Holiday moss is turning out to be more than a rustic backdrop for candles and nativity scenes. By trapping fragments of ...

Moss quietly collects DNA from animals, plants, and microbes, offering a simple way to track biodiversity without harming ...

In this project, volunteers will collect eDNA from around 800 lakes around the world. Credit: Kristy Deiner Taking an accurate census of the organisms in an ecosystem is a challenging task—an observer ...

Pipettes? Check. Centrifuges? Check. Microplates? Check. Gloves? Check. Salmon sperm DNA? Check. Wait what? There are a ...

But when the draft instruction book was first published, independently by an international collective of academic and government labs called the Human Genome Project and the private company Celera ...

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Four years ago, a few hundred miles off the coast of West Africa, a crane lifted a bulbous yellow submarine from the research vessel Poseidon and lowered it into the Atlantic. Inside the sub, Karen ...

On Oct. 20, 2022, Maurice Hastings strolled Temple Street for the first time in almost 40 years. With the help of the Los Angeles Innocence Project, the 69-year-old Los Angeles native inhaled fresh ...

Research reveals that five DNA letters can switch chromatin between fluid and solid-like states, influencing gene ...

Besides helping to collect samples or spot butterflies for research projects — non-professionals can now conduct actual laboratory work alongside professional researchers. Together with Danish high ...