All Biological Sciences
Chemical camouflage for deadly snake
Evoluted New Media | Added: 2 Feb 2016
Puff adders – the most dangerous snake in Africa – responsible for more than 30,000 deaths every ye…
Food preservative found to kill cancer cells
Evoluted New Media | Added: 27 Jan 2016
A naturally occurring food preservative, nisin, has been found effective at destroying cancer and a…
Cholesterol reducing drug could positively affect Parkinson’s
Evoluted New Media | Added: 25 Jan 2016
A trial has begun in the UK to see the effects of cholesterol lowering drug, Simvastin, in those af…
Brain inflammation link found in Alzheimer’s study
Evoluted New Media | Added: 22 Jan 2016
Blocking receptors in the brain responsible for controlling immune cells could protect against chan…
Microscopic subway passengers with a ticket to ride
Evoluted New Media | Added: 22 Jan 2016
A complete map of the microbiome of the New York City subway system? It’s possible – and all it tak…
Bacterium ‘taught’ to photosynthesise
Evoluted New Media | Added: 20 Jan 2016
Researchers have managed to induce a bacterium to perform photosynthesis.
Swimming out from an evolutionary shadow
Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Jan 2016
We hear how the humble turtle has been problematic to classify correctly in an evolutionary context…
Antibiotic resistance could hold key for treating amyloid diseases
Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Jan 2016
Researchers have discovered a method of using antibiotic resistance to find chemicals that stop amy…
Humans evolved to sleep more efficiently
Evoluted New Media | Added: 13 Jan 2016
Humans sleep more efficiently than our closest relatives, according to research by scientists.
Antimicrobial resistance – a disaster in the making?
Evoluted New Media | Added: 8 Jan 2016
After the emergence of yet another antibiotic resistance mechanism in the form of MCR-1, the future…
Antidepressants show effect on lifespan
Evoluted New Media | Added: 6 Jan 2016
Scientists have begun to understand more about the effects of ageing through experiments on the lif…
Umbilical stem cells help retinal neurons grow
Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 Jan 2016
Cells found in human umbilical cord tissue could be used in future treatment of degenerative eye di…
Molecules that dominate bacterial secretion created
Evoluted New Media | Added: 23 Dec 2015
Chemists have created molecules that mimic and dominate toxic molecules secreted by bacteria.
Climbing to the cloud
Evoluted New Media | Added: 18 Dec 2015
Bioinformatics needs to change says Dr Thomas Connor and for that to happen we need to look to the …
A fascinating act of cellular cannibalism
Evoluted New Media | Added: 17 Dec 2015
After a century of observing strange acts of cellular cannibalism, Jo Durgan and Oliver Florey tell…
Lead exposure can affect children’s sleep
Evoluted New Media | Added: 16 Dec 2015
Lead exposure in early childhood can increase the risk for sleep problems, new study finds.
Ancient bees collected pollen in two ways
Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Dec 2015
The ancestors of honeybees that lived 50 million years ago collected pollen in two ways.
Brain mechanism for durable memories revealed
Evoluted New Media | Added: 10 Dec 2015
Rehearsing information immediately after being given it may be all you need to make it a permanent …
Chicken study reveals speedy and dynamic evolution
Evoluted New Media | Added: 7 Dec 2015
Mutations in chicken genomes suggest that evolution rates could occur 15 times faster than previous…
Life hits 4.1 billion years
Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Dec 2015
New evidence suggests that life on Earth began 300 million years earlier than previously thought.
