The global crisis of diminishing biological diversity is challenging our current ability to monitor changes in ecosystems.

You have no cage, no bait and no chance to spot their dorsal fins. Instead, you dip a sterile bottle into the water and ...

It involves taking a sample from the environment and extracting the DNA to document the species that are (or were recently) present. Just like matching barcodes to an item’s price at the supermarket, ...

Leiden researchers, led by Sebastian Pomplun, have developed a new method to screen hundreds of thousands of molecules for ...

Leiden researchers, led by Sebastian Pomplun developed a new method to screen hundreds of thousands of molecules for drug discovery, using mass ...

California has a way of exaggerating things—mountains, deserts, and egos. But its insects? They take excess to another level.

The National Center for Wildlife (NCW), in collaboration with King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), ...

EMBL researchers created SDR-seq, a next-generation tool that decodes both DNA and RNA from the same cell. It finally opens ...

Hebert leads a team of more than 100 researchers who are registering planetary biodiversity at a pace that is 20-fold faster than previously achieved ...

Editor-in-Chief of BioTechniques Michelle Itano (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA) shares her top three articles from the last 3 months of journal issues, explaining their ...