"Monitoring cryptic species and monitoring at scale is a challenge which airborne eDNA may be able to address." ...

Yet the amount of DNA in each cell—what we refer to as genome size—spans an incredible range across the tree of life. In ...

A team of microbiologists and virologists at Wuhan University, working with colleagues from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, ...

Imagine scanning lion dung or a mouse dropping and instantly knowing exactly what and how much the animal has eaten. Thanks to new DNA techniques, this is becoming increasingly feasible.

All modern multicellular life — all life that any of us regularly see — is made of cells with a knack for ...

A comprehensive new 10-year study led by researchers at Arizona State University examined more than 16,000 necropsy records ...

DNA could have more of a use case than just being the backbone of all living things (as if that wasn’t enough already). Scientists have known for years that DNA could store seriously vast ...

Genetic analysis of cavity crud from two famed man-eating lions suggests the method could re-create diets of predators that lived thousands of years ago.

Cells are the smallest unit of life and the building blocks for all organisms. Each component of a cell has its own function. Animal and plant cells differ and they have similarities. Nucleus ...

23, 2024 — Researchers describe the steps they took to manipulate DNA and proteins -- essential building blocks of life -- to create cells that ... bacteria to grow animal- and plastic-free ...

The team, led by researchers at Harvard Medical School, found BPP and its byproducts were internalized in worms at similar ...

Pulsed electrical fields can be used to introduce DNA into a wide variety of animal cells 1,2. Electroporation works well with cell lines that are refractive to other techniques, such as calcium ...