Solar-powered animal cells: Combining chloroplasts from algae with hamster cells

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Oct 30, 2024, 2:30 pm153 pts
Energy-making chloroplasts from algae have been inserted into hamster cells, enabling the cells to photosynthesize light, according to new research in Japan. It was previously thought that combining chloroplasts (chlorophyll containing structures in the cells of plants and algae) with animal cells was not…

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