Indeed, chloroplasts resemble modern cyanobacteria, which remain similar to the cyanobacteria of 3 million years ago. However, the evolution of photosynthesis goes back even further, to the ...

Living organisms need nitrogen as a central building block for protein formation, for example. However, although our ...

Earth's oceans may have been green for billions of years until the first photosynthetic organisms flooded our atmosphere with ...

The results, appearing in eLife, provide an important basis for the use of cyanobacteria in modern biotechnology. Cyanobacteria are one of the oldest and most important life forms in the world ...

A 2-billion-year-old molecule may solve the “Chicken or Egg” mystery of life’s oxygen timeline. Scientists found evidence ...

Past research on cyanoHABs has mostly used the oldest of microbiological techniques—microscopy—to classify the types of cyanobacteria in the gulf. This cannot differentiate between toxic and non-toxic ...