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Copper-rich glass for bone repair

Evoluted New Media | Added: 7 Feb 2019

A new treatment for osteomyelitis makes use of a copper-rich glass implant to accelerate bone repai…

New AMR strategy revamps drug payment model

Evoluted New Media | Added: 24 Jan 2019

The UK government has revealed its new action plan for controlling antimicrobial resistance.!--more…

Wasp venom repurposed as antibiotic drug

Evoluted New Media | Added: 20 Dec 2018

Variants of a peptide normally found in wasp venom could have applications as an antibiotic drug fo…

Electronic pill connects to external device

Evoluted New Media | Added: 18 Dec 2018

An ingestible sensor is able to release drugs and relay diagnostic information wirelessly to an ext…

DNA binding factor gives clues to the causes of MS

Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Jun 2018

Researchers have identified a DNA-binding factor that might play a role in triggering multiple scle…

UK aims high for organ on a chip technology

Evoluted New Media | Added: 11 Jun 2018

Several academic, industrial and regulatory biomedical research centres came together last month to…

Iran joins the International Agency for Research on Cancer

Evoluted New Media | Added: 7 Jun 2018

The International Agency for Research on Cancer has welcomed the Islamic Republic of Iran as a new …

Spin-out gurus move to new digs

Evoluted New Media | Added: 11 May 2018

Oxford Sciences Innovation, which commercialises the science and technology from the University of …

Ribosome distribution key to programming cells

Evoluted New Media | Added: 5 Apr 2018

By controlling the distribution of bacterial ribosomes, synthetic biologists say they can program c…

Organ-on-chip tech offers Hep B hope

Evoluted New Media | Added: 16 Mar 2018

Scientists at Imperial College London have become the first in the world to test how pathogens inte…

Heroin vaccine close to human trials

Evoluted New Media | Added: 9 Mar 2018

Scientists from the US say they have achieved a major milestone toward designing a safe vaccine to …

Report reveals ‘urgent need’ for improved drug discovery productivity

Evoluted New Media | Added: 6 Feb 2018

A new report by two UK bioscience organisations suggests that despite great strengths, the UK drug …

Venture capital vital to future of biotech

Evoluted New Media | Added: 23 Jan 2018

The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry has released a report suggesting that pharma…

Old dog, new tricks for TB antibiotic

Evoluted New Media | Added: 17 Jan 2018

Tuberculosis could be fought more effectively with future drugs – thanks to new research into an ol…

Physiological role found for Alzheimers protein

Evoluted New Media | Added: 10 Jan 2018

A team working on neurodevelopment of axon growth have uncovered a role for TAU, a protein linked t…

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…

Speedy antibiotic resistance test developed

Evoluted New Media | Added: 12 Oct 2017

Researchers in California have significantly improved the speed of an antibiotic-resistant bacteria…

Novel screening method gives pharma shot in the arm

Evoluted New Media | Added: 24 Aug 2017

Scientists at the Francis Crick Institute have created a new, more responsive method to screen pote…

Transatlantic drive to tackle antimicrobial resistance

Evoluted New Media | Added: 18 Jul 2017

A collaboration to identify antimicrobial drug targets in a novel way has been announced by researc…