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Prestigious award for cancer researchers
Evoluted New Media | Added: 18 May 2012
A multidisciplinary team of researchers which discovered 16 preclinical drug candidates in six year…
Nanopore readers for DNA sequencing
Evoluted New Media | Added: 17 May 2012
A nanoscale sensor able to electronically read the sequence of a single DNA molecule could lead to …
Secrets of rare stamps revealed
Evoluted New Media | Added: 16 May 2012
Philatelists have turned to science after the authenticity of three rare Penny Red stamps was calle…
Boost for high performance computing
Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 May 2012
High performance computing has received a £3.7m boost from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Re…
High heels and ostrich legs
Evoluted New Media | Added: 11 May 2012
Women walking in extremely high heels exert the same force on the ground as a strutting ostrich and…
Ancient viruses hide in genetic 'dark matter'
Evoluted New Media | Added: 11 May 2012
Scientists have uncovered important information about the ‘dark matter’ of our genomes, revealing c…
Willingness to work down to dopamine
Evoluted New Media | Added: 11 May 2012
Slacker or go-getter – how hard you’re willing to work is strongly influenced by the chemistry in t…
Plants can combat rising CO2
Evoluted New Media | Added: 9 May 2012
Terrestrial ecosystems may be able to absorb more anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions than previ…
CTCs could predict chance of survival
Evoluted New Media | Added: 7 May 2012
Circulating tumour cells (CTCs) in the blood of women with early breast cancer could provide import…
An embarrasment of riches for relativity
Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 May 2012
Einstein’s view of the Universe has gained yet more evidence as cosmologists better understand the …
Revealing volcanic plumbing
Evoluted New Media | Added: 2 May 2012
Understanding the plumbing systems that lie under volcanoes could help scientists predict large sca…
Hookworms to treat MS
Evoluted New Media | Added: 30 Apr 2012
Parasitic worms could offer a new treatment for people with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) say researchers…
Dione has oxygen exosphere
Evoluted New Media | Added: 27 Apr 2012
Saturn’s moon Dione has a weak exosphere which includes molecules of oxygen suggests new findings f…
Glowing fish offer clues to pollution damage
Evoluted New Media | Added: 27 Apr 2012
Green-glowing zebrafish could offer new clues to the health impacts of pollution on both wildlife a…
Brain freeze offers new insight into headache
Evoluted New Media | Added: 27 Apr 2012
The phenomenon of brain freeze – associated with eating ice-cream and cold drinks – has been used a…
New clues to cancer communication
Evoluted New Media | Added: 27 Apr 2012
There is growing interest in the idea that the body’s immune system