The study, led by biologists at Harvard University, found that the slugs build sac-like structures known as kleptosomes out of their own cells in which the chloroplasts are stashed. The kleptosomes ...

Sacoglossan sea slugs, discreet inhabitants of coral reefs, hide an astonishing secret. Unlike other animals, they can "steal ...

A new study led by Harvard biologists describes how some sea slugs consume algae and incorporate their photosynthetic ...

It might look like something you'd find in an alien salad, but this bizarre sea slug can actually steal body parts from other ...

What do all of these living things do every day that leads inexorably to death? We eat. Eating provides the cells of the body ...

In the control sample, activity of MDH in chloroplasts was 2-fold higher than that in mitochondria (Figure 2). However, in the infected leaves, the activity of MDH both in chloroplasts and ...

Mitochondria, the organelles in question, are best known as power packs—places where glucose molecules are disassembled to release the energy that drives metabolism. Boosting a failing cell’s ...

In 2007 and 2009, his laboratory showed that isolated mouse mitochondria can be transferred to human cells by co-incubation, providing a proof of principle for transfer of mitochondria by diffusion, ...

Mitochondria are now known to not only generate energy but also produce essential cellular materials, adapting uniquely to stress, which sheds light on cancer survival tactics and aging processes.

Karan found that when the mitochondria were dysfunctional, as occurs in people with mitochondrial diseases (and, to lesser extent, in those with diabetes and other metabolic disorders), cells in ...

Endosymbiosis, the process by which one organism engulfed another and integrated its DNA and functions into itself rather ...