich in vitamin A and good for preventing aging of the eyes. Now a path has opened for spinach to go directly into the eye and even treat ophthalmic diseases. The idea is to put ...

A certain species of sea slug steals chloroplasts from algae and houses its contraband in special organelles that it can raid for food in times of need “It was the wildest thing that we had seen,” ...

SAN ANTONIO — Students at Edison High School added a salt solution to their microscope slides and watched in awe Wednesday as tiny dots of chloroplasts in plant cells moved away from the outer walls.

Breakthrough technologies to study living cells at the subcellular scale reveal that light modulates the dynamic and reversible morphological adaptation of peroxisomes to optimize metabolic exchanges ...