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Gravity affects sex in plants
Evoluted New Media | Added: 12 Apr 2013
Changes in gravity affect reproduction in plants, reveals a University of Montreal study. Their fin…

Turning a mobile into a low-cost microscope
Evoluted New Media | Added: 10 Apr 2013
A cheap glass lens, a strip of double sided sticky tape and a simple torch are all you need to turn…

Brain preservation technique could lead to unreliable autopsies
Evoluted New Media | Added: 10 Apr 2013
For the first time, scientists have conducted neutron scattering experiments on brain tissue. They…

Mummy study reveals ancient ancestors’ clogged arteries
Evoluted New Media | Added: 8 Apr 2013
Ancient hunter-gatherers suffered from clogged arteries too, reveals a study published in The Lance…

Modelling the hearts of the unborn
Evoluted New Media | Added: 5 Apr 2013
An ECG device used in a study aimed at developing the first comprehensive model of the functioning …

Hopping back to the gene pool
Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Apr 2013
Scientists have revitalised the genome of an extinct Australian frog using sophisticated cloning te…

Safer foot-and-mouth vaccine developed
Evoluted New Media | Added: 28 Mar 2013
Researchers from Diamond Light Source and The Pirbright Institute have developed a safer vaccine fo…

Sockeye salmon migrates magnetically
Evoluted New Media | Added: 18 Mar 2013
The sockeye salmon uses a magnetic map to return to its spawning ground after navigating across tho…

Alzheimer’s hope in form of wine and tea
Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Mar 2013
Substances found in green tea and red wine may disrupt a key step of the Alzheimer’s disease pathwa…

How a brain cell can change its mind
Evoluted New Media | Added: 13 Mar 2013
Harvard stem cell biologists have turned one type of already differentiated neurons into another wi…

Rats ‘touch’ infrared light
Evoluted New Media | Added: 8 Mar 2013
Neuroscience
Laboratory rats were given the ability to “touch” infrared light by Duke University res…

4D microscope captures motion in space and time
Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 Mar 2013
Scientists from the California Institute of Technology have developed techniques for visualising th…

Glacier melting accelerated by dark microbial life
Evoluted New Media | Added: 27 Feb 2013
Scientists previously viewed glaciers as “lifeless lumps of ice” but an Aberystwyth University-led …

Ovary development theory overturned
Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Feb 2013
The theory of ovary development has been overturned by new research from the University of Adelaide…

A gullet-scanner the size of a pill
Evoluted New Media | Added: 13 Feb 2013
Medical Imaging
Researchers have developed an imaging system enclosed in a capsule about the size of…

The surprising way a tadpole regrows its tail
Evoluted New Media | Added: 11 Feb 2013
Scientists at the University of Manchester have discovered, to their surprise, that a tadpole’s abi…

Light exposure vital for developing eye
Evoluted New Media | Added: 8 Feb 2013
Developmental Biology
Research published in Nature concludes that light exposure during pregnancy is…

Protein SP2 crucial to neuron creation
Evoluted New Media | Added: 17 Jan 2013
A cell cycle regulator protein called Sp2 may be the key to the proper creation of neurons from ste…

X-ray laser to slay sleeping sickness parasite
Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Jan 2013
The world’s most powerful X-ray laser has revealed the three-dimensional structure of an important …

Fossilised microbe discovered in 200 million year old leech cocoon
Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 Jan 2013
Palaeobiologists at the University of Kansas have discovered a ciliate fossil embedded in the wall …