But a recent discovery upends that rule. In two recent papers, an international team of scientists describes the first known nitrogen-fixing organelle within a eukaryotic cell. The organelle is ...

bigelowii, in areas of the open ocean that are often low in nutrients. Most nitrogen-fixing bacteria have mechanisms to regulate dinitrogen use when fixed sources of nitrogen are available ...

Karen is a science journalism intern at The Scientist. Her PhD and post doctoral research was in molecular biology. She has previously written for Science, Creative Nonfiction, and Altasea. View Full ...

If corn was ever jealous of soybean’s relationship with nitrogen-fixing bacteria, advancements in gene editing could one day ...

THE polar lipid fractions from blue-green algae are usually simpler than those from higher algae and leaves, and normally contain only those four acyl lipids that are commonly associated with ...