Solar-Powered Hamster Cells

"biologists took chloroplasts—the cell components responsible for photosynthesis—from red algae and injected them into hamster cells. As a result, the animal cells gained the ability to photosynthesize […] for up to two days
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Lab-grown tissue sometimes struggles to grow because of a lack of oxygen, which could be solved by introducing photosynthetic animal cells."
https://gizmodo.com/biologists-just-created-solar-powered-hamster-cells-2000525065

#Planimals #Photosynthesis #Hamsters #Organoids #Chloroplasts