News tagged with chloroplasts


Scientist Unlocking the Secrets of Sea Slug that Lives Like a Plant

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created Nov 18, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (31) | comments 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- Photosynthesis generates the oxygen needed for life on earth as well as the biomass for food and biofuel production. The process is driven by the absorption of the sun’s energy by tiny green "bodies" called ...





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War of the viruses: Could ancient virus genes help fight modern AIDS?

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Almost 30 years into the AIDS epidemic, scientists have yet to find an effective vaccine against HIV, the virus that destroys the immune system and causes AIDS. HIV is perhaps the most adaptive virus ever ...


Tiny Bacteria Secret to Cicada's Success

Tiny Bacteria Secret to Cicada's Success

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Sep 14, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- John McCutcheon remembers the song of the cicada - the loudest song in the insect world - as the sound track to countless summer hours spent playing outside his childhood home in Rockford, ...


High-Res View of Zinc Transport Protein

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Sep 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- How much difference can a tenth of a nanometer make? When it comes to figuring out how proteins work, an improvement in resolution of that miniscule amount can mean the difference between seeing where atoms ...


Major insights into evolution of life reported

Major insights into evolution of life reported

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Aug 19, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (39) | comments 37

(PhysOrg.com) -- Humans might not be walking the face of the Earth were it not for the ancient fusing of two prokaryotes -- tiny life forms that do not have a cellular nucleus. UCLA molecular biologist James ...


Novel mechanism revealed for increasing recombinant protein yield in tobacco

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Aug 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Elastin-like polypeptides (ELPs) cause plants to store GM proteins in special 'protein bodies', insulating them from normal cellular degradation processes and increasing the overall protein yield. Researchers writing in the ...


Researchers Find Shared Motif in Membrane Transport Proteins Found in Plants, Bacteria

Researchers Find Shared Motif in Membrane Transport Proteins Found in Plants, Bacteria

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jun 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Arkansas researchers have characterized a membrane receptor protein and its binding mechanism from chloroplasts in plants and determined that it shares a commonly shaped binding ...


Plant Min protein sits tight and rescues E. coli

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 20, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A protein vital for correct chloroplast division in plants is able to take on a similar role in bacterial cells, according to research published today in the open access journal BMC Microbiology. The Arabidopsis thaliana ...


Discovering the secret code behind photosynthesis

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created Feb 25, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists from Queen Mary, University of London have discovered that an ancient system of communication found in primitive bacteria, may also explain how plants and algae control the process of photosynthesis.


Figuring out green power -- scientists speed up discovery of plant metabolism genes

Figuring out green power -- scientists speed up discovery of plant metabolism genes

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created Feb 13, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Michigan State University researchers are dramatically speeding up identification of genes that affect the structure and function of chloroplasts, which could lead to plants tailored specifically for biofuel ...


Researchers discover protein is crucial to reproduction of parasites involved in disease

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created Feb 12, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

As diseases go, toxoplasmosis is a wolf in sheep's clothing. Its effects are usually mild, though infection is for life, and two out of five Americans are chronically infected. Those with compromised immune systems can, however, ...



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