Poachers are using a sneaky loophole to bypass the international ivory trade ban—by passing off illegal elephant ivory as ...

There are concerns that this is happening with mammoth and elephant ivories." The post Scientists develop new tool to detect ...

A new forensic test could help identify poached elephant ivory being disguised and smuggled as legal mammoth tusks.

Molecular Characterization of Adipose Tissue in the African Elephant (Loxodonta africana). PLoS ONE , 2014; 9 (3): e91717 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0091717 Cite This Page : ...

A research team from The University of Nottingham has carried out the first molecular characterisation of the African elephant's adipose tissue -- body fat. This new information will form the ...

The full paper, 'The Elephant evolved p53 isoforms that escape mdm2-mediated repression and cancer' is available in Molecular Biology and Evolution. Source: University of Oxford ...

1. Singapore, Jan, 09, 2014 - Scientists at A*STAR's Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IMCB) led an international team of researchers that sequenced and analysed the genome of the elephant ...