All Biological Sciences


Making the Crick… tick

Evoluted New Media | Added: 20 Mar 2019

An intriguing invitation took Dr Emily Scott-Dearing behind the scenes of The Francis Crick Institu…

Spending a penny to battle pandemics

Evoluted New Media | Added: 11 Mar 2019

As the seat-belt light stubbornly refuses to go out, and the three G&Ts sunk even before the pilot …

Chameleon embryo

Evoluted New Media | Added: 5 Mar 2019

This incredible image was awarded ‘Honorable Mention status in the 2018 Nikon Small World competiti…

A word on Watson…

Evoluted New Media | Added: 20 Feb 2019

That a scientist who uncovered the very structure of the code of life should be called out on racis…

Crop crisis

Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Feb 2019

Regardless of where you stand on the ethics of GM food, one thing is undeniable – a recent decision…

Reading the immune system

Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Feb 2019

It is a combination of academia and industry which is helping Aleksandr Kovaltsuk read the logbook …

Human neurons

Evoluted New Media | Added: 6 Feb 2019

This incredible image was awarded ‘Image of Distinction’ status in the 2018 Nikon Small World compe…

Shooting down HIV hope

Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 Feb 2019

When Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down over Ukraine in 2014, all passengers and crew were…

Applications that make the cut

Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 Feb 2019

There’s been a lot of news and hype about CRISPR, but what can it actually do?  Dr Bahri Karacay ta…

The necrosome and the killer zombie proteins

Evoluted New Media | Added: 28 Jan 2019

As cell biologists gets to grips with the relatively recent discovery of non-apoptotic programmed c…

3D printed implant repairs spinal cords

Evoluted New Media | Added: 23 Jan 2019

A 3D-printed implant loaded with neural stem cells has been used to repair severe spinal cord injur…

Liquid gold

Evoluted New Media | Added: 21 Jan 2019

Seventy years ago, a research paper published in France went almost unnoticed, but its findings led…

CRISPR reengineered to block other proteins

Evoluted New Media | Added: 17 Jan 2019

Gene editing tool CRISPR has been repurposed as a gene blocker in order to study antimicrobial resi…

A very complex disturbance

Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Jan 2019

Given what we know about how impactful humans have been on the environment, the idea that we actual…

Swirling bacterium

Evoluted New Media | Added: 9 Jan 2019

Individual bacteria and biofilms can generate currents strong enough to draw distant nutrients, acc…

Seasonal kissing and unfortunate penguins

Evoluted New Media | Added: 7 Jan 2019

So that’s it then. That was the season to be jolly, and now the thick grey coat of January threaten…

Perfecting the inside job

Evoluted New Media | Added: 6 Jan 2019

An industrial fellowship helped Jonathan Vince explore how to avoid the grim side-effects of tradit…

Brain pacemaker controls optogenetics

Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Jan 2019

A miniature wireless implant could allow more efficient optogenetics in the human brain, according …

Bioprocess turns pine needles into new products

Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Jan 2019

A new bioprocess could turn pine needles on abandoned Christmas trees into environmentally friendly…

Self-lighting Christmas trees with synthetic DNA

Evoluted New Media | Added: 24 Dec 2018

 CRISPR gene editing could be used to develop self-lighting Christmas trees, according to Universit…