“It’s a bit like giving the soil a DNA test.” A new droplet digital PCR (ddPCR) method quantifies root DNA directly from soil ...

Insects may be even more dominant on Earth than scientists thought. A new estimate suggests the planet could hold 14 million ...

Insects may be far more numerous than anyone thought. A new study estimates that Earth holds 14 million to 20 million insect ...

A new study has presented an updated estimate of the total number of insect species worldwide. The results suggest that 8 ...

New research has found the Earth has millions more insects species than previously thought. An international team of experts, ...

After much discussion, the scientific community settled on an estimate of around six million species. This conservative ...

A new study more than doubles previous estimates of how many distinct kinds of insects are currently inhabiting the planet.

Dr Robert Puschendorf, Associate Professor of Conservation Biology, used his expertise in the tropical rainforests of ...

Researchers developed a forensic proteomics workflow that identified the species origin of hair using protein biomarkers ...

Fieldwork for the California Intertidal Biodiversity DNA Barcode Library Project officially began in San Diego on June 21, ...

Over the past decades, lineage tracing has been fundamental to unraveling how diverse cell types arise during development and how tumors evolve ...

Researchers at the National University of Singapore (NUS) have developed a high-throughput method to identify gold nanoparticles capable of delivering therapies directly to mitochondria (the energy ...