Phytoplankton cell membranes challenge fundamentals of biochemistry
Monday, February 2, 2009 - 13:43
in Biology & Nature
Get ready to send the biology textbooks back to the printer. In a new paper published in Nature, Benjamin Van Mooy, a geochemist with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and his colleagues report that microscopic plants growing in the Sargasso Sea have come up with a completely unexpected way of building their cells.