Also, they noted a growing number of specialised bacterial and
algal cells in this microenvironment.
Not exact matches
A pyrenoid (blue) is seen
in a cross-section of an
algal cell by false - colored electron microscopy.
In fact, the team's research showed that ROC40 helps control lipid production when the
algal cells were starved of nitrogen.
Someone would have to provide expertise
in handling viruses — specifically, a virus to serve as a vector, or Trojan horse, to cart
algal genes into mammalian
cells.
A report
in the 15 February issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests that a lotion containing an
algal protein can ward off sunburns — often the first step on the road to skin cancer — by repairing part of the damage to skin
cells» chromosomes.
In the new eLife study, the researchers compared RNA from the cells of five different groups: salamander cells with algae, salamander cells without algae, the algal cells living in salamander cells, the algae living in the egg capsules, and algae cultured in the laborator
In the new eLife study, the researchers compared RNA from the
cells of five different groups: salamander
cells with algae, salamander
cells without algae, the
algal cells living
in salamander cells, the algae living in the egg capsules, and algae cultured in the laborator
in salamander
cells, the algae living
in the egg capsules, and algae cultured in the laborator
in the egg capsules, and algae cultured
in the laborator
in the laboratory.
This finding is significant because Nuclearia lacks a
cell wall and has phagotrophic nutrition
in which the food source (such as a bacterium or
algal cell) is engulfed wholly, unlike fungi and microsporidia which utilize absorptive nutrition.
The endosymbiotic acquisition of a eukaryote
cell is represented
in the cryptophytes; where the remnant nucleus of the red
algal symbiont (the nucleomorph) is present between the two inner and two outer plastid membranes.
Genes exclusive to V. carteri and one of its close multicellular
algal relatives that does not have differentiated
cell types, Gonium pectorale, were not specifically enriched
in either V. carteri
cell type.
At the start of the experiment
in late September, the conditions were truly oligotrophic: «The nutrient concentrations were hardly above the detection limit, and the plankton community was dominated by tiny
algal cells and microzooplankton species.
Sapphire Energy has not provided many details publicly about its technology except to say that it doesn't need fresh water to grow the algae and that it has assembled a team with expertise
in cell biology, plant genomics, and
algal production.