Phytoplankton cell membranes challenge fundamentals of biochemistry

Get ready to send the biology textbooks back to the printer. In a new paper published in Nature, Benjamin Van Mooy, a geochemist with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and his colleagues report that microscopic plants growing in the Sargasso Sea have come up with a completely unexpected way of building their cells.

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<p><a href="http://www.physorg.com/news152804048.html">Phytoplankton cell membranes challenge fundamentals of biochemistry</a></p> <p>Get ready to send the biology textbooks back to the printer. In a new paper published in <I>Nature</I>, Benjamin Van Mooy, a geochemist with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and his colleagues report that microscopic plants growing in the Sargasso Sea have come up with a completely unexpected way of building their cells.</p>