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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…
Genetic differences in microbes and wine variation linked
Evoluted New Media | Added: 25 Nov 2015
The distinctive variations in taste and odour between wines from different regions are linked to ti…
The mysteries of DNA origami unfolded
Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Oct 2015
Scientists have found that the assembly of DNA into nanostructures follows distinct pathways rather…
One night of sleep loss alters clock gene expression
Evoluted New Media | Added: 21 Aug 2015
Gene expression that control biological clocks in cells throughout the body is altered after losing…
Training the next generation of archaeogeneticists
Evoluted New Media | Added: 9 Apr 2015
A new research centre will be used to train the next generation of specialists in the field of arch…
Separating the plant genome
Evoluted New Media | Added: 12 Nov 2014
A new approach to separating plant nuclear DNA from organellar DNA could speed up DNA sequencing an…
Single mutation disrupts morphology of sexual organs
Evoluted New Media | Added: 11 Nov 2014
A single mutation in a gene coding for a protein deeply involved in developmental and homeostatic p…
Genetic mutation prevents weight gain on high-sugar diet
Evoluted New Media | Added: 28 Oct 2014
A team of researchers from the University of Southern California have found a way to suppress the o…
Floppy proteins linked to ALS
Evoluted New Media | Added: 21 Oct 2014
A loss of protein stability has been linked to muscle-destroying disease amyotrophic lateral sclero…
Six faces of Streptococcus
Evoluted New Media | Added: 10 Oct 2014
Like the faces of a die, Streptococcus pneumonia has six unique states it can switch to making it a…
Epigenetic changes play role in Alzheimer’s
Evoluted New Media | Added: 28 Aug 2014
Researchers say they have amassed some of the strongest evidence yet to show that epigenetic change…
Speedier diagnosis using new genomic mapping technique
Evoluted New Media | Added: 8 Aug 2014
Canadian researchers have developed a technique for massive parallel genomic analysis of long DNA m…
New non-coding RNA discovered
Evoluted New Media | Added: 6 Aug 2014
A new species of non-coding RNA has been discovered by researchers in Germany, who believe these se…
Control protein switch found
Evoluted New Media | Added: 28 Jul 2014
Research from Dundee has revealed how a complex protein pivotal in the development of cancer, autoi…
The shrinking human genome
Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Jul 2014
Our understanding of the human genome has been reduced to 19,000 genes, almost all of which have an…
Four new genes confirmed to increase familial breast cancer risk
Evoluted New Media | Added: 20 Jun 2014
Four new genes have been added to those already known to increase the risk of familial breast cance…
Proteome catalogue reveals 193 unknown proteins
Evoluted New Media | Added: 13 Jun 2014
A proteome catalogue has revealed 193 novel proteins in regions of the genome not predicted to code…
Leap in modelling cardiovascular disease
Evoluted New Media | Added: 30 May 2014
American scientists have made a huge leap forward in genetic modelling after growing functioning hu…
New gene linked to oesophageal cancer treatment
Evoluted New Media | Added: 23 May 2014
A newly discovered gene linked to oesophageal cancer could hold the key to treatments for the hard-…
Gene variant linked to longevity
Evoluted New Media | Added: 20 May 2014
Spanish and Japanese centenarians have revealed of the genetic keys to longevity – a variant on a c…
