All Biological Sciences


New type of stem cell discovered

Evoluted New Media | Added: 17 Oct 2014

The naïve-like stem cell – a type so elusive it was thought not to exist – has been found by scient…

Lipid membrane ink gives nanometre resolution

Evoluted New Media | Added: 16 Oct 2014

Lipid membranes have been used as a biological ‘ink’ to draw in the nanometre region in a new techn…

‘Perfect storm’ led to spread of HIV

Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Oct 2014

A ‘perfect storm’ led to the global spread of the HIV pandemic, which has its roots in Kinshasa, th…

Implants linked to new sub-type of lymphoma

Evoluted New Media | Added: 13 Oct 2014

Silicon-coated breast implants could be responsible for a new subtype of a rare but malignant lymph…

Six faces of Streptococcus

Evoluted New Media | Added: 10 Oct 2014

Like the faces of a die, Streptococcus pneumonia has six unique states it can switch to making it a…

BCRA2 involved in DNA repair

Evoluted New Media | Added: 9 Oct 2014

New images have revealed how BRCA2 works to repair damaged DNA.!--more-- The protein was known to …

Nobel round-up

Evoluted New Media | Added: 8 Oct 2014

In case you missed them, here is Laboratory News’ round-up of who won what in this year’s Nobel Pri…

Brain’s inner GPS wins Nobel Prize

Evoluted New Media | Added: 6 Oct 2014

The inner GPS of the brain, which makes it possible for us to orient ourselves in space has won Joh…

IL-25 target for asthma attacks caused by colds

Evoluted New Media | Added: 6 Oct 2014

A small molecule called interleukin-25 might play a central role in asthma attacks brought on by th…

£125m to train next generation of bioscientists

Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Oct 2014

Funding of £125m over the next five years is being made available to support the training and devel…

Anthrax is new drug delivery vehicle

Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Oct 2014

Anthrax doesn’t seem like the go-to vehicle for delivering cancer drugs, but researchers from MIT h…

Jamming bacterial ‘shredder’ could fight infection

Evoluted New Media | Added: 29 Sep 2014

By jamming their ‘paper shredder’, scientists might be able to drown deadly bacteria in their own p…

Queen’s to head £6m cancer prevention initiative

Evoluted New Media | Added: 29 Sep 2014

Queen’s University in Belfast are to spearhead a £6 million initiative to find better ways to preve…

Plumage no sacrifice for peacocks

Evoluted New Media | Added: 25 Sep 2014

Peacocks are known for their long iridescent feathers which they use to attract a mate, but their d…

AMS show modern humans and Neanderthals overlapped

Evoluted New Media | Added: 23 Sep 2014

Strong evidence that Neanderthals overlapped with modern humans for up to 5,400 years has been reve…

Freshwater springs likely played role in early human evolution

Evoluted New Media | Added: 18 Sep 2014

The ability to move and seek out new sources of groundwater in dry periods may have been pivotal to…

Autism therapy could eliminate symptoms

Evoluted New Media | Added: 16 Sep 2014

A new therapy aimed at treating infants as young as 6-months-old who exhibit signs of autism has sh…

Why do HIV patients develop dementia?

Evoluted New Media | Added: 11 Sep 2014

Life expectancy for patients with HIV has increased thanks to combination anti-retroviral therapy, …

New heart drug beats current gold standard

Evoluted New Media | Added: 10 Sep 2014

Clinical trials of a new drug to treat heart failure were brought to an early close after results s…

Protein synthesis offer clues to memory loss

Evoluted New Media | Added: 9 Sep 2014

A new method of identifying proteins as they are created in the body could offer insight into why l…