Is DNA barcoding the answer? Investigations in New York’s Chinatown are a regular occurrence, but Sergios-Orestis Kolokotronis’ mission was purely scientific. The professor of genetics at ...

DNA barcoding, as the name suggests, was designed to make identifying a species as simple as scanning a supermarket barcode. Image Source / Alamy The herbivores that roam the African savannah are ...

C. Ebach and C. Holdrege in Correspondence, that “DNA barcoding is no substitute for taxonomy” (Nature 434, 697; 200510.1038/434697b). CBOL views barcoding as a useful tool for taxonomists and ...

The Oxford Nanopore device holds a flow cell, containing an array of nanopores -- very small holes -- that are able to read the electrical signature from each DNA barcode that passes through them.