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 ...

DNA barcoding, formerly a way of identifying DNA within foodstuffs, is now being proposed as a way to catalogue life. At the First International Barcoding Conference, held at the Natural History ...

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.