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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…

Speedier diagnosis using new genomic mapping technique

Evoluted New Media | Added: 8 Aug 2014

Canadian researchers have developed a technique for massive parallel genomic analysis of long DNA m…

Daily aspirin could keep cancer away

Evoluted New Media | Added: 6 Aug 2014

Taking aspirin daily could significantly reduce the risk of developing major cancers of the digesti…

New non-coding RNA discovered

Evoluted New Media | Added: 6 Aug 2014

A new species of non-coding RNA has been discovered by researchers in Germany, who believe these se…

Underinvestment in antibacterial research

Evoluted New Media | Added: 5 Aug 2014

Less than 1% of public and charitable funding from bodies in the UK was awarded to antibiotics rese…

Cell division ‘master key’ protein structure revealed

Evoluted New Media | Added: 31 Jul 2014

One of the most important proteins found in nature has been mapped by scientists from the Institute…

Malaria research close to understanding parasite lifecycle

Evoluted New Media | Added: 30 Jul 2014

A Nottingham researcher who had malaria seven times as a child is close to understanding the life-c…

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…

Control protein switch found

Evoluted New Media | Added: 28 Jul 2014

Research from Dundee has revealed how a complex protein pivotal in the development of cancer, autoi…

Doing the walk of life

Evoluted New Media | Added: 25 Jul 2014

For 50 million years, animals have used the same food foraging techniques suggests research from th…

Hope for sufferers of rare childhood disease

Evoluted New Media | Added: 24 Jul 2014

Scientists as Newcastle University have taken the first step toward treating the rare childhood dis…

Svalbard reindeer numbers on the rise

Evoluted New Media | Added: 23 Jul 2014

In an unexpected twist, climate change is having a positive effect on the Norwegian reindeers of Sv…

Glacial microbes affect albedo

Evoluted New Media | Added: 21 Jul 2014

Microbes drastically reduce the surface reflectivity of glaciers and have a non-negligible impact o…

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…

DNA replication fork visualised

Evoluted New Media | Added: 18 Jul 2014

An American team have built the first model to decipher what goes on at the ‘replication fork’ duri…

New finding challenges belief birds evolved from dinosaurs

Evoluted New Media | Added: 17 Jul 2014

A sparrow-sized fossil from China challenges the commonly held belief that birds evolved from groun…

Protein pocket could lead to new treatment for Fragile X

Evoluted New Media | Added: 16 Jul 2014

A pocket found in the structure of a protein linked to genetic disorder Fragile X Syndrome could he…

Injected polio vaccine to boost immunity

Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Jul 2014

A type of polio vaccine that fell out of favour in the 1960s could hasten the eradication of the di…

The shrinking human genome

Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Jul 2014

Our understanding of the human genome has been reduced to 19,000 genes, almost all of which have an…

Fish-like animal emits bright and dim light

Evoluted New Media | Added: 9 Jul 2014

A fish-like animal found in coastal waters can emit both bright and dim versions of fluorescent lig…