DNA in preserved museum specimens can allow scientists to explore the history of species and humanities impact on the ecosystem, but samples are typically preserved in formaldehyde which can damage ...

Medical students at Dalhousie University won't be learning anatomy by working with cadavers this year after the laboratory ...

Jan. 31 (UPI) --The answers to questions about the origins and evolutionary history of a variety of plant and animals, living and extinct, are hiding in the DNA strands of museum specimens. Scientists ...

Human brains stored in jars of formaldehyde at the University of Texas in Austin and reported to be missing were actually destroyed in 2002, school officials said on Wednesday. Environmental workers ...

The museum drawers of pinned bugs and butterflies or shelves with jars with formaldehyde-preserved fish and salamanders will not go the way of the dinosaurs anytime soon, but high-tech imaging is ...