Scientists Just Created Solar-Powered Hamster Cells

In a world first, scientists have successfully added chlorophyll to mammalian cells. Are humans due for a solar-powered upgrade?

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[yamiraguero]

"Oh man im starving"
*Rips heart out towards the light*

[michaelcarlton]

Basically, we need to create Grass-Type Pokémon.

[MrMaguireb]

"I need to go on a diet."
*turns off the light*

[alosreal]

"dude this stuff is so good"
gives lightbulb

[rpyqr]

19 years ago my science teacher jokingly said, one day mammals would have ability to photosynthesis and when need energy just go out in sun. Looking at this reel makes me smile.

[P.ô.ť.åṭø]

Imagine 50 years from now you really crave steake but realise food is now the flipping sun

[RedPistonz]

I simply have to appreciate playing “here comes the sun” in the background of a video about photosynthesis

[elwynn]

Actually, the yellow spotted salamander naturally has algae cells within its own cells present from birth. So we have seen chlorophyll in animal cells. There’s also a species of I believe sea hare (I can’t remember exactly) that does something similar, except it gains the benefits of the photosynthesis when it eats the algae (again, can’t remember exactly so I could be wrong about that one).
But there is already precedent in nature of this. The animal cells produce some waste product that benefits the plant cells, like CO2, and the plant cells produce oxygen that the animal cells use. Super cool that we might be seeing mammals with something like this at some point.

[ChillyJack]

"Why were researchers experimenting with plant hamsters in the first place?"

Clearly they chose Bulbasaur as their starter.

[Henry-I-H-N-I]

Mitochondria 2: THE RETURN OF THE CELL

[nathanlamberth]

I find it a bonus that the chloroplast can be lost without repercussion after the organ is implanted. It doesn’t have to be permanent change.

[migs]

I volunteer to gain chloroplasts in my cells. My bedroom gets bombarded with sunlight so I don't have a problem with finding light lol

[cianmoriarty]

That is an extremely smart way to solve that problem

[wanderingsteve]

The fact that chloroplast gives green color to a body, and aliens are portrayed as green living being is ironic.

[cyrusmagnus]

For anyone that doesn't remember, chloroplasts convert sunlight and carbon dioxide into sugar and oxygen.

As animals, having organelles that would convert CO2 into oxygen would be fascinating. Basically, when you'd be in the sunlight, you'd be able to breath less. Your body's mitochondria would be producing CO2 from O2 and sugar while your chloroplasts would be producing O2 and sugar from CO2 and sunlight. If you were in a perfect homeostasis, theoretically, you could just stop breathing while in sunlight.

But, it seems highly unlikely that we'd have enough O2 given how much mass density we have compared to skin surface area that would be exposed, or even possibly exposed.

[conner]

Use it for growing organs? Dude I want superpowers give it here

[DEVESHCreative]

Aint no way were getting autotrophic hamsters before GTA 6

[AnonymousChilliSauce]

They’re making a real live Poison Ivy supervillain lol

[ISAAC_]

Lungs would supply O2.

The Mitochondria would turn that O2 and C6H12O6 into CO2, H2O and ATP.

The Chloroplasts would turn that CO2 and H2O back into C6H12O6 and some O2.

We found an infinite ATP glitch.

[guy-]

"Transplanted" was the most well-hidden non-pun, like I wouldn't've realised that there was transPLANTed