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Scientists have found a way of capturing DNA from snow tracks — a promising non-invasive method of monitoring elusive animals like polar bears. Polar bears are icons of the Arctic, elusive and vulnerable. Detailed monitoring of their populations is crucial for their conservation — but because pol

As rising temperatures threaten the Arctic mammals, scientists are turning to new, non-invasive methods to study them

Scientists have come up with a new way to track polar bears using DNA extracted from skin cells shed inside their paw prints in the snow.

Counting polar bears isn’t easy, but it’s critical to monitor their survival, so a new approach – to extract DNA from their footprints – might help.

Researchers have developed a non-invasive form of DNA analysis using skin cells shed in the bears’ footprints in the snow.

<p>Monitoring the populations of threatened animals like polar bears and snow leopards is crucial to safeguarding these populations for the future. Scientists have now discovered a non-invasive method of capturing DNA from animal tracks in snow which could allow detailed analysis at a distance.</p>

Between 2016 and 2021, over 500 researchers collaborated within the DNAqua-Net international network, funded by the European Union’s European Cooperat....