An ocean-dwelling organism called Prochlorococcus plays an important role in photosynthesis. Oceanographer Penny Chisholm explains. Video by Rebecca Jacobson. Additional video courtesy Eric Grabowski, ...

Prochlorococcus are the smallest and most abundant photosynthesizing organisms on the planet. A single Prochlorococcus cell is dwarfed by a human red blood cell, yet globally the microbes number in ...

Oxygen on Earth is produced by photosynthesis in plants and microorganisms, and the most abundant photosynthetic organism on Earth is the marine cyanobacterium Prochlorococcus. Research has shown that ...

It had been a long day of PowerPoint presentations and charts and graphs. A ­couple of hours earlier, Nathan Ahlgren ‘99 had been downstairs wrapping up his talk, jazzily titled “Changes in ...

Prochlorococcus is a type of a cyanobacterium, a microbe that meets its energy needs through photosynthesis. It is estimated to be responsible for 5% of all photosynthesis occurring around the world, ...

A research team led by the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has discovered how carboxysomes—carbon-fixing structures found in some bacteria and algae—work. The breakthrough could ...

Where the microbe Prochlorococcus lives is not determined primarily by temperature, as previously thought. A study finds a relationship with a shared predator actually sets the microbe's range. The ...