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Green tea may boost brain cell production

Evoluted New Media | Added: 12 Oct 2012

Green tea possesses chemical properties that increase the production of brain cells, providing bene…

Tough and stretchy gel created for cartilage replacements

Evoluted New Media | Added: 5 Oct 2012

Harvard material scientists and bioengineers have developed an extremely tough and stretchy biocomp…

New genetic variants linked to bipolar disorder

Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Oct 2012

Scientists have gained new understanding of the origin of bipolar disorder by identifying genetic v…

Stopping cancer in its tracks

Evoluted New Media | Added: 24 Sep 2012

Cancer can be stopped in its tracks by a mutant gene, without any outside help from toxic chemother…

Skin cancer found in fish

Evoluted New Media | Added: 21 Sep 2012

Skin cancer has been identified for the first time in wild coral trout populations in the Great Bar…

Relief for hay fever sufferers: pollen-free house plants developed

Evoluted New Media | Added: 19 Sep 2012

Pollen-free plants can be produced by targeting two bacterial genes into the houseplant Pelargonium…

Dedicated biomedical start-up office at LSP

Evoluted New Media | Added: 19 Sep 2012

SPARK Impact has teamed up with Liverpool Science Park (LSP) to launch an office dedicated to start…

Mathematicians solve biologists’ problem

Evoluted New Media | Added: 19 Sep 2012

Mathematicians may have solved a long-standing biological puzzle that had confounded molecular biol…

Packing a powerful punch

Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Sep 2012

Brain scans of karate experts have revealed distinctive features in the structure of white matter w…

Mini molecular targets for obesity

Evoluted New Media | Added: 13 Sep 2012

Researchers have discovered that  microRNAs affect how our cells burn fat and sugar – a finding tha…

From plane to patient

Evoluted New Media | Added: 12 Sep 2012

Technology pioneered in the aviation industry could be used to prevent complications after heart su…

Green Antarctica

Evoluted New Media | Added: 10 Sep 2012

Antarctica was once home to a warm rainforest dominated by palms and trees, and a mountain forest w…

Protecting the heart against CO poisoning

Evoluted New Media | Added: 7 Sep 2012

A common anti-angina drug could help protect the heart against the effects of carbon monoxide poiso…

Two diseases hiding under one umbrella

Evoluted New Media | Added: 5 Sep 2012

A rare but deadly disease of the circulatory system is not one but two diseases with different caus…

Shedding light on glowing butterfly wings

Evoluted New Media | Added: 30 Aug 2012

Some butterfly wings shimmer and shine, and an international team of researchers have discovered th…

New genes implicated in bone strength

Evoluted New Media | Added: 30 Aug 2012

Nine new genes determining bone strength have been discovered with a new and rapid functional scree…

Stroke treatment discovered

Evoluted New Media | Added: 23 Aug 2012

A 20-year investigation has uncovered a drug that can dramatically reduce the amount of brain damag…

Bloodstream scavenger stops deadly blood clots

Evoluted New Media | Added: 22 Aug 2012

A bloodstream scavenger which sweeps up the debris of damaged cells might stop the formation of dea…

APOE4 Alzheimer’s risk probed

Evoluted New Media | Added: 21 Aug 2012

People carrying the Alzheimer’s risk gene APOE4 are more likely to develop the neurological disease…

Target healthy tissue to treat cancer

Evoluted New Media | Added: 20 Aug 2012

Cancer treatments usually target the disease-causing tumour, but researchers in Belfast suggest tar…