Scientists found molecular evidence supporting the idea that chloroplasts originated as energy-generating organelles and only later evolved to support carbon assimilation in plant cells.

Scientific consensus is that this happened twice over the course of evolution, resulting in the energy-generating organelles known as mitochondria ... cells," Mehta said. The land plant ...

Scientific consensus is that this happened twice over the course of evolution, resulting in the energy-generating organelles known as mitochondria ... cells,” Mehta said. The land plant ...

Evolution was fueled by endosymbiosis, cellular alliances in which one microbe makes a permanent home inside another. For the ...

We asked the question: What chemical role did the primitive symbiont that led to chloroplasts perform for the host cell ... have limitations in advancing this research further. Mitochondria ...

Scientific consensus is that this happened twice over the course of evolution, resulting in the energy-generating organelles known as mitochondria ... role of primitive chloroplasts may have been to ...

Nylon-12 monomers are traditionally produced through chemical synthesis and more recently by bioconversion of plant-derived ... bioenergetics may have driven chloroplast evolution.

Human bodies defend themselves using a diverse population of immune cells that circulate from one organ to another, ...

Salk scientists have created a new atlas of plant cells during immune response, in turn discovering a new rare cell state, ...