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Uncovering the root (veg) of good health

Evoluted New Media | Added: 27 Jun 2014

Food scientists, chemists and clinicians will joins forces to investigate the effects of eating car…

Drug compound can reverse cardiomyopathy

Evoluted New Media | Added: 26 Jun 2014

A drug compound that could reverse hereditary disease arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy (ACM) has been …

Versarien acquire 85% of graphene start-up

Evoluted New Media | Added: 26 Jun 2014

Versatile materials company Versarien has acquired 85% of the shares in the University of Mancheste…

Bones from beer residue

Evoluted New Media | Added: 25 Jun 2014

Waste from beer brewing could be recycled for use in an unexpected application – as a biomaterial f…

Onion-like vesicle for drug delivery

Evoluted New Media | Added: 24 Jun 2014

A drug delivery vesicle akin to an onion has been developed by researchers at the University of Pen…

Caging water to study spin

Evoluted New Media | Added: 23 Jun 2014

A pioneering method of caging and cooling water molecules to study its nuclear spin conversion coul…

Breakthrough against antibiotic resistance

Evoluted New Media | Added: 23 Jun 2014

A breakthrough in the race to solve antibiotic resistance has been made by a team from the Universi…

US researchers exposed to live anthrax

Evoluted New Media | Added: 20 Jun 2014

Failure to adhere to proper procedure means as many as 75 scientists in America may have been expos…

Research Councils adopt new reporting platform

Evoluted New Media | Added: 20 Jun 2014

The seven UK Research Councils have announced they are to begin using a uniform digital platform fo…

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…

Statins of questionable value

Evoluted New Media | Added: 19 Jun 2014

Drugs designed to lower the levels of “bad cholesterol” in the blood could condemn middle-aged adul…

Chemical sensor on a chip

Evoluted New Media | Added: 19 Jun 2014

Infrared laser beams are ideal for analysing liquids and gases, and scientists in Vienna have minia…

Liquid biopsy to track lung cancer

Evoluted New Media | Added: 18 Jun 2014

A liquid biopsy using a patient’s blood sample could offer a new way to track lung cancer say resea…

Origami on the microscopic

Evoluted New Media | Added: 18 Jun 2014

Dutch researchers have taken the ancient art of origami down to the microscopic level, folding flat…

Travel Fellowships for science communicators

Evoluted New Media | Added: 17 Jun 2014

To mark its 50th anniversary in 2015, the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust is to invest £1.2m in Br…

One-size-fits-all synthetic blood

Evoluted New Media | Added: 16 Jun 2014

Donated blood has a short shelf-life – only 35 days for red cells – but now researchers in Essex ho…

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…

Molecular scaffold key to neurodegenerative disease

Evoluted New Media | Added: 13 Jun 2014

A molecular scaffold that allows key parts of the cell to communicate falls apart in dementia and m…

Supernova explosions recreated in the lab

Evoluted New Media | Added: 12 Jun 2014

A scaled supernova explosion has been recreated in the laboratory using lasers 60,000 billion times…

That ‘gut feeling’ explained

Evoluted New Media | Added: 11 Jun 2014

By severing the brain-gut communication channel, researchers have got to the bottom of the proverbi…