All Biological Sciences


Fear skews spatial perception

Evoluted New Media | Added: 25 Oct 2012

Fear can skew our spatial perception of approaching objects, suggests a study published in Current …

Modelling embryo development

Evoluted New Media | Added: 24 Oct 2012

Biologists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have studied how gene networks contr…

Serpentine solution for heart disease

Evoluted New Media | Added: 23 Oct 2012

Researchers have identified two proteins, including one from snake venom that may have applications…

Robots with whiskers

Evoluted New Media | Added: 22 Oct 2012

Whisker-possessing, rodent-like robots with innovative tactile sensor systems have been developed t…

Stem cells, quantum physics and fight or flight: The Nobel winners 2012

Evoluted New Media | Added: 20 Oct 2012

The most prestigious and publicised awards in the science world were announced last month. Stem cel…

Detecting disease beneath the skin

Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Oct 2012

An international team of researchers has developed an advanced optics system to noninvasively detec…

Molecule to reverse fragile X syndrome

Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Oct 2012

A compound that shows promise in therapy for one of the diseases closely linked to fragile X syndro…

Green tea may boost brain cell production

Evoluted New Media | Added: 12 Oct 2012

Green tea possesses chemical properties that increase the production of brain cells, providing bene…

Tough and stretchy gel created for cartilage replacements

Evoluted New Media | Added: 5 Oct 2012

Harvard material scientists and bioengineers have developed an extremely tough and stretchy biocomp…

New genetic variants linked to bipolar disorder

Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Oct 2012

Scientists have gained new understanding of the origin of bipolar disorder by identifying genetic v…

Stopping cancer in its tracks

Evoluted New Media | Added: 24 Sep 2012

Cancer can be stopped in its tracks by a mutant gene, without any outside help from toxic chemother…

Skin cancer found in fish

Evoluted New Media | Added: 21 Sep 2012

Skin cancer has been identified for the first time in wild coral trout populations in the Great Bar…

Relief for hay fever sufferers: pollen-free house plants developed

Evoluted New Media | Added: 19 Sep 2012

Pollen-free plants can be produced by targeting two bacterial genes into the houseplant Pelargonium…

Dedicated biomedical start-up office at LSP

Evoluted New Media | Added: 19 Sep 2012

SPARK Impact has teamed up with Liverpool Science Park (LSP) to launch an office dedicated to start…

Mathematicians solve biologists’ problem

Evoluted New Media | Added: 19 Sep 2012

Mathematicians may have solved a long-standing biological puzzle that had confounded molecular biol…

Packing a powerful punch

Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Sep 2012

Brain scans of karate experts have revealed distinctive features in the structure of white matter w…

Mini molecular targets for obesity

Evoluted New Media | Added: 13 Sep 2012

Researchers have discovered that  microRNAs affect how our cells burn fat and sugar – a finding tha…

From plane to patient

Evoluted New Media | Added: 12 Sep 2012

Technology pioneered in the aviation industry could be used to prevent complications after heart su…

Green Antarctica

Evoluted New Media | Added: 10 Sep 2012

Antarctica was once home to a warm rainforest dominated by palms and trees, and a mountain forest w…

Protecting the heart against CO poisoning

Evoluted New Media | Added: 7 Sep 2012

A common anti-angina drug could help protect the heart against the effects of carbon monoxide poiso…