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 ...

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 ...

The fluids most widely used for long-term museum conservation are solutions of alcohols, such as ethanol, and formalin, a dilute solution of formaldehyde. Museums worldwide have been preparing and ...

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 ...

ONE of the great handicaps in making attractive to the ordinary museum visitor specimens of the smaller organisms has been the need for mounting such in formaldehyde, alcohol, or other fluid, which ...

Hazardous materials teams responded to Nashua High School South on Friday after a student dropped a small glass jar containing a stone crab specimen, spilling formaldehyde in the classroom. Nashua ...

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