All Pharmacology


Ruling in CRISPR patent battle

Evoluted New Media | Added: 20 Feb 2017

As a key verdict in the legal battle over exploitation of the CRISPR-Cas9 technology is handed down…

An instrument-free future?

Evoluted New Media | Added: 16 Feb 2017

Molecular diagnostics requires dedicated equipment and electricity – this can present a barrier to…

The prognosis of UK pathology services

Evoluted New Media | Added: 7 Feb 2017

NHS pathology laboratories are under immense pressure to do more with less or face closure. Yet it …

Let’s get real

Evoluted New Media | Added: 24 Jan 2017

The humble petri dish has been a stalwart of the lab for as long as cells have been cultured – but …

Not just another brick in the wall

Evoluted New Media | Added: 12 Jan 2017

Far from being an inert capsule, chemical profiling screenings have revealed that the bacterial cel…

A complex problem...

Evoluted New Media | Added: 9 Jan 2017

It has long puzzled scientists why, after 3 billion years of nothing more complex than algae, anima…

The Three Musketeers

Evoluted New Media | Added: 5 Jan 2017

PARP inhibitors are increasingly becoming seen as a vital tool for use alongside conventional cance…

Understanding Nature’s scalpel

Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Dec 2016

The CRISPR-Cas system is already one of our most important genetic techniques – and it is one honed…

Feel the heat of antimicrobial resistance

Evoluted New Media | Added: 23 Nov 2016

Used by Antoine Lavoisier in the 18th Century, calorimetry is one of the oldest methods of chemical…

Culture clash

Evoluted New Media | Added: 9 Nov 2016

With estimates suggesting they can infect anything between 10-85% of cell lines in a microbiology l…

Has Microsoft made an oncological smart bomb?

Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 Nov 2016

In September, AstraZeneca and Microsoft made headlines for their pioneering ‘drag and drop’ compute…

New map, new thinking

Evoluted New Media | Added: 22 Sep 2016

Dr Emma Robinson tells us how comparing brain function not cortical folding patterns led to a revol…

Patent pending?

Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Sep 2016

When is a health treatment really new? When is a medical treatment really an invention? Patent atto…

Catch them if you can

Evoluted New Media | Added: 12 Sep 2016

When it comes to the performance of your fluorescence microscopy system, every photon is sacred – b…

Ethics of genetics: More than just designer babies

Evoluted New Media | Added: 6 Sep 2016

Work around the human genome and advances in the accessibility and analysis of data, creates huge o…

The super-organism behind Nature’s skyscraper

Evoluted New Media | Added: 11 Aug 2016

Notions of the ‘super-organism’ need to be invoked to truly understand the intelligence behind Natu…

X-ray vision

Evoluted New Media | Added: 9 Aug 2016

Bees navigate by sensing the polarisation of light. We now know that some rainforest-dwelling bees …

Transforming cells to transform lives

Evoluted New Media | Added: 19 Jul 2016

A company in Scotland has devised a novel way to treat type 1 diabetes – producing lab grown islets…

The beauty of the beast

Evoluted New Media | Added: 5 Jul 2016

The enigmatic Tully Monster has become something of a palaeontological icon, yet there is much to l…

Old dog, new tricks

Evoluted New Media | Added: 21 Jun 2016

Have we overlooked some incredible pharmacological properties of aspirin? Martyna Petrulyte takes a…