…and the growing numbers of whale-watchers affirm this truth. The oceans, like the heavens, offer a preferred route to increasing public understanding of the world in which we live, and…
…that DNA barcode detection of food fraud (not just fish) was front-page news in Washington Post in March 2010 and the potential educational market is also large. I look forward…
…in total representing the rest of the approximately 10,000 species of world birds. According to Clements’ Birds of the World (including updates through 2006), there are 9,919 recognized species. The…
Today’s New York Times Science Times section has an article A Species in a Second: Promise of DNA ‘Bar Codes’ with a good history of the DNA Barcode project and…
This paper first appeared in: Scientific Cooperation, State Conflict: The Role of Scientists in Mitigating International Discord, A. L. de Cerreno and A. Keynan, eds, Annals of the New York Academy…
Fred Pearce, BioMedNet News, www.bmn.com Amsterdam — Planet Earth is on the verge of a “great restoration” of nature – or it will be, provided humanity takes the right tack…
…our investigation has attracted press coverage including New York Times print and online editions and internationally in 65 news sites and 14 countries, including India and China, world centers of…
…before propeller-driven ships and boats spanned the globe? https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-climate-research-i/pandemic-offers-scientists-unprecedented-chance-to-hear-oceans-as-they-once-were-idUSKBN23F1M3 even picked up by the New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2020/06/08/us/08reuters-health-coronavirus-climate-research-insight.html and in the hard copy edition of the Washington Post. The 2009…
…in the environment. We found tell-tale DNA in dried-out horse manure in Central Park, a pigeon feather on the sidewalk and a shed snakeskin. DNAHouse attracted news interest New York Times: “Through…
Kate Stoeckle and Louisa Strauss presented “DNA Barcoding reveals mislabeled fish in New York City market” at the AAAS Annual Meeting on February 19 in San Diego, CA. The talk…