Tiny diatoms in the ocean are masters at capturing carbon dioxide (CO 2) from the environment. They fix up to 20% of the Earth's CO 2. A research team at the University of Basel, Switzerland, has now ...

Tiny diatoms in the ocean are masters at capturing carbon dioxide from the environment. They fix up to 20 percent of the Earth's CO2. A research team has now discovered a protein shell in these algae ...

An international team of scientists has discovered that a small, low-abundance protein plays a surprisingly big role in assembling carboxysomes—specialized bacterial microcompartments that enable ...