Algae can cause neurological disease, photosynthetic hamsters and life on earth
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Algae causes neurological disease: Nitroplasts discovered, and a photosynthetic hamster
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January 14, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Algae can cause neurological disease, photosynthetic hamsters and life on earth
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chloroplasts, nitroplasts, and mitochondria of the world unite! you have nothing to lose but your eukaryotic chains!
August 1, 2025 at 5:16 PM
chloroplasts, nitroplasts, and mitochondria of the world unite! you have nothing to lose but your eukaryotic chains!
Plenty of other questions about UCYN-A and its algal host remain unanswered and the team also plans to figure out UCYN-A and the alga operate and study different strains. Further study of nitroplasts could also determine if they are present in other cells and what their benefits
April 20, 2024 at 4:04 PM
Plenty of other questions about UCYN-A and its algal host remain unanswered and the team also plans to figure out UCYN-A and the alga operate and study different strains. Further study of nitroplasts could also determine if they are present in other cells and what their benefits
Merry Christmas to all endosymbionts: mitochondria, chloroplasts, nitroplasts, the whole gang 🎄🦠
Scientists Re-Create the Microbial Dance That Sparked Complex Life | Quanta Magazine
Evolution was fueled by endosymbiosis, cellular alliances in which one microbe makes a permanent home inside another. For the first time, biologists made it happen in the lab.
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December 26, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Merry Christmas to all endosymbionts: mitochondria, chloroplasts, nitroplasts, the whole gang 🎄🦠
Summary:
There was a new type of organelle discovered during covid called nitroplasts.
It was previously believed that only prokaryotes could fix nitrogen, but there are nitrogen fixing eukaryotes as well.
There was a new type of organelle discovered during covid called nitroplasts.
It was previously believed that only prokaryotes could fix nitrogen, but there are nitrogen fixing eukaryotes as well.
July 22, 2026 at 12:38 PM
Summary:
There was a new type of organelle discovered during covid called nitroplasts.
It was previously believed that only prokaryotes could fix nitrogen, but there are nitrogen fixing eukaryotes as well.
There was a new type of organelle discovered during covid called nitroplasts.
It was previously believed that only prokaryotes could fix nitrogen, but there are nitrogen fixing eukaryotes as well.
We must ensure the first company to commercialize Nitroplasts is a European one!
July 18, 2026 at 3:29 PM
We must ensure the first company to commercialize Nitroplasts is a European one!
Recently, the discovery of nitroplasts was announced. Nitroplasts formed 100 million years ago and fix nitrogen.
There are now 4 known organelles formed by absorbing another cell.
Does that make it less rare? Or does it tell us something else?
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There are now 4 known organelles formed by absorbing another cell.
Does that make it less rare? Or does it tell us something else?
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July 4, 2024 at 2:31 PM
Recently, the discovery of nitroplasts was announced. Nitroplasts formed 100 million years ago and fix nitrogen.
There are now 4 known organelles formed by absorbing another cell.
Does that make it less rare? Or does it tell us something else?
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There are now 4 known organelles formed by absorbing another cell.
Does that make it less rare? Or does it tell us something else?
🧪 4 ⬇️
Final day of the conference! Jonathan Zehr on nitroplasts, N2-fixing cyanobacterial endosymbionts in an alga, turned an organelle with its division synchronized with other organelles. PSI is involved in N2 fixation. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#EESSymbiosis
#EESSymbiosis
Nitrogen-fixing organelle in a marine alga
Symbiotic interactions were key to the evolution of chloroplast and mitochondria organelles, which mediate carbon and energy metabolism in eukaryotes. Biological nitrogen fixation, the reduction of ab...
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March 20, 2026 at 8:58 AM
Final day of the conference! Jonathan Zehr on nitroplasts, N2-fixing cyanobacterial endosymbionts in an alga, turned an organelle with its division synchronized with other organelles. PSI is involved in N2 fixation. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#EESSymbiosis
#EESSymbiosis
This is amazing.Scientists have discovered nitroplasts which could be fueling a whole new form of life.
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This Has Only Happened 4 Times In Earth's History!
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February 12, 2026 at 2:46 AM
This is amazing.Scientists have discovered nitroplasts which could be fueling a whole new form of life.
