All Biological Sciences
Nanoparticles combat ageing
Evoluted New Media | Added: 9 Nov 2012
Spanish scientists have developed a nanodevice that may have applications in the future development…
Memories of a sleeping brain
Evoluted New Media | Added: 5 Nov 2012
Researchers have discovered that a region of the brain – involved in learning, memory and Alzheimer…
The sentinel sea cow
Evoluted New Media | Added: 29 Oct 2012
Manatees may reflect the quality of health in marine ecosystems according to a long-term, collabora…
‘Barcode’ blood test for prostate cancer
Evoluted New Media | Added: 26 Oct 2012
A blood test that reads genetic changes like a barcode, and can detect aggressive prostate cancer h…
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…
