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The oldest unevolved organism

April 20, 2015
Scientists have discovered a deep-sea microorganism that shows no evidence of evolution in the last 2 billion years. A research team at the University of California – Los Angeles (UCLA)...

Going with the flow for medicine assembly line

April 15, 2015
Kerry Gilmore tells us how he is planning to revolutionise the individual batch approach to drug production… Science developed as a means to help us gain a sense of understanding...

Mini-lungs to help the study of cystic fibrosis

April 14, 2015
By using stem cells, scientists have created what they refer to as mini-lungs to aid cystic fibrosis studies. Scientists at the University of Cambridge used stem cells derived from the...

Training the next generation of archaeogeneticists

April 9, 2015
A new research centre will be used to train the next generation of specialists in the field of archaeogenetics.The Centre for Evolutionary Genomics at the University of Huddersfield will be...

Pain intensity signals in the brain identified

April 7, 2015
A new technique has been developed to detect the area of the brain involved in the process of pain intensity detection.Neurologists at the Oxford Centre for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging...

Disease-in-a-dish takes autism research to the next level

April 2, 2015
As a result of the delay in autism treatment, scientists propose ‘disease-in-a-dish’ approach to speed up the progress. A research team at the University of California in San Diego believe...

Stem cells to repair damaged tissue

April 1, 2015
Researchers have developed a method to grow stem cells that can repair damaged connective tissue.Scientists at the University of Manchester used rats with joint defects and grew embryonic stem cells...

Sour milk mystery unravelled

March 30, 2015
After 60 years of research, scientists have found the reason why milk turns sour when exposed to sunlight. Scientists at the Norwegian Institute of Food used a sensory panel to...

Bacteria in high resolution

March 27, 2015
Scientists have captured the first high resolution X-ray image of living bacteria. A research team from Uppsala University used X-ray diffraction to capture living blue-green bacteria - known as cyanobacteria...

Origin of new lineages of human AIDS discovered

March 26, 2015
Two new lineages of the virus which causes AIDS have been found to originate from western lowland gorillas. A research team used viral RNA sequencing techniques and discovered the origins...

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