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DNA testing on products including jellied eels and unagi, which is used in sushi and donburi, has confirmed widespread – and probably illegal – international trading of critically endangered European eels.

A mouse study has identified an intricate molecular process that appears to play a critical role in memory consolidation.

Researchers have developed a method to measure coral biodiversity by extracting the environmental DNA from a liter of surface seawater collected from above a reef.

Researchers have examined this supposed interplay between infant microbiome composition and birth mode and found that mothers’ vaginal microbiome composition does not affect the microbiome development of babies.

A new study of ancient DNA has revealed the shared African and Asian ancestry of the Swahili people that inhabit the Indian Ocean coast of east Africa.

According to a study, the fast motor kinetics of prestin, a protein found in the inner ear, is essential for hearing high-frequency sounds.

The epigenetic fingerprint of chicken, salmon and shrimp can be used to identify whether it was wild, free-range or factory farmed.

Researchers have identified specific proteins and amino acids that could control bioenergy plants’ ability to identify beneficial microbes that can enhance plant growth and storage of carbon in soils.

Retinal imaging has been proposed as a new, inexpensive and non-invasive way to measure aging in a new study.

A team of scientists has identified two distinct subtypes of insulin-producing beta cells, or ß cells, each with crucial characteristics that may be leveraged to better understand and treat Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes.