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Key fungus species help explain mysterious bat disease
Evoluted New Media | Added: 18 Sep 2013
Researchers have identified what might be the key to unravelling the mystery of White Nose Syndrome…
Norwegian bacteria make super sunscreen
Evoluted New Media | Added: 17 Sep 2013
Bacteria living in Trondheim Fjord can provide humans with better protection against skin cancer an…
Microbes can influence host evolution
Evoluted New Media | Added: 12 Sep 2013
Contrary to current understanding, a new study has provided direct evidence that an individual’s mi…
Neutron studies reveal HIV drug mechanism weaker than assumed
Evoluted New Media | Added: 11 Sep 2013
Neutron studies of an HIV enzyme and its inhibitor have revealed new areas for improvement in drug …
Bacteria-coated seeds enable crops to fix nitrogen
Evoluted New Media | Added: 10 Sep 2013
Technology developed at the University of Nottingham could enable all the world’s crops to take nit…
Seeing depth through a single lens
Evoluted New Media | Added: 9 Sep 2013
Microscopists may soon be able to create a 3D image through a single lens, without moving the camer…
Evolutionary grains of sand
Evoluted New Media | Added: 6 Sep 2013
Evolutionary ecologists are using “grains of sand” to understand more about evolutionary processes.…
Henrietta Lacks’ family win recognition for immortal cell line
Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 Sep 2013
The family of Henrietta Lacks, a woman whose tumour cells revolutionised modern medicine, have been…
Dengue disease findings could influence anti-viral drugs
Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Aug 2013
A new study into Dengue, an insect-borne tropical disease that infects up to 390 million worldwide …
Mouse heart beats again with human stem cells
Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Aug 2013
A decellularised mouse heart was able to contract and beat again when it was rebuilt with human ste…
Robotic frog improves boring mating call
Evoluted New Media | Added: 12 Aug 2013
A robotic frog has aided researchers to discover that manipulated mating calls can be very attracti…
Electrically charged insects perfect prey for spiders
Evoluted New Media | Added: 9 Aug 2013
Spider webs take advantage of an electrical charge built up by flying insects to snare their prey s…
Watering your crops by phone
Evoluted New Media | Added: 5 Aug 2013
A new app has been developed which means smart phones could soon monitor irrigation water use accor…
Unlocking the structure of elusive stress receptor
Evoluted New Media | Added: 18 Jul 2013
A spin-out pharmaceutical company has visualised for the first time a complicated protein receptor …
Eel fluorescent protein transforms clinical assay
Evoluted New Media | Added: 12 Jul 2013
A Japanese freshwater eel called unagi possesses a fluorescent protein that could revolutionise a k…
X-rays reveal ‘dinobird’ shook patterned tail feather
Evoluted New Media | Added: 10 Jul 2013
Using X-rays to complete the first chemical analysis of feathers from a fossil linking dinosaurs an…
UK leads the way in ‘legal high’ analysis
Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 Jul 2013
A team at the University of Lincoln, UK, is leading the way in new research aimed at detecting the …
Coral reef skeleton can survive even in acidic oceans
Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Jul 2013
For the first time, scientists have described the biological process of how corals create their ske…
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 …
New layer of human cornea discovered
Evoluted New Media | Added: 21 Jun 2013
Research at University of Nottingham has uncovered a previously undetected layer in the cornea, the…
