All Biological Sciences
Sodium key to opioid brain signalling
Evoluted New Media | Added: 17 Feb 2014
A high-resolution 3-D view of an opioid receptor’s atomic structure has resolved the 40-year myster…
Life Sciences awards open
Evoluted New Media | Added: 6 Feb 2014
Cogent SSC are now accepting nominations for the 2014 UK Life Science Skills Awards, aimed at rewar…
Too few unsung heroes
Evoluted New Media | Added: 30 Jan 2014
The honeybee is the unsung hero of the countryside, but there are 13.4 million too few colonies to …
Breakthrough in nanowires
Evoluted New Media | Added: 23 Jan 2014
In a series of papers, researchers have documented a breakthrough in laser action in semiconductor …
Aphids act as pawns to spread viruses
Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Jan 2014
Aphids have become the pawns of crop-infecting viruses which influence their host and force them to…
Chemical structures transferred to public domain
Evoluted New Media | Added: 8 Jan 2014
Patented chemical structures are to be transferred to the public domain, giving researchers access …
Unique organ gives koalas low-pitched call
Evoluted New Media | Added: 19 Dec 2013
Koalas have an unusual mating call; its pitch is about 20 times lower than it should be for an anim…
Rudolf’s eye adaptation copes with extremes
Evoluted New Media | Added: 11 Dec 2013
Reindeers’ eyes have to function in extreme conditions – continuous summer daylight, followed by co…
Acid rain plays role in Great Dying
Evoluted New Media | Added: 29 Nov 2013
Rain as acidic as undiluted lemon juice could have contributed to the Great Dying, a severe mass ex…
New mammalian cell culture facility
Evoluted New Media | Added: 25 Nov 2013
A new mammalian cell culture cGMP manufacturing facility has been opened in Billingham, Teesside by…
Sticky sperm
Evoluted New Media | Added: 20 Nov 2013
Sticky sperm could hold the key to greater success for those undergoing IVF treatment say researche…
Sea louse with second body clock
Evoluted New Media | Added: 11 Nov 2013
The tiny speckled sea louse boasts not one but two body clocks – one for night and day, and one fo…
Science Nobels awarded
Evoluted New Media | Added: 6 Nov 2013
This year’s sciences Nobel Prizes were shared between eight scientists with discoveries ranging fro…
New technique to image cell interior
Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 Nov 2013
A new method of imaging cells is allowing scientists from Queen Mary University of London to see ti…
Plant scientists pick wrong model
Evoluted New Media | Added: 30 Oct 2013
One of the most fundamental processes in the life of plants has been misunderstood by scientists be…
Breaking the blood-brain barrier
Evoluted New Media | Added: 28 Oct 2013
Scientists from the University of Oxford have broken the blood-brain barrier, allowing cancer drugs…
Sorting the good from the bad bacteria
Evoluted New Media | Added: 24 Oct 2013
There are good bacteria and bad bacteria – some coexisting in the same species – and researchers at…
‘Writing’ artificial membranes on graphene
Evoluted New Media | Added: 23 Oct 2013
Graphene has emerged as a versatile new surface on which to assemble model cell membranes mimicking…
Ribosome-building dance
Evoluted New Media | Added: 22 Oct 2013
An important step in building ribosomes is like a strictly choreographed dance say scientists from …
Scientists view 3D chromosomes
Evoluted New Media | Added: 21 Oct 2013
Researchers have been able to model the structure of chromosomes when they are active using a novel…
