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New Leicestershire-based COVID-19 testing ‘Lighthouse Lab’
Added: 4 Sep 2020
A new ‘Lighthouse Lab’ facility will be established in Leicestershire to increase the UK’s COVID-19…

Computational model could help translate drugs from animal studies to human
Added: 5 Aug 2020
About 50% of people who take the drug infliximab for inflammatory bowel diseases, such as Crohn's d…

Human rights in biomedicine: action plan 2020-2025
Added: 25 Jun 2020
On 24 June 2020, in Strasbourg, the Bioethics Committee launched its new action plan on human right…

Eye-controlled contact lenses
Added: 29 Jul 2019
Biomechanical engineers have created a robotic lens that allows the wearer to focus on an image thr…

Gut microbiome plays role in evolution
Evoluted New Media | Added: 22 Oct 2018
By using a novel system of taxonomy a team has made a key advance toward understanding which of the…

Gene signatures help kidney transplant success
Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Sep 2018
Scientists have discovered a molecular signature for the allostatic load – or ‘wear and tear’ – of…

Magnetic sense could lead to molecular manipulation
Evoluted New Media | Added: 13 Apr 2018
By understanding Magnetoreception - the ability of some animals to sense Earth’s magnetic field – a…

The bare-bones of hypergravity
Evoluted New Media | Added: 9 Apr 2018
A team of student biologists have been selected to take part to study the effect of hypergravity on…

Molecular printing tech recreates complex biology
Evoluted New Media | Added: 19 Jan 2018
A new fabrication technology which could allow researchers to recreate complex biological environme…

Tissue regeneration method created
Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Dec 2017
Researchers from the University of Birmingham have found a way to successfully mimic the body’s nat…

Promising gene therapy treatment for blindness
Evoluted New Media | Added: 7 Dec 2017
University of Oxford scientists have shown how gene therapy could reverse blindness. !--more-- Mo…

Protein found to affect HA efficacy
Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 Dec 2015
Hyaluronic acid (HA), used to treat osteoarthritis, could be modified to become even more useful fo…

Just what colour is time?
Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 May 2015
New research suggests colour is a reliable sensory mechanism for telling the time of day. !--more--…

Implants linked to new sub-type of lymphoma
Evoluted New Media | Added: 13 Oct 2014
Silicon-coated breast implants could be responsible for a new subtype of a rare but malignant lymph…

Brain’s inner GPS wins Nobel Prize
Evoluted New Media | Added: 6 Oct 2014
The inner GPS of the brain, which makes it possible for us to orient ourselves in space has won Joh…

Cell division ‘master key’ protein structure revealed
Evoluted New Media | Added: 31 Jul 2014
One of the most important proteins found in nature has been mapped by scientists from the Institute…

Breakthrough in nanowires
Evoluted New Media | Added: 23 Jan 2014
In a series of papers, researchers have documented a breakthrough in laser action in semiconductor …

Science Nobels awarded
Evoluted New Media | Added: 6 Nov 2013
This year’s sciences Nobel Prizes were shared between eight scientists with discoveries ranging fro…

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…