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Food Safety Solutions Firm SafeTraces Raises $1.5m in Series Seed Round
Aug 31, 2016San Francisco Bay Area based food safety solutions firm SafeTraces has raised funds worth $1.5m in a series seed round led by Maumee Ventures, the venture capital arm of The Andersons. The company plans to use the funds to speed up ...
Tags: SafeTraces, Maumee Ventures, seed round
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Chinese Amphibians Identified by DNA Barcodes
Dec 29, 2015Chinese amphibians are now have DNA barcodes since the website "Amphibian China" came online, according to Chinese zoologists. The website, developed by Kunming Institute of Zoology under Chinese Academy of Sciences, provides the ...
Tags: Amphibians, DNA Barcodes
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Methods Used to Depict Food Webs May Have Impact on How We Perceive Their Makeup
Jan 20, 2014Understanding who feeds on whom and how often is the basis for understanding how nature is built and works. A new study now suggests that the methods used to depict food webs may have a strong impact on how we perceive their makeup. Once ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
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The Study Was Published in a Special Issue of The Open Access Journal Zookeys
Jan 2, 2014The ability to sequence the DNA of plants and animals has revolutionized many areas of biology, but the unstable character of DNA poses difficulties for sequencing specimens in museum collection over time. In an attempt to answer these ...
Tags: DNA, biology, sequencing specimens, museum collection
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DNA Barcoding Is Used for The Identification of Known Species and Discovery of New Ones
Jan 2, 2014DNA barcoding is used as an effective tool for both the identification of known species and the discovery of new ones. The core idea of DNA barcoding is based on the fact that just a small portion of a single gene already can show that ...
Tags: DNA barcoding, bird DNA, Naturalis Biodiversity Center
