The Global Bacterial and Viral Specimen Collection Market is projected to grow robustly, reaching USD 9.7 billion in 2024 and expected to achieve USD 20.2 billion by 2033, with an 8.5% CAGR. The ...

I've visited the Field Museum for 21 years and finally got to tour one of its hidden collections. Researchers preserve and store 11 million wet specimens in the basement. Here are some of the most ...

Daniel McDonald and Jack Gilbert (both University of California, San Diego; CA, USA) discuss the challenges faced during fecal sample collection and highlight important factors to consider when ...

Today’s Clinical Microbiology laboratory is under tremendous pressure to perform quality testing efficiently while limiting additional cost to the medical institution. Many laboratories are being ...

Hidden in a World War II bunker near New Orleans, Tulane stores more than 8 million preserved fish — and the collection is ...

Historic museum specimens help us learn more about what a species once was like and what it could be like in the future. Erin Malsbury Scientists use a California condor specimen from 1835 — part of ...

In 1912, a group of intrepid explorers led by Rollo and Ida Beck, widely acknowledged to be the foremost marine bird collectors of their time, embarked on a most remarkable effort to catalogue South ...

The latest bottleneck to rolling out diagnostic testing for COVID-19 has been a shortage of tools and equipment needed to collect and transport samples. Manufacturers of swabs and transport media say ...

Researchers at the University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute and Natural History Museum recently uncovered a slipup from decades ago: the misidentification of a poison frog specimen from Peru used ...