Article reviewed by Ninning Liu, PhD from the Wyss Institute at Harvard University. Similar to retail stores that use standardized barcodes to differentiate the thousands of items they sell, DNA ...

Consider, for example, the technique called DNA bar coding, which is based on using short fragments of mitochondrial gene CO1 to uniquely identify and document animal species (Savolainen ...

The Earth is filled with species diversity, much of which remains unknown. While scientists have identified between two and three million species, many more remain undiscovered, often referred to ...

A team of researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) has developed a novel method to enhance the precision ...

"This barcode also enables us to do surveillance and identify early whether a tumour is coming back because it is developing resistance to treatment - when those cells start releasing their DNA we ...

An international team of researchers has taken an important step toward understanding how gene expression is controlled ...