Researchers in the UK have now adapted a Raman spectroscopy technique to analyse preservation fluids in specimen jars without ...

Imagine yourself as the first naturalist to stand in a place where little recorded scientific knowledge exists, like Alfred Russel Wallace in the Malay Archipelago or Alexander von Humboldt in the ...

Scientists have successfully analyzed Charles Darwin's original specimens from his HMS Beagle voyage (1831 to 1836) to the Galapagos Islands.

Jocelyn P. Colella is an Assistant Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and Assistant Curator of Mammals, University of Kansas. Bryan McLean is an Assistant Professor of Biology, University of ...

At the Desert Botanical Garden, researchers can request plants that have been catalogued over 80 years to understand genetic changes.

Beneath the public galleries of the University of Alaska Museum of the North (UAMN) lies a unique library of life. This library doesn’t lend books or manuscripts; instead, it loans frozen biological ...

The animal collections housed at zoos and natural history museums -- living specimens in the first case, preserved in the other -- constitute an exhaustive trove of information about Earth's ...

We have written at length about the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) actions to promulgate regulations specifying the agency’s authority to regulate laboratory developed tests (LDTs) as ...