In a glass jar at the University of Zurich, a lung has been sitting in silence for more than a hundred years. Preserved in formalin, the organ belonged to an 18-year-old Swiss man who died during the ...

The preserved lung of an 18-year-old Swiss man has been used to create the full genome of the 1918 "Spanish flu," the first ...

A groundbreaking study by researchers from the Universities of Basel and Zurich has unlocked one of the most significant ...

Vortex fluidics-mediated DNA rescue from formalin-fixed museum specimens. PLOS ONE, 2020; 15 (1): e0225807 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0225807 ...

Scientists in Switzerland have cracked open a century-old viral mystery by decoding the genome of the 1918 influenza virus ...

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 ...

The museum drawers of pinned bugs and butterflies or shelves with jars with formaldehyde-preserved fish and salamanders will not go the way of the dinosaurs anytime soon, but high-tech imaging is ...

IN March 1950, a fæcal specimen was collected from a patient in the Brisbane General Hospital, who was infected with Ascaris lumbricoides. This was preserved by the addition of hot 10 per cent ...