Microbes such
as algal cells colonize the ice and can accumulate over time given enough sunlight, water and nutrients.
Not exact matches
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.
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.
A new design of algae - powered fuel
cells that is five times more efficient than existing plant and
algal models,
as well
as being potentially more cost - effective to produce and practical to use, has been developed by researchers at the University of Cambridge.
Energy is generated through fuel
cells powered with hydrogen collected from phytohydrogen generators (genetically enhanced
algal cultures that produce the element
as a by - product) and with solar - collector hydrogen generators.