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These cyanobacteria can produce protein fibres, taking us a step closer to ideal texture from sustainable lab-grown meat.
Scientists discovered an enzyme in cyanobacteria that forms a Sierpiński triangle, revealing nature's first known molecular fractal.
The microfossils in Australia contain the earliest evidence of photosynthesis-related structures.
The transition towards longer days may have allowed cyanobacteria enough breathing room to produce enough oxygen to dramatically and forever alter Earth’s atmosphere.
This could have big implications for our future plans for Mars.
It's all about the oxygen.
One of the world's most fascinating tiny creature may be threatened by chemicals from marine plastic debris.
What do you get when you 3-D print cyanobacteria onto button mushrooms?
It's still pink, after all these years.
If you boil it, don't drink the fish stock.
It wouldn’t be an understatement to say we owe all the wonders of life to photosynthesis – the ability of plants and certain bacteria to convert CO2 into energy (sugars) and food. Scientists have for some time attempted to enhance photosynthesis through genetic manipulation, but it’s only recently that we’re beginning to see these efforts […]
Overgrowth of invasive algae can have huge detrimental effects both on the environment and on human activities. This is quite clearly observed in lake Erie, where a study published by the National Academy of Sciences documents some serious problems. Farmers and the environment According to Anna Michalak, the study’s co-author and a researcher at the […]
As any fourth grader will tell you, photosynthesis is (in layman terms), the process through which plants (and bacteria, algae, etc) get the sugars and other organic compounds they need using energy from sunlight. However, during last week’s synthetic biology conference in Boston, a biologist from Harvard took things to a whole new level, presenting […]
