Algae: The Secret to Faster Skin Regeneration and Wound Healing?
According to a recent study published in the journal Advanced Materials Interfaces, a product derived from the freshwater single-celled green algae Euglena gracilis may accelerate…
According to a recent study published in the journal Advanced Materials Interfaces, a product derived from the freshwater single-celled green algae Euglena gracilis may accelerate…
Scientists have highlighted the ecological and nutritional benefits of aquatic plants, along with the technical and financial difficulties in expanding production. Algae. It’s what’s for…
The discovery of ultrasmall microalgae in a home aquarium could have multiple useful applications. Researchers from the University of Tokyo have uncovered a new species…
Researchers from the Institute of Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences, described the symbiotic relationship between fungi and algae which science has largely overlooked until now….
A new study sheds light on the chemical processes that trigger marine bacteria to transition from coexisting with an algal host to a sudden killer….
Terrestrial agriculture provides the backbone of the world’s food production system. A new opinion article published in the open-access journal PLOS Biology makes the case…
Red snow is a unique phenomenon caused by blooms of red algae that live on the surface of snow. Now, researchers from Japan have developed…
More than 66 million years ago, an asteroid impact led to the extinction of almost three-quarters of life on Earth. The little life that was…
Rice biologists’ discovery can be used to help climate-challenged reefs survive for now. A little more sexy time for symbionts could help coral reefs survive…
Photosynthesizing algae injected into the blood vessels of tadpoles supply oxygen to their brains. Leading a double life in water and on land, frogs have…
Global warming is likely to cause abrupt changes to important algal communities because of shifting biodiversity ‘break point’ boundaries in the oceans – according to…
Researchers on quest to understand how different sexes first evolved. For 30 years, University of Tokyo Associate Professor Hisayoshi Nozaki has traveled an hour west…
Early Land Plants Evolved From Freshwater Algae, Fossils Reveal The world may need to start thinking differently about plants, according to a new report in…
New research into the crucial partnership between coral and algae may one day help prevent coral bleaching. For the first time, scientists have seen stony…
In the late 1800s, scientists were stumped by the “yellow cells” they were observing within the tissues of certain temperate marine animals, including sea anemones,…
Genetics of coral-algal partnerships may have conservation implications. The microscopic algae that live inside and provide nutrients to their reef-building coral hosts may be evolving…
Scientists have identified the protein that was the missing evolutionary link between two ancient algae species – red algae and cryptophytes. An evolutionary mystery that…
UNESCO IOC delivers 1st global assessment report after 7 years’ work by 109 experts in 35 countries, creating a baseline to detect and gauge the…