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Scientists determine the structure of highly efficient light-harvesting molecules in green bacteria

Scientists determine the structure of highly efficient light-harvesting molecules in green bacteria

Biology / Biotechnology

created May 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- An international team of scientists has determined the structure of the chlorophyll molecules in green bacteria that are responsible for harvesting light energy. The team's results one day ...





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Researchers Identify Key Molecules in Photosynthesis

Researchers Identify Key Molecules in Photosynthesis

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Chemistry professor Harry Frank led an international group of researchers that identified the molecules in algae which direct the organisms to convert sunlight into oxygen. The findings may ...


Bananas Gone Bad Glow Blue in UV-Light

Bananas Gone Bad Glow Blue in UV-Light

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Sep 09, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Nicholas Turro of Columbia University, Bernhard Krautler of the University of Innsbruck, Austria and their colleagues have found that, as chlorophyll ages and begins to disintegrate in banana ...


First step to converting solar energy using 'artificial leaf'

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jun 29, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (10) | comments 0

An international team of researchers has modified chlorophyll from an alga so that it resembles the extremely efficient light antennae of bacteria. The team was then able to determine the structure of these light antennae. ...


Pliable proteins keep photosynthesis on the light path

Pliable proteins keep photosynthesis on the light path

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Photosynthesis is a remarkable biological process that supports life on earth. Plants and photosynthetic microbes do so by harvesting light to produce their food, and in the process, also provide vital oxygen ...


'Taco shell' protein: Orientation of middle man in photosynthetic bacteria described

'Taco shell' protein: Orientation of middle man in photosynthetic bacteria described

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Apr 13, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have figured out the orientation of a protein in the antenna complex to its neighboring membrane in a photosynthetic bacterium, a key find ...


Orientation of antenna protein in photosynthetic bacteria described

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Apr 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have figured out the orientation of a protein in the antenna complex to its neighboring membrane in a photosynthetic bacterium, a key find in the process of energy transfer ...


Discovering a new life form in the hot springs of Yellowstone

Discovering a new life form in the hot springs of Yellowstone

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created Oct 13, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (9) | comments 0

Geysers, mud pots, steam vents and hot springs in the region now known as Yellowstone National Park awed American Indians and early European explorers. Now, two million tourists visit the park in northwestern ...


Using everyday language to explain scientific concepts could help students learn, study finds

Other Sciences / Other

created Aug 18, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (12) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- To talk about photosynthesis, you need to know a little Latin, a bit of French, some Greek, a word coined by a pair of French chemists in the 19th century, and a word of ancient origin that has been adopted ...


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Researchers identify photosynthetic dimmer switch

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created May 08, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (9) | comments 0

In a study of the molecular mechanisms by which plants protect themselves from oxidation damage should they absorb too much sunlight during photosynthesis, a team of researchers has discovered a molecular ...


Researchers visualize complex pigment mixtures in living cells

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created Mar 04, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

In a technical advance that could allow researchers to watch cells as they act during the process of photosynthesis, scientists have developed a method that extends the power of fluorescence-mediated bio-imaging to see discrete ...



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