All Biology

Let’s get real
Evoluted New Media | Added: 24 Jan 2017
The humble petri dish has been a stalwart of the lab for as long as cells have been cultured – but …

Not just another brick in the wall
Evoluted New Media | Added: 12 Jan 2017
Far from being an inert capsule, chemical profiling screenings have revealed that the bacterial cel…

A complex problem...
Evoluted New Media | Added: 9 Jan 2017
It has long puzzled scientists why, after 3 billion years of nothing more complex than algae, anima…

The Three Musketeers
Evoluted New Media | Added: 5 Jan 2017
PARP inhibitors are increasingly becoming seen as a vital tool for use alongside conventional cance…

Understanding Nature’s scalpel
Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Dec 2016
The CRISPR-Cas system is already one of our most important genetic techniques – and it is one honed…

Antibody crisis: Order from chaos
Evoluted New Media | Added: 23 Nov 2016
As we slowly come to terms with the damage caused by the antibody validation crisis – there is hope…

Feel the heat of antimicrobial resistance
Evoluted New Media | Added: 23 Nov 2016
Used by Antoine Lavoisier in the 18th Century, calorimetry is one of the oldest methods of chemical…

Culture clash
Evoluted New Media | Added: 9 Nov 2016
With estimates suggesting they can infect anything between 10-85% of cell lines in a microbiology l…

Has Microsoft made an oncological smart bomb?
Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 Nov 2016
In September, AstraZeneca and Microsoft made headlines for their pioneering ‘drag and drop’ compute…

It’s biology Jim, but not as we know it...
Evoluted New Media | Added: 13 Oct 2016
After his appearance at Lab Innovations – we hear from physicist and all-round science hero Profess…

New map, new thinking
Evoluted New Media | Added: 22 Sep 2016
Dr Emma Robinson tells us how comparing brain function not cortical folding patterns led to a revol…

Patent pending?
Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Sep 2016
When is a health treatment really new? When is a medical treatment really an invention? Patent atto…

Coming together for microbiology
Evoluted New Media | Added: 13 Sep 2016
From forensic post-mortems to veterinary pathogen drug resistance – two burgeoning microbiological …

Catch them if you can
Evoluted New Media | Added: 12 Sep 2016
When it comes to the performance of your fluorescence microscopy system, every photon is sacred – b…

Ethics of genetics: More than just designer babies
Evoluted New Media | Added: 6 Sep 2016
Work around the human genome and advances in the accessibility and analysis of data, creates huge o…

The super-organism behind Nature’s skyscraper
Evoluted New Media | Added: 11 Aug 2016
Notions of the ‘super-organism’ need to be invoked to truly understand the intelligence behind Natu…

X-ray vision
Evoluted New Media | Added: 9 Aug 2016
Bees navigate by sensing the polarisation of light. We now know that some rainforest-dwelling bees …

Transforming cells to transform lives
Evoluted New Media | Added: 19 Jul 2016
A company in Scotland has devised a novel way to treat type 1 diabetes – producing lab grown islets…

Who’s your daddy?
Evoluted New Media | Added: 8 Jul 2016
AlphaBioLabs provide DNA paternity, drug and alcohol testing services and are the only lab used by …

The beauty of the beast
Evoluted New Media | Added: 5 Jul 2016
The enigmatic Tully Monster has become something of a palaeontological icon, yet there is much to l…