Smithsonian researcher Sarah Johnson studies bison specimens to understand how the species’s genetic diversity changed after its decline ...

A long-term study using DNA from whale scat has revealed surprising complexity in the diets of southern Alaska’s fish-eating killer whales.

Drs Kathy Miller and Sunil Badve discuss how HER2 testing has evolved over time as the need for that clinical testing has shifted, including assay limits, biology, and clinical impact.

Food fraud in fish is a vast problem, of greater magnitude than fraud in meat, fruit or vegetables. It poses risks to both industry profits and consumer health. To combat it, the industry must use ...

Fishers are members of the mustelid family, with close relatives including wolverines and pine martens. (Courtesy of Mike Schwartz, USDA Forest Service Researcher) Nathan Kluge affixes a scent pump to ...

ITHACA, N.Y. – A team of ecologists and engineers from Cornell University have made a breakthrough in understanding environmental DNA (eDNA) movement in water. Researchers developed synthetic DNA that ...

How can scientists preserve native Louisiana species, boost the state's aquaculture industry, improve extreme weather resilience and advance cancer research? The answer lies with something like frozen ...

New University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign research finds that for every 10% increase in riparian forest cover adjacent to agricultural fields, an additional terrestrial species is present. URBANA, ...

Museum samples from the USS Albatross. (Photo by John Whalen, Old Dominion University) At this year’s annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America in Baltimore, almost two dozen students and ...