Consortium across the Baltic and North Sea are pooling their resources to develop algae-based products using industrial waste ...

Chromosphaera perkinsii is a single-celled species discovered in 2017 in marine sediments around Hawaii. The first signs of its presence on Earth have been dated at over a billion years, well before ...

A Chinese study has revealed how a type of algae adapts to cold temperatures in Antarctica with special proteins and enzymes. Chlorella is a genus of unicellular green algae distributed all over the ...

Algae are numerous in their forms ... but it can still strike out of the blue. The cause is a unicellular alga that lives free in the water, too small to get trapped in filters, and too persistent to ...

When Takashi Amano introduced the Yamato numa shrimp to his planted tanks in the early 1990s, he revolutionised natural algae control. This see-through, unassuming freshwater shrimp eats algae ...

From nori to kelp to spirulina, sea vegetables are having a moment. There’s a good reason for this. These greens are packed with nutrients, anti-oxidants, protein, and flavor. A staple of Japanese ...

Morphologically simpler brown algae like Ectocarpus and the gametophytes ... Instead, their development involves a smooth transition from unicellular to multicellular stages without distinct ...

The symbiosis between corals and algae, observed in fossil reefs 385 million years old, allowed for an explosion of life that feeds 500 million people ...

But when environmental conditions are right, the unicellular plankton can quickly ... ponds and lakes experienced outbreaks of blue-green algae, 17 of them on the South Fork.

Independently evolved brown algae develop this way ... implying that switching to multicellularity from unicellular stages depends on older genes. By contrast, most of the younger genes expressed ...

His special expertise is on a very important group of proteins called histones that are used to package DNA in all organisms whose cells have a nucleus including plants, algae and humans.