It’s a bit like giving the soil a DNA test.” A new droplet digital PCR (ddPCR) method quantifies root DNA directly from soil ...

Insects may be even more dominant on Earth than scientists thought. A new estimate suggests the planet could hold 14 million ...

After much discussion, the scientific community settled on an estimate of around six million species. This conservative ...

Dr Robert Puschendorf, Associate Professor of Conservation Biology, used his expertise in the tropical rainforests of ...

The closest thing marine taxonomists have to the Olympics is now underway in San Diego. But instead of racing for medals, leading scientists are spending two weeks working together to catalog the ...

Researchers developed a forensic proteomics workflow that identified the species origin of hair using protein biomarkers ...

Testing the system in wastewater The researchers incorporated the barcoding system into bacteriophage P1, a virus known to transfer DNA among enteric bacteria (microorganisms that reside primarily in ...

An interdisciplinary team of Rice University researchers has uncovered previously unknown relationships between bacteriophages — viruses that infect bacteria — and their bacterial hosts, offering a ...

Spatial omic technologies profile the molecular make-up of tissues in detail without tissue disruption, producing detailed maps with great potential for basic and applied research. Existing methods ...

Kolkata: Scientists from the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) have identified a new species of cockroach, Neoloboptera peninsularis, from farmlands in Nathachiwadi, Daund, Pune. The discovery utilized ...

A DNA-based barcoding assay can now quantify, in living mice, how much genetic cargo escapes cellular disposal versus how much is degraded. Measurements from the assay guided the design of lipid ...

Drug delivery researchers have vastly improved the potential of genetic therapies by overcoming the challenge of consistently getting genes and gene-editing tools where they need to be within cells.