Thanks to the Internet, one can easily go back to the summer of 2009 and experience again the flush of excitement about the potential of fuels made from algae. That July, ExxonMobil announced it would ...

Researchers have identified a new pathway by which sugar is released by symbiotic algae. This pathway involves the largely overlooked cell wall, showing that this structure not only protects the cell ...

Since the very beginning of the space age, people have been wondering if algae could provide a life support system beyond our planet. From dozens of studies over the last 60 years, we’ve figured out ...

A scanning electron microscope image of C. paradoxa, the species of glaucophyte the study’s authors examined (courtesy of John Burns). Plants have long been known to release chemicals to respond to ...

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