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Global warming favours light-coloured insects

Evoluted New Media | Added: 7 Jul 2014

A warming European climate has led to lighter coloured butterflies and dragonflies out-competing th…

Brain activity during magic mushrooms trip mirrors dreaming

Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Jul 2014

The brain displays a similar pattern of activity during a mind-expanding drug trip as it does durin…

Bio-printing transplantable tissues a step closer

Evoluted New Media | Added: 2 Jul 2014

A bio-printed artificial vascular network capable of mimicking the body’s circulatory system could …

Diabetes medication ‘doing more harm than good’

Evoluted New Media | Added: 2 Jul 2014

Diabetes treatments could be doing more harm than good; particularly for the over 75s suggests new …

Fossil find could shed light on Neanderthal – human interbreeding

Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 Jul 2014

A collection of human fossils feared lost has been found and could shed light on whether Neandertha…

Antibiotic resistance chosen as greatest scientific problem

Evoluted New Media | Added: 30 Jun 2014

The British public have chosen antibiotic resistance as the most pressing scientific problem facing…

Bees under the spotlight

Evoluted New Media | Added: 30 Jun 2014

Recent research has uncovered a novel biopesticide which is safe for bees and doesn’t affect their …

Drug compound can reverse cardiomyopathy

Evoluted New Media | Added: 26 Jun 2014

A drug compound that could reverse hereditary disease arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy (ACM) has been …

Bones from beer residue

Evoluted New Media | Added: 25 Jun 2014

Waste from beer brewing could be recycled for use in an unexpected application – as a biomaterial f…

Onion-like vesicle for drug delivery

Evoluted New Media | Added: 24 Jun 2014

A drug delivery vesicle akin to an onion has been developed by researchers at the University of Pen…

Caging water to study spin

Evoluted New Media | Added: 23 Jun 2014

A pioneering method of caging and cooling water molecules to study its nuclear spin conversion coul…

Breakthrough against antibiotic resistance

Evoluted New Media | Added: 23 Jun 2014

A breakthrough in the race to solve antibiotic resistance has been made by a team from the Universi…

US researchers exposed to live anthrax

Evoluted New Media | Added: 20 Jun 2014

Failure to adhere to proper procedure means as many as 75 scientists in America may have been expos…

Four new genes confirmed to increase familial breast cancer risk

Evoluted New Media | Added: 20 Jun 2014

Four new genes have been added to those already known to increase the risk of familial breast cance…

Statins of questionable value

Evoluted New Media | Added: 19 Jun 2014

Drugs designed to lower the levels of “bad cholesterol” in the blood could condemn middle-aged adul…

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…

One-size-fits-all synthetic blood

Evoluted New Media | Added: 16 Jun 2014

Donated blood has a short shelf-life – only 35 days for red cells – but now researchers in Essex ho…

Proteome catalogue reveals 193 unknown proteins

Evoluted New Media | Added: 13 Jun 2014

A proteome catalogue has revealed 193 novel proteins in regions of the genome not predicted to code…

Molecular scaffold key to neurodegenerative disease

Evoluted New Media | Added: 13 Jun 2014

A molecular scaffold that allows key parts of the cell to communicate falls apart in dementia and m…

That ‘gut feeling’ explained

Evoluted New Media | Added: 11 Jun 2014

By severing the brain-gut communication channel, researchers have got to the bottom of the proverbi…