“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 ...

Wistar scientists developed a single-dose DNA method that delivers long-acting weight loss and diabetes drug effects in ...

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

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

A new method for recognizing and targeting DNA that dramatically expands the range of genetic sequences scientists can ...

Blood tests have proved to be a promising tool for detecting and monitoring cancer. Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology and the University of Gothenburg in Sweden have now developed a new ...

DNA-barcoded probes let nanopores identify which metal-ion signals belong to which targets, enabling multiplexed sensing in water and soil extracts. (Nanowerk Spotlight) In heavy metal sensing, the ...

Australian scientists have discovered that DNA barcoding can be used to track cancer cells in solid and liquid biopsies, empowering future research into more reliable breast cancer diagnosis and ...

Over the past decades, lineage tracing has been fundamental to unraveling how diverse cell types arise during development and how tumors evolve ...