Amid spiralling interest from health officials, government agencies and others beginning to realize potential applications of DNA barcoding, experts from 46 nations converge in Taipei Sept. 18-20.

Stay up to date on the latest science with Brush Up Summaries. Article reviewed by Ninning Liu, PhD from the Wyss Institute at Harvard University. Similar to retail stores that use standardized ...

Advances in sequencing technologies have accelerated the discovery of the genetic causation of diseases and new cell types. This revolution has also given rise to a new technique known as genetic ...

Researchers have used publicly available data to develop a sequence library of the rbcL gene, a popular barcode in plants, for use in DNA metabarcoding studies. Using both the rbcL and an already ...

For years scientists have examined DNA fragments of animals and insects for biodiversity preservation, but researchers from the University of Ghana for the first time are using DNA "barcoding" - ...

DNA barcoding, as the name suggests, was designed to make identifying a species as simple as scanning a supermarket barcode. Image Source / Alamy The herbivores that roam the African savannah are ...

You may want to think twice before vacuuming up any pesky cobwebs you find around your home — these messy spider lairs may contain valuable information (valuable to scientists, that is). A spider's ...

Wandering the aisles of a supermarket several years ago, one of us (Hebert) marveled at how the store could keep track of the array of merchandise simply by examining the varying order of thick and ...

It’s January 2013, and the UK and Ireland are both gripped by the same scandal. News has broken that several food products sold in both countries (all frozen burgers or ready meals) contain horse meat ...