Beneath the public galleries of the University of Alaska Museum of the North (UAMN) lies a unique library of life. This library doesn’t lend books or manuscripts; instead, it loans frozen biological ...

Plans are being drawn up for a lunar “Noah’s Ark” to help save endangered species from extinction. The prospective biorepository, a storage facility for frozen samples, would house live tissue samples ...

Amid the climate crisis, is it a good idea to start sending preserved genetic material to the moon? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

Each year millions of biological samples are processed, distributed, and stored worldwide. Currently samples such as DNA, RNA, proteins, bacteria, viruses, tissues, and other biological molecules are ...

Taking images of tiny structures within cells is tricky business. One technique, cryogenic electron tomography (cryoET), shoots electrons through a frozen sample. The images formed by the electrons ...