Scientists have discovered a sexual reproduction process in microalgae that helps them better understand algae and plant evolution. Their discovery could lead to new industrial applications for ...

Researchers at Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen and Kobe University discovered populations of female brown algae that reproduce from unfertilized gametes and thrive without males. In a study ...

Turbulent times: turbulence could cause motile phytoplankton to come together. (Courtesy: Michael Wilczek, Marco Mazza and colleagues) Mild turbulence on the millimetre scale causes swimming ...

The familiar notion of the separate male and female sexes exhibited by animal and plant species is based in part on the anatomically and genetically distinct gametes, sperm and egg, produced by ...

Closed photobioreactors used to scale production of Algae-C's proprietary microalgae for active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) at one of its partner’s algae farms. Imagine flying on a plane powered ...