Safe storage of biological samples is a cornerstone of successful research projects and clinical trials. However, challenges abound in keeping samples safe, properly preserved, and organized.

Vojtěch Brlík from the Department of Ecology, Faculty of Science, Charles University and the Institute of Vertebrate Biology, Czech Academy of Sciences calls on scientists to share basic information ...

Discover practical strategies for analyzing challenging biological samples, from low-input and degraded specimens to complex matrices.

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 ...

Sodium azide is an old poison with toxicity comparable to potassium cyanide. It would seem to be completely forgotten however, between 2000 and 2020, the number of intentional ingestions and murders ...

Single-cell RNA-sequencing (scRNA-seq) enables the dissection of complex cellular programs at single-cell resolution in biological samples with heterogeneous cell compositions. When cells in a sample ...

Separating single cells from their sample matrix without compromising cell integrity is a balancing act. Single cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) is very sensitive to degradation caused during sample ...

AFM-IR spectroscopy, also known as nanoscale IR spectroscopy, has an ever growing list of application areas, including in microelectronics, pharmaceutical science, polymer characterization and life ...

People's bodies can be old or young for their chronological age, depending, in part, on the amount and types of stressors they have experienced. Scientists can estimate people's biological age, but ...

Depth degradation is a problem biologists know all too well: The deeper you look into a sample, the fuzzier the image becomes. A worm embryo or a piece of tissue may only be tens of microns thick, but ...

GERMANTOWN, Md. & HILDEN, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--QIAGEN N.V. (NYSE: QGEN; Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA) today announced that the number of biological samples processed with consumables kits has ...