A fossil miner, Rick Hebdon, sold a collection of 50 specimens from the site to the Field Museum last year for an undisclosed sum.
Unusual found objects – glass conicals, turtle shells, a collection of botanical specimens in jars of formaldehyde – are positioned artfully throughout the rooms.
Paul Elliman fashioned a collection of mineral specimens from discarded materials like plastic pen pieces ("quartz") and metallic plastic bags ("pyrite").
In addition to the above well-known genera, a collection of cycad specimens from northwestern Colombia included a new genus now described under the name Chigua.
With the development of human microbiome research, it is inevitable that a growing number of biobanks will include a collection of microbiota specimens required for genomic studies.
And plans to close the Pathological Museum, a collection of medical specimens and curiosities at Charité, the Berlin Medical University, are raising an outcry among doctors and scientists.
The goal of the present study was to investigate the methylation patterns of CpG dinucleotides contained within the LCR of the HPV16 genome in a collection of clinical specimens comprising the full spectrum of cervical carcinogenesis.
Their latest restrospective "The Scent of Light" featured not only some of our favorite interactive installations, like the scientific theory-inspired Lost In Pascal's Triangle and PRISMA1666, but also a light installation created by hundreds of LED flowers, and a collection of natural specimens that illutrates how design and creative ideas often originate from the natural environment around us.
To further assess the clinical significance of STAG2 expression in human tumors, we screened a TMA containing a collection of 344 specimens obtained from resected German patients (Additional file 3).
In the present work, study of a collection of disc specimens from control and surgical patients has shown that the architectural features of collagen crimping in the annulus can be disrupted in three fashions.
