For the first time, archaeologists have used advanced scientific techniques on 4,000-year-old dental plaque to confirm traces ...

APU studies microplastics and, potentially, per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in Alaskan waterways, creating ...

A research team has developed a high-throughput multiplexed gene and cell doping analysis (HiMDA) based on gene scissors (CRISPR-Cas). The work is published in the journal Science Advances.

Of the 26 scat samples that yielded DNA, the method was able to correctly identify individual foxes with an accuracy of 94.5–99.5% when comparing multiple samples from the same animal. The technique ...