From 3 to 6 May 2023, 11 students aged 10 to 14 from the Banc d'Arguin National Park UNESCO World Heritage site participated in UNESCO's Environmental DNA (eDNA) sampling campaign, as part of a global ...
The ability to extract trace bits of DNA from soil, water, and even air is revolutionizing science. But it's not foolproof. In the late 1980s, at a federal research facility in Pensacola, Florida, ...
Effective and noninvasive whale and biodiversity monitoring is now possible with the help of citizen scientists, opening up new opportunities for marine conservation. Water samples collected during ...
A thousand kilometers south of Tokyo, far into the largest ocean on Earth, lies a chain of small, volcanic islands - the Ogasawara Islands. Nature has been able to develop on its own terms here, far ...
eDNA sampling in the Brazilian Atlantic Islands: Fernando de Noronha and Atol das Rocas Reserves World Heritage site © Rihel Venuto On 9 and 10 November 2022, local ...
The country will soon have a national biodiversity database, using a new tool called environmental DNA or eDNA. This method can identify different animal ...
Environmental DNA sampling is nothing new. Rather than having to spot or catch an animal, instead the DNA from the traces they leave can be sampled, giving clues about their genetic diversity, their ...
PCR genetic analysis has been in the spotlight since COVID-19, but light is now further facilitating PCR-free methods. Osaka Metropolitan University scientists have developed a light-induced DNA ...