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Wellcome warning for CRISPR gene editing research
Evoluted New Media | Added: 11 Oct 2018
The first formal study involving the gene-editing technique CRISPR/Cas9 has been welcomed by more t…
Understanding the protein ‘interactome’
Evoluted New Media | Added: 20 Apr 2018
Researchers of the University of Helsinki, Finland, developed an improved method to give a detailed…
Study of ‘looping’ DNA reveals breast cancer link
Evoluted New Media | Added: 12 Apr 2018
Scientists have linked 110 genes to an increased risk of breast cancer in the most comprehensive st…
Watching DNA being read with cryo-EM
Evoluted New Media | Added: 7 Feb 2018
Scientists have unveiled images of the DNA code being read and interpreted – revealing new detail a…
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…
Antibiotic-resistant genes discovered
Evoluted New Media | Added: 30 Nov 2017
Researchers have discovered previously unknown genes that make bacteria resistant to last-resort an…
Nobel Prize Medicine winners announced
Evoluted New Media | Added: 2 Oct 2017
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to a trio of US scientists for their dis…
Genetic influence on cancer mapped
Evoluted New Media | Added: 20 Sep 2017
A new method to map cancer genes and improve personalised cancer treatment has been built by Swedis…
Histone's secrets unravelled
Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Sep 2017
Researchers in Spain have discovered why histone 1, a protein involved in gene expression, is a pro…
Pac-Man like CRISPR enzymes discovered
Evoluted New Media | Added: 9 May 2017
New CRISPR enzymes have been found that could be used as sensitive detectors for infectious viruses.
Leap forward made in synthetic biology
Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Apr 2017
An international team of more than 200 researchers have made significant progress in building an or…
First ‘off-switches’ discovered for CRISPR/Cas9 technique
Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Dec 2016
Researchers have discovered three naturally occurring proteins that can modulate the gene editing s…
Genetic discovery offers potential autoimmune treatments
Evoluted New Media | Added: 9 Nov 2016
Researchers have raised the possibility of new autoimmune disease treatments with fewer side effect…
Short telomere length in newborns linked to mother’s weight
Evoluted New Media | Added: 18 Oct 2016
Belgian researchers have found that a high BMI in mothers before pregnancy is associated with short…
Cloned sheep show no ill health as they age
Evoluted New Media | Added: 27 Jul 2016
New research has shown four clones derived from the cell line of Dolly the sheep have reached the a…
Call for epigenetic drug targets for respiratory ailments
Evoluted New Media | Added: 29 Jun 2016
An initiative has been launched to find new epigenetic drug targets for respiratory diseases.
Longer living mice thanks to manipulated telomeres
Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Jun 2016
Scientists have created mice with longer telomeres than their counterparts, resulting in fewer sign…
Unexpected side effects of deadly gene
Evoluted New Media | Added: 24 Mar 2016
Gene carriers of a rare respiratory disease were found to have increased lung function, by scientis…
Evolutionary ancestral gene found
Evoluted New Media | Added: 22 Mar 2016
A common ancestral gene thought to have kick-started evolution has been identified by Canadian scie…
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…
