All Biological Sciences


Leap forward made in synthetic biology

Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Apr 2017

An international team of more than 200 researchers have made significant progress in building an or…

Discovery prompts evolutionary history rethink

Evoluted New Media | Added: 27 Mar 2017

The discovery of fossilised algae suggests that advanced multicellular life evolved much earlier th…

Antibiotics linked to bee population dive

Evoluted New Media | Added: 23 Mar 2017

The mystery around increasing bee deaths and colony collapse disorder may be linked to antibiotics.

Who’d win a fight between Godzilla and a T. rex?

Evoluted New Media | Added: 21 Mar 2017

Following on from How Many Moons Does the Earth Have? Popular science writer Brian Clegg is back wi…

Berry aids brain function improvement

Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Mar 2017

Concentrated blueberry juice has been found to improve brain function in the elderly, according to …

A taste for understanding

Evoluted New Media | Added: 7 Mar 2017

As consumers become ever more label savvy, demand for foods with fewer ingredients is growing – but…

A right royal success

Evoluted New Media | Added: 6 Mar 2017

Following a fellowship award from the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851, Alice Hagan set …

The eyes have it for deep sea squid’s survival

Evoluted New Media | Added: 23 Feb 2017

The first behavioural evidence for why a deep sea squid has developed an ocular oddity has been col…

Less is more for the gatekeeper of oncology

Evoluted New Media | Added: 21 Feb 2017

Late last year Dr Tony Ocasio discovered a first generation cancer inhibitor. Here he talks about t…

How’s your game?

Evoluted New Media | Added: 21 Feb 2017

Reliable, precise and trusted – however, a pipette performs only as well as the operator’s techniqu…

Ruling in CRISPR patent battle

Evoluted New Media | Added: 20 Feb 2017

As a key verdict in the legal battle over exploitation of the CRISPR-Cas9 technology is handed down…

An instrument-free future?

Evoluted New Media | Added: 16 Feb 2017

Molecular diagnostics requires dedicated equipment and electricity – this can present a barrier to…

Optogenetics breakthrough achieved in Japan

Evoluted New Media | Added: 9 Feb 2017

Light has been successfully used by a Japanese researcher to manipulate gene expression to produce …

The prognosis of UK pathology services

Evoluted New Media | Added: 7 Feb 2017

NHS pathology laboratories are under immense pressure to do more with less or face closure. Yet it …

Tissue reuse scheme expanding its reach

Evoluted New Media | Added: 2 Feb 2017

The University of Leeds is leading a scheme to reduce the number of animals needed for biomedical r…

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…

Novel climate predictions aim to help save coral reefs worldwide

Evoluted New Media | Added: 11 Jan 2017

A set of new climate model projections will enable conservationists to understand which coral reefs…

Immunity’s genetic link discovered

Evoluted New Media | Added: 10 Jan 2017

Almost 75% of immune traits are influenced by genes, according to researchers at King’s College Lon…

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…