Preserving DNA in biological samples has long posed a challenge for researchers, but the process may be about to get a lot ...

The University of the Philippines Manila (UP Manila) and the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) on ...

Saving a specimen in alcohol is done all the time, but that process dehydrates the brain and makes it unusable for some scientific investigations that may lead to medical discoveries that can cure ...

Paul Whitmore was barely a week into his job at Yale’s Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage (IPCH) when he encountered a sticky dilemma. A type of glue used to bind and preserve fossils ...

“Beautiful” might not be the word most people would use to describe a slice of human brain, captured in cross section, looking slightly like a Dr. Seuss tree with pinkish lobes. But that is what ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook In a basement laboratory room of the sprawling University Hospital is a doctor in surgical scrubs ...

A team of researchers from Indian Institute of Science (IISc) has developed a new technology that holds the potential to bridge gaps in preservation of specimens for optimum utilisation of existing ...

This Halloween season, learn how the National Museum of Natural History’s dermestid beetle colony transforms decaying animal carcasses into spotless skeletons. Emma Saaty The Smithsonian’s Osteo Prep ...

mid-day spends a morning with six students painstakingly preserving specimens of indigenous or extinct fauna, as they learn to turn this into their specialised skill A student, who is part of the ...

WATERFORD, MI -- It begins when a medical professional sticks an unfortunately long Q-tip-like swab into your nose or mouth. It ends when a machine using sophisticated software analyzes the extracted ...

Despite technological advancements, there are still many factors that can cause specimens for comprehensive genomic profiling (CGP) testing to become compromised, potentially leading to inaccurate ...