Preparing skeletal specimens for display in museums or for forensic studies requires the bones to be thoroughly cleaned to ...

Insect pests remain a major challenge in agricultural production and stored-product protection worldwide. Heavy dependence on synthetic insecticides has led ...

In nanoscale particle research, precise control and separation have long been a bottleneck in biotechnology. Researchers at the University of Oulu have now developed a new method that improves ...

I've long been interested in ways in which humans can peacefully coexist with so-called "problem" animals, including predators. In most cases, conservation protocols that call for killing these ...

To train the model, the researchers assembled 833 samples from more than 200 studies with known microbial profiles. When tested on other sample sets with known microbial compositions, PRISM achieved ...

Understanding the role of soil microbes is critical to ecosystem processes, and more thorough comparisons of measurement proxies for soil microbial biomass could broaden the inclusion of explicit ...

A study funded by the Swine Health Information Center Wean-to-Harvest Biosecurity Research Program, in partnership with the Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research and Pork Checkoff, assessed the ...

Education on birth control and its potential adverse effects is vital to women choosing the type that best suits them. Skepticism surrounding hormonal birth control has been increasing nationwide, ...

Microbial contamination represents a significant risk during biomanufacturing. Unlike medicines that can be synthesized chemically using highly controlled materials, biopharmaceuticals require work ...

Speed demons know pulling out as a merging strategy, while politicians use it synonymously with dropping out. But in the sexicon—yes, that’s sex lexicon—pulling out refers to an 'effective' birth ...