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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…
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…
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…
3D printed shapes mimic living tissue
Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 May 2013
A custom-built programmable 3D printer that can print materials with the properties of living tissu…
Mathematicians solve a foamy problem
Evoluted New Media | Added: 5 May 2013
Two researchers from University of California Berkeley have now described mathematically the succes…
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…
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…
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 …
Chloroplasts could control crop ripening
Evoluted New Media | Added: 24 Dec 2012
Biologists at Leicester University have discovered that a plant cell regulation process also affect…
Stem cells, quantum physics and fight or flight: The Nobel winners 2012
Evoluted New Media | Added: 20 Oct 2012
The most prestigious and publicised awards in the science world were announced last month. Stem cel…
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…
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…
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…
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…
