All Drugs & Pharmaceuticals

The pace and pattern of being
Evoluted New Media | Added: 8 Apr 2016
Maturation in mammals varies widely, but the exact reasons why are still unclear. A new method of m…

What to do with a problem like Zika?
Evoluted New Media | Added: 6 Apr 2016
The current Zika outbreak first began in Brazil in April 2015. It has been strongly linked to newbo…

Anti-cancer drugs eliminate Legionnaires' disease
Evoluted New Media | Added: 31 Mar 2016
Cancer drugs have shown potential after being repurposed to fight the bacteria responsible for Legi…

A personal interpretation
Evoluted New Media | Added: 25 Mar 2016
There is a clear move away from a ‘one size fits all’ approach to medicine and instead a new person…

Data takes on the dopers
Evoluted New Media | Added: 23 Mar 2016
New studies looking at the subtle changes that can occur when human blood is stored could help put …

Symptom or cause? Autism and immune dysfunction
Evoluted New Media | Added: 18 Mar 2016
There are tantalising clues that anomalies in immune function may be related to autism spectrum dis…

Mosquitoes’ reproductive cycle potential drug target
Evoluted New Media | Added: 17 Mar 2016
US scientists are looking at ways to influence how mosquitoes mate to control the diseases they spr…

A map is worth a thousand words
Evoluted New Media | Added: 26 Feb 2016
Vibrational spectroscopy expert Dr Elizabeth Carter tells us how Raman mapping can help examine the…

When does ageing become disease?
Evoluted New Media | Added: 8 Feb 2016
Our understanding of the molecular process of ageing is growing, as such our understanding of risk …

Antidepressants double suicide risk in children
Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 Feb 2016
Children and teenagers who take one of the five most commonly prescribed antidepressants have a dou…

Cholesterol reducing drug could positively affect Parkinson’s
Evoluted New Media | Added: 25 Jan 2016
A trial has begun in the UK to see the effects of cholesterol lowering drug, Simvastin, in those af…

Swimming out from an evolutionary shadow
Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Jan 2016
We hear how the humble turtle has been problematic to classify correctly in an evolutionary context…

Antibiotic resistance could hold key for treating amyloid diseases
Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Jan 2016
Researchers have discovered a method of using antibiotic resistance to find chemicals that stop amy…

Antidepressants show effect on lifespan
Evoluted New Media | Added: 6 Jan 2016
Scientists have begun to understand more about the effects of ageing through experiments on the lif…

Metformin affects diabetic trial studies
Evoluted New Media | Added: 30 Dec 2015
Metformin has been found to have a stronger effect on gut flora than diabetes Type 2, the condition…

Climbing to the cloud
Evoluted New Media | Added: 18 Dec 2015
Bioinformatics needs to change says Dr Thomas Connor and for that to happen we need to look to the …

A fascinating act of cellular cannibalism
Evoluted New Media | Added: 17 Dec 2015
After a century of observing strange acts of cellular cannibalism, Jo Durgan and Oliver Florey tell…

Protein found to affect HA efficacy
Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 Dec 2015
Hyaluronic acid (HA), used to treat osteoarthritis, could be modified to become even more useful fo…

It simply isn’t cricket
Evoluted New Media | Added: 17 Nov 2015
It is well-established that parasites can affect the behaviour of their hosts, but can a parasitica…

The quantum weirdness powering biology
Evoluted New Media | Added: 5 Nov 2015
It allows particles to be in two places at once, pass through impenetrable barriers or maintain spo…