All Medical Diagnostics


Same mechanism implicated in type-1 and type-2 diabetes

Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Sep 2014

Both type-1 and type-2 diabetes are caused by the same underlying mechanism say researchers in Manc…

New clue to sudden cardiac death in children

Evoluted New Media | Added: 12 Aug 2014

Cardiff University researchers have discovered a cause of sudden cardiac death in young children, o…

Self-assembling nanoparticle could aid cancer diagnosis

Evoluted New Media | Added: 29 Jul 2014

A new self-assembling nanoparticle which targets cancerous tumours could boost the effectiveness of…

Polymorphism increases risk of stroke and heart attack

Evoluted New Media | Added: 21 Jul 2014

A genetic variant found in platelets is associated with an increased risk of stroke and heart attac…

Liquid biopsy to track lung cancer

Evoluted New Media | Added: 18 Jun 2014

A liquid biopsy using a patient’s blood sample could offer a new way to track lung cancer say resea…

Soft touch gone awry in autism

Evoluted New Media | Added: 5 Jun 2014

Nerves in the skin that respond to gentle touch may go awry in disorders such as autism say researc…

H10N8 bird flu unlikely to threaten public health

Evoluted New Media | Added: 29 May 2014

H10N8, the most recent avian influenza virus to infect humans, is unlikely to cause a threat to pub…

Giving life to the dead: Barts Pathology Museum's Carla Valentine

Evoluted New Media | Added: 13 Dec 2013

Carla Valentine gives life to the dead – not only does she ensure the preservation of 5,000 specime…

Fibre-optic pen aids understanding of dyslexia

Evoluted New Media | Added: 21 Jun 2013

A fibre-optic pen developed at the University of Washington will help scientists to see inside the …

Talking cancer-beating proton beams with Professor Carsten Welsch

Evoluted New Media | Added: 26 May 2013

There is more to accelerator physics than just smashing sub atomic particles against each other and…

Frog-like robots to assist surgery

Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 May 2013

A tiny robot inspired by the feet of tree-frogs is being built at the University of Leeds. The devi…

Professor Andrew Harrison: Bringing neutrons to the masses

Evoluted New Media | Added: 7 Mar 2013

Neutrons can be used to answer questions in most scientific disciplines says Professor Andrew Harri…

‘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…

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…

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…

Returning bumblebees to Britain’s countryside

Evoluted New Media | Added: 10 Aug 2012

Bumble bees are important for pollination of plants and crops, but certain species are threatened w…

There’s no story quite like our own - Jon Agar

Evoluted New Media | Added: 12 Jul 2012

There’s no story quite like our own – we catch up with an author who has tackled the history of sci…

Exploring the world under our feet with Paul Younger

Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 May 2012

One scientist plays Indiana Jones to explore the world beneath our feet!--more--

Paul Younger has ph…

Mary Ryan tries to save the last Flying Pencil

Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 Feb 2012

Drs Mary Ryan and Amy Cruickshank are in a race against time to save the last remaining intact Flyi…

Award winning lecturer Chick C Wilson

Evoluted New Media | Added: 23 Nov 2011

This month we catch up with a chemist from Bath who’s been lecturing on misbehaving molecules
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