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Why Am I Interested in Nitroplasts?
On Feb. 21, 2017 for Darwin Day, Nick Lane spoke about mitochondria. He mentioned that, at that time, there were only 2½ examples of a cell turning another cell into an organelle: mitochondria, chloroplasts, and maybe one that was in the process.
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On Feb. 21, 2017 for Darwin Day, Nick Lane spoke about mitochondria. He mentioned that, at that time, there were only 2½ examples of a cell turning another cell into an organelle: mitochondria, chloroplasts, and maybe one that was in the process.
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July 4, 2024 at 2:21 PM
Why Am I Interested in Nitroplasts?
On Feb. 21, 2017 for Darwin Day, Nick Lane spoke about mitochondria. He mentioned that, at that time, there were only 2½ examples of a cell turning another cell into an organelle: mitochondria, chloroplasts, and maybe one that was in the process.
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On Feb. 21, 2017 for Darwin Day, Nick Lane spoke about mitochondria. He mentioned that, at that time, there were only 2½ examples of a cell turning another cell into an organelle: mitochondria, chloroplasts, and maybe one that was in the process.
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I bet something cool with nitroplasts will come along. Or laser eyes. Whatevs.
April 7, 2025 at 7:06 PM
I bet something cool with nitroplasts will come along. Or laser eyes. Whatevs.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9B3... eventually we'll be able to integrate Nitroplasts into major food crops. And it'll be at least one Nobel Prize for the related discoveries...
This cell just changed biology
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July 16, 2026 at 8:15 PM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9B3... eventually we'll be able to integrate Nitroplasts into major food crops. And it'll be at least one Nobel Prize for the related discoveries...
My pick from the list
A novel organelle, the nitroplast discovered in the marine alga Braarudosphaera bigelowii. "this finding and related work hint at the possibility of future crops endowed with nitroplasts that would enable them to fertilize themselves."
A novel organelle, the nitroplast discovered in the marine alga Braarudosphaera bigelowii. "this finding and related work hint at the possibility of future crops endowed with nitroplasts that would enable them to fertilize themselves."
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December 15, 2024 at 9:17 PM
My pick from the list
A novel organelle, the nitroplast discovered in the marine alga Braarudosphaera bigelowii. "this finding and related work hint at the possibility of future crops endowed with nitroplasts that would enable them to fertilize themselves."
A novel organelle, the nitroplast discovered in the marine alga Braarudosphaera bigelowii. "this finding and related work hint at the possibility of future crops endowed with nitroplasts that would enable them to fertilize themselves."
Question: the blurb refers to the 4th case, the article describes three (mitochondria, chloroplasts, nitroplasts.)
What's the missing one?
What's the missing one?
December 13, 2024 at 1:44 AM
Question: the blurb refers to the 4th case, the article describes three (mitochondria, chloroplasts, nitroplasts.)
What's the missing one?
What's the missing one?
Chloroplasts are great but not as popular as mitochondria. The chloroplast-like thing I still have to look up.
Nitroplasts are in every ocean and important to fixing nitrogen, but...they're ok.
What if forming organelle-like things is powerful, not rare?
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Nitroplasts are in every ocean and important to fixing nitrogen, but...they're ok.
What if forming organelle-like things is powerful, not rare?
🧪🧬🦠🧫
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July 4, 2024 at 2:39 PM
Chloroplasts are great but not as popular as mitochondria. The chloroplast-like thing I still have to look up.
Nitroplasts are in every ocean and important to fixing nitrogen, but...they're ok.
What if forming organelle-like things is powerful, not rare?
🧪🧬🦠🧫
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Nitroplasts are in every ocean and important to fixing nitrogen, but...they're ok.
What if forming organelle-like things is powerful, not rare?
🧪🧬🦠🧫
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😂 I wanted a cool title, and "baker" fit well for this task. Thank you 🙏 I enjoyed your thread about nitroplasts!
July 4, 2024 at 6:16 PM
😂 I wanted a cool title, and "baker" fit well for this task. Thank you 🙏 I enjoyed your thread about nitroplasts!
green plants that can make food from the sun.
With this latest endosymbiosis event, it’s possible that the algae is converting nitrogen from the atmosphere into ammonia that it can use for other cellular processes. However, it needs the help of a bacterium.
With this latest endosymbiosis event, it’s possible that the algae is converting nitrogen from the atmosphere into ammonia that it can use for other cellular processes. However, it needs the help of a bacterium.
April 20, 2024 at 4:03 PM
green plants that can make food from the sun.
With this latest endosymbiosis event, it’s possible that the algae is converting nitrogen from the atmosphere into ammonia that it can use for other cellular processes. However, it needs the help of a bacterium.
With this latest endosymbiosis event, it’s possible that the algae is converting nitrogen from the atmosphere into ammonia that it can use for other cellular processes. However, it needs the help of a bacterium.
I must be a fool to disagree with Nick Lane. He's brilliant. I'm...me. I read his books. I haven't written mine. Yet.
But it's 2024 and I know about Nitroplasts.
Don't get me wrong. Evolving mitochondria was difficult, and may have taken multiple tries.
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But it's 2024 and I know about Nitroplasts.
Don't get me wrong. Evolving mitochondria was difficult, and may have taken multiple tries.
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July 4, 2024 at 2:50 PM
I must be a fool to disagree with Nick Lane. He's brilliant. I'm...me. I read his books. I haven't written mine. Yet.
But it's 2024 and I know about Nitroplasts.
Don't get me wrong. Evolving mitochondria was difficult, and may have taken multiple tries.
🧪🧬🦠🧫
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But it's 2024 and I know about Nitroplasts.
Don't get me wrong. Evolving mitochondria was difficult, and may have taken multiple tries.
🧪🧬🦠🧫
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Nitroplasts* not shellfish
August 27, 2026 at 8:01 PM
Nitroplasts* not shellfish
That and plants with Nitroplasts
August 7, 2026 at 11:31 PM
That and plants with Nitroplasts
and now.. More Nitroplasts 😊
July 13, 2026 at 3:33 PM
and now.. More Nitroplasts 😊
i'm gonna be less hetero
(im gonna fix nitrogen from the air using nitroplasts instead of harvesting amino acids from other organisms heterotrophically)
(im gonna fix nitrogen from the air using nitroplasts instead of harvesting amino acids from other organisms heterotrophically)
July 13, 2026 at 12:39 PM
i'm gonna be less hetero
(im gonna fix nitrogen from the air using nitroplasts instead of harvesting amino acids from other organisms heterotrophically)
(im gonna fix nitrogen from the air using nitroplasts instead of harvesting amino acids from other organisms heterotrophically)
i'm gonna be less hetero
(im gonna fix nitrogen from the air using nitroplasts instead of harvesting amino acids from other organisms heterotrophically)
(im gonna fix nitrogen from the air using nitroplasts instead of harvesting amino acids from other organisms heterotrophically)
July 13, 2026 at 12:43 PM
i'm gonna be less hetero
(im gonna fix nitrogen from the air using nitroplasts instead of harvesting amino acids from other organisms heterotrophically)
(im gonna fix nitrogen from the air using nitroplasts instead of harvesting amino acids from other organisms heterotrophically)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9B3...
(nitroplasts)
(nitroplasts)
This cell just changed biology
YouTube video by Grist
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July 9, 2026 at 9:40 PM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9B3...
(nitroplasts)
(nitroplasts)
Chloroplasts gave up market share (ecological niches) to a competitor, but not by much. Not quite the killer app.
Nitroplasts? They're good, but don't upset the market terribly.
What else is lurking in the ocean with some sort of ok organelle? I bet there's more.
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Nitroplasts? They're good, but don't upset the market terribly.
What else is lurking in the ocean with some sort of ok organelle? I bet there's more.
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July 4, 2024 at 2:46 PM
Chloroplasts gave up market share (ecological niches) to a competitor, but not by much. Not quite the killer app.
Nitroplasts? They're good, but don't upset the market terribly.
What else is lurking in the ocean with some sort of ok organelle? I bet there's more.
🧪🧬🦠🧫
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Nitroplasts? They're good, but don't upset the market terribly.
What else is lurking in the ocean with some sort of ok organelle? I bet there's more.
🧪🧬🦠🧫
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