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Industrial Fellowships for promising researchers

Evoluted New Media | Added: 5 Oct 2016

The Royal Commission of the Exhibition of 1851 has awarded 10 early-career engineers and scientists…

Cell digestion research wins 2016 Nobel Prize

Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Oct 2016

Professor Yoshinori Ohsumi has been awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize for medicine or physiology for his…

Habitat preservation crucial for turtle and tortoise survival

Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Oct 2016

The survival of turtles and tortoises is more dependent on habitat degradation than rising global t…

New sensor technology accelerates blood analysis

Evoluted New Media | Added: 27 Sep 2016

Scientists in York have developed a sensor capable of detecting multiple proteins and enzymes in sm…

New species of trapdoor spider discovered

Evoluted New Media | Added: 20 Sep 2016

A PhD student from Griffith University has discovered a large number of new trapdoor spider species…

Antibody validation guidelines released

Evoluted New Media | Added: 5 Sep 2016

An international working group have published the first proposals for validating antibody specifici…

Astronaut successfully sequences DNA in space

Evoluted New Media | Added: 31 Aug 2016

DNA has been sequenced in space for the first time ever.

Fungi extracts precious elements from batteries

Evoluted New Media | Added: 30 Aug 2016

Researchers in the US have used fungi to extract metals from rechargeable batteries.

Stem cell switch unearthed in flatworms

Evoluted New Media | Added: 25 Aug 2016

Researchers studying flatworms have discovered a ‘ying and yang’ switch that allows for the creatio…

Gene therapy offers different approach to treating depression

Evoluted New Media | Added: 27 Jul 2016

Scientists have shown how manipulating a new target in the brain through gene therapy can lead to n…

Call for epigenetic drug targets for respiratory ailments

Evoluted New Media | Added: 29 Jun 2016

An initiative has been launched to find new epigenetic drug targets for respiratory diseases.

Bubbly oxygen drink could aid cancer treatments

Evoluted New Media | Added: 27 Jun 2016

A drink containing oxygen microbubbles is being developed to make treatment of hard to reach tumour…

£2m grant for researchers to study dementia risks

Evoluted New Media | Added: 22 Jun 2016

A team of researchers from Cardiff, Bristol and Oxford University are set to begin investigating a …

New plant-based vaccine under investigation

Evoluted New Media | Added: 21 Jun 2016

A plant-based polio vaccine, the first of its kind, could be created by a team led by the Universit…

Longer living mice thanks to manipulated telomeres

Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Jun 2016

Scientists have created mice with longer telomeres than their counterparts, resulting in fewer sign…

New frog species discovered

Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Apr 2016

A new species of narrow-mouthed frog has been discovered in India by scientists from the National U…

Evolutionary ancestral gene found

Evoluted New Media | Added: 22 Mar 2016

A common ancestral gene thought to have kick-started evolution has been identified by Canadian scie…

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…

British scientists win neuroscience prize

Evoluted New Media | Added: 7 Mar 2016

A trio of British scientists have won the world’s largest prize for brain research, awarded by the …

Ebola still affects survivors after they recover

Evoluted New Media | Added: 25 Feb 2016

With Ebola survivor Pauline Cafferkey hospitalised after complications with her recovery from the i…