All Biological Sciences
£2m grant for researchers to study dementia risks
Evoluted New Media | Added: 22 Jun 2016
A team of researchers from Cardiff, Bristol and Oxford University are set to begin investigating a …
Old dog, new tricks
Evoluted New Media | Added: 21 Jun 2016
Have we overlooked some incredible pharmacological properties of aspirin? Martyna Petrulyte takes a…
New plant-based vaccine under investigation
Evoluted New Media | Added: 21 Jun 2016
A plant-based polio vaccine, the first of its kind, could be created by a team led by the Universit…
Longer living mice thanks to manipulated telomeres
Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Jun 2016
Scientists have created mice with longer telomeres than their counterparts, resulting in fewer sign…
From the front line
Evoluted New Media | Added: 19 May 2016
We hear from Professor Daouda Ndiaye – a Senegalese researcher taking on malaria – about a new test…
Did the dinosaurs suffer with malaria?
Evoluted New Media | Added: 16 May 2016
A new analysis of the prehistoric origin of malaria suggests that it evolved in insects at least 10…
Come on feel the noise
Evoluted New Media | Added: 18 Apr 2016
Dr Adele Murrell fills us in on a new approach to making sense of "junk" DNA and RNA "noise" to fig…
New frog species discovered
Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Apr 2016
A new species of narrow-mouthed frog has been discovered in India by scientists from the National U…
The pace and pattern of being
Evoluted New Media | Added: 8 Apr 2016
Maturation in mammals varies widely, but the exact reasons why are still unclear. A new method of m…
What to do with a problem like Zika?
Evoluted New Media | Added: 6 Apr 2016
The current Zika outbreak first began in Brazil in April 2015. It has been strongly linked to newbo…
A personal interpretation
Evoluted New Media | Added: 25 Mar 2016
There is a clear move away from a ‘one size fits all’ approach to medicine and instead a new person…
Data takes on the dopers
Evoluted New Media | Added: 23 Mar 2016
New studies looking at the subtle changes that can occur when human blood is stored could help put …
Evolutionary ancestral gene found
Evoluted New Media | Added: 22 Mar 2016
A common ancestral gene thought to have kick-started evolution has been identified by Canadian scie…
Symptom or cause? Autism and immune dysfunction
Evoluted New Media | Added: 18 Mar 2016
There are tantalising clues that anomalies in immune function may be related to autism spectrum dis…
Mosquitoes’ reproductive cycle potential drug target
Evoluted New Media | Added: 17 Mar 2016
US scientists are looking at ways to influence how mosquitoes mate to control the diseases they spr…
British scientists win neuroscience prize
Evoluted New Media | Added: 7 Mar 2016
A trio of British scientists have won the world’s largest prize for brain research, awarded by the …
A map is worth a thousand words
Evoluted New Media | Added: 26 Feb 2016
Vibrational spectroscopy expert Dr Elizabeth Carter tells us how Raman mapping can help examine the…
Ebola still affects survivors after they recover
Evoluted New Media | Added: 25 Feb 2016
With Ebola survivor Pauline Cafferkey hospitalised after complications with her recovery from the i…
New method to control bee parasite
Evoluted New Media | Added: 9 Feb 2016
A way to control a parasitic mite that is responsible for the dwindling number of bee colonies worl…
Earthworm threatens diversity
Evoluted New Media | Added: 8 Feb 2016
The earthworm may threaten plant diversity in ecosystems, according to Canadian researchers.
