All Biological Sciences

Onion-like vesicle for drug delivery
Evoluted New Media | Added: 24 Jun 2014
A drug delivery vesicle akin to an onion has been developed by researchers at the University of Pen…

Caging water to study spin
Evoluted New Media | Added: 23 Jun 2014
A pioneering method of caging and cooling water molecules to study its nuclear spin conversion coul…

Breakthrough against antibiotic resistance
Evoluted New Media | Added: 23 Jun 2014
A breakthrough in the race to solve antibiotic resistance has been made by a team from the Universi…

US researchers exposed to live anthrax
Evoluted New Media | Added: 20 Jun 2014
Failure to adhere to proper procedure means as many as 75 scientists in America may have been expos…

Four new genes confirmed to increase familial breast cancer risk
Evoluted New Media | Added: 20 Jun 2014
Four new genes have been added to those already known to increase the risk of familial breast cance…

Statins of questionable value
Evoluted New Media | Added: 19 Jun 2014
Drugs designed to lower the levels of “bad cholesterol” in the blood could condemn middle-aged adul…

Liquid biopsy to track lung cancer
Evoluted New Media | Added: 18 Jun 2014
A liquid biopsy using a patient’s blood sample could offer a new way to track lung cancer say resea…

One-size-fits-all synthetic blood
Evoluted New Media | Added: 16 Jun 2014
Donated blood has a short shelf-life – only 35 days for red cells – but now researchers in Essex ho…

Proteome catalogue reveals 193 unknown proteins
Evoluted New Media | Added: 13 Jun 2014
A proteome catalogue has revealed 193 novel proteins in regions of the genome not predicted to code…

Molecular scaffold key to neurodegenerative disease
Evoluted New Media | Added: 13 Jun 2014
A molecular scaffold that allows key parts of the cell to communicate falls apart in dementia and m…

That ‘gut feeling’ explained
Evoluted New Media | Added: 11 Jun 2014
By severing the brain-gut communication channel, researchers have got to the bottom of the proverbi…

Deep sea root of marine evolution sparks controversy
Evoluted New Media | Added: 11 Jun 2014
The deep ocean may have played a much bigger role in protecting marine diversity than first thought…

Incentives needed to encourage data sharing
Evoluted New Media | Added: 10 Jun 2014
New types of incentives within the biomedical research community are necessary to improve sharing o…

New method to detect counterfeit drugs
Evoluted New Media | Added: 9 Jun 2014
Counterfeit medicines could now be detected more efficiently thanks to a new chemical analysis meth…

Soft touch gone awry in autism
Evoluted New Media | Added: 5 Jun 2014
Nerves in the skin that respond to gentle touch may go awry in disorders such as autism say researc…

Combating drug resistance in melanoma
Evoluted New Media | Added: 2 Jun 2014
Resistance to a treatment for advanced melanoma could be prevented by blocking a druggable family o…

Leap in modelling cardiovascular disease
Evoluted New Media | Added: 30 May 2014
American scientists have made a huge leap forward in genetic modelling after growing functioning hu…

Neutron analysis reveals cancer drug clustering
Evoluted New Media | Added: 30 May 2014
Cancer pharmaceuticals currently have to be administered intravenously because of a tendency for so…

Over £47m for investment in early-stage UK life sciences
Evoluted New Media | Added: 29 May 2014
International venture capital firm Epidarex Capital has raised over £47.5 million to lead investmen…

H10N8 bird flu unlikely to threaten public health
Evoluted New Media | Added: 29 May 2014
H10N8, the most recent avian influenza virus to infect humans, is unlikely to cause a threat to pub…