... castigated Veterans Administration health officials for ordering the destruction of biomedical specimens on Legionnaires' disease and other infectious diseases that two prominent researchers had ...
... of patient care, Mayo Clinic researchers are recommending a new technologically-advanced labeling system aimed at reducing specimen labeling errors in a high-volume gastrointestinal endoscopy center.
... progress toward a safer, more effective method of preserving these precious biological specimens in order to prolong their study and enjoyment for future generations, according to an article ...
... : the evolution of
species through natural selection.The mockingbirds are perhaps the
most important specimens Darwin collected from the Galapagos during
his five-year voyage aboard HMS Beagle in the ...
... scale and complexity of research in the life sciences. But in the more immediate future biological specimens will be required in ever greater quantities, with higher quality, for a wide variety of ...
... in biology.
A major constraint on the use of historical, and particularly ancient, insect specimens in aDNA research, is the destructive nature of the sampling procedure. Obviously, this is a ...
Ancient DNA can now be retrieved from various insect remains without destruction of the specimens.
... tool for those developing conservation strategies for threatened species and landscapes: museum specimens. Richard Pearson and Christopher Raxworthy of the American Museum of Natural History dusted ...
Researchers propose a more efficient system using archived specimens for the evaluation of prognostic and predictive biomarkers in a new commentary published online October 8 in the Journal of the ...
The world's largest squid possesses the biggest animal eye, say scientists dissecting a rare specimen.
... of any known hominin. Since the first specimen was reported by Mary and Louis Leakey in 1959, ... texture analysis of the molars of seven specimens of P. boisei. The specimens spanned a time frame of ...
... of data by drawing on multiple sources of information. In the case of biological specimens, for instance, it can be used to infer which parts of the image are individual cells or to determine whether ...
... biopsy. Dissemination studies did not show any metastases. He underwent an APR. The histopathology of the specimen showed a melanoma (S-100 stain positive). Two years after the resection, metastases ...
... the dwarf cloud rat has been seen in its natural habitat, the data collected from this specimen "will significantly augment our understanding of how these rodents evolved, what makes them tick, and ...
... rate of occult malignancies in both these groups of women in the prophylactic mastectomy specimens," Willey explains. "What we found was interesting. There was a higher than expected presence of ...
