An Injection of Symbiotic Cyanobacteria Gives Fish the Power of Photosynthesis (Sort Of)

At a biology conference in Boston, Pamela Silver presented the idea of photosynthesis in fish. She provided research in which she injected cyanobacteria, which are responsible for 50% of the Earth's photosynthesis, into zebrafish embryos. The researchers observed that both the bacteria and the fish thrived together. The cynaobacteria was not able to generate enough energy to sustain embryos. The team is working on new ways to increase cynaobacteria production.

This article was an example of hypothesis science. This is because Pamela Silver thought of a possibility, fish being able to carry out the process of photosynthesis, then tested it, and the results were astonishing. The importance this has in our world is that one day we could be engineering photosynthetic animals, or maybe even humans.

An Injection of Symbiotic Cyanobacteria Gives Fish the Power of Photosynthesis (Sort Of), Clay Dillow: Popular science, May 5, 2010.