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Chloroplast Transplantation into Animal Cells: A New Milestone or Premature Optimism?
A team from the University of Tokyo has successfully integrated photosynthetically active chloroplasts into animal cells, aiming to enable self-sustaining energy production through photosynthesis, marking a significant step in synthetic biology.
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