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 ...

Collecting plant and animal specimens is essential for scientific studies and conservation and does not, as some critics of the practice have suggested, play a significant role in species extinctions.

There has been increasing concern in the biomedical community about the use of biological specimens obtained during clinical research. Current Federal regulations set out criteria for the use of ...

In 1871, a naturalist aboard the U.S.S. Polaris collected scientific specimens — and possibly poisoned the ship’s captain Chihiro Kai An 1880 portrait of Emil Bessels, the surgeon and chief scientist ...

As a graduate student working out of Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History, evolutionary biologist Shane DuBay noticed soot clinging to the bird specimens he handled. Like many researchers, he ...

A new "compassionate collection" proposal has gotten museum curators thinking about preservation methods. Museums house thousands of animal specimens that are ancient, extinct, newly discovered and ...

Museum specimens held in natural history collections around the world represent a wealth of underutilized genetic information due to the poor state of preservation of the DNA, which often makes it ...

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Findings from our exclusive investigation into suspicious specimens of use Learnings include use of spurious Amazon listings on trademark applications Call for the trademark community’s insights on ...