euglena

Euglena gracilis, often regarded as a “superfood,” is a promising microalga with many health and nutritional benefits.

This study, which was co-authored by Dr. Kengo Suzuki from Euglena Co.,

There is enough of it, by Parker’s calculation, when convective windstorms occur at the time of farmland cultivation and swirl it from the soil into the upper atmosphere, to produce a visible bloom of Euglena in a fair-sized pond.

At the State University of New York in Albany, she studied the 24-hour variation in nutrient cycling in Euglena, a single-cell photosynthesizer like Prochlorococcus, but found in freshwater.

After it is assembled, tiny, light-responsive organisms called Euglena swim on a microscope slide surrounded by four LED lights.