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Henrietta Lacks’ family win recognition for immortal cell line

Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 Sep 2013

The family of Henrietta Lacks, a woman whose tumour cells revolutionised modern medicine, have been…

Assistant Director Vacancy at CaSE

Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Aug 2013

The Campaign for Science and Engineering (CaSE) are seeking an Assistant Director to join the team.…

Dengue disease findings could influence anti-viral drugs

Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Aug 2013

A new study into Dengue, an insect-borne tropical disease that infects up to 390 million worldwide …

Mouse heart beats again with human stem cells

Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Aug 2013

A decellularised mouse heart was able to contract and beat again when it was rebuilt with human ste…

Robotic frog improves boring mating call

Evoluted New Media | Added: 12 Aug 2013

A robotic frog has aided researchers to discover that manipulated mating calls can be very attracti…

Electrically charged insects perfect prey for spiders

Evoluted New Media | Added: 9 Aug 2013

Spider webs take advantage of an electrical charge built up by flying insects to snare their prey s…

Sea-level rise predictions could be flawed

Evoluted New Media | Added: 7 Aug 2013

Bristol researchers say the satellite record for the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets needs to im…

Watering your crops by phone

Evoluted New Media | Added: 5 Aug 2013

A new app has been developed which means smart phones could soon monitor irrigation water use accor…

Solar tsunami used to measure Sun’s magnetic field

Evoluted New Media | Added: 2 Aug 2013

A solar tsunami has been used to provide the first accurate estimates of the Sun’s magnetic field.!…

Hear a heartbeat in space

Evoluted New Media | Added: 27 Jul 2013

A new electronic stethoscope designed for NASA could deliver accurate heart and body sounds to doct…

Unlocking the structure of elusive stress receptor

Evoluted New Media | Added: 18 Jul 2013

A spin-out pharmaceutical company has visualised for the first time a complicated protein receptor …

Cellectricon launches grant to fund electroporation-based projects

Evoluted New Media | Added: 18 Jul 2013

Cellectricon is inviting researchers to apply for the recently launched Cellaxess Project Grant. !-…

Maths model explains why our Universe is a hologram

Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Jul 2013

Researchers have taken a significant step to understanding the physics behind the structure of the …

Eel fluorescent protein transforms clinical assay

Evoluted New Media | Added: 12 Jul 2013

A Japanese freshwater eel called unagi possesses a fluorescent protein that could revolutionise a k…

X-rays reveal ‘dinobird’ shook patterned tail feather

Evoluted New Media | Added: 10 Jul 2013

Using X-rays to complete the first chemical analysis of feathers from a fossil linking dinosaurs an…

Doughnut-shaped electromagnetic fields demystify dark matter

Evoluted New Media | Added: 5 Jul 2013

A pair of physicists say their simple theory may explain dark matter – the mysterious, invisible fo…

Mars – warm, wet and rusty long before Earth

Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 Jul 2013

New evidence from the NASA Mars rover suggests that the red planet was wet, warm and had oxygen bil…

UK leads the way in ‘legal high’ analysis

Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 Jul 2013

A team at the University of Lincoln, UK, is leading the way in new research aimed at detecting the …

Putting the physics into spin

Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 Jul 2013

As the Ashes series gets underway next week, physicists from Australia have been exploring the phys…

Coral reef skeleton can survive even in acidic oceans

Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Jul 2013

For the first time, scientists have described the biological process of how corals create their ske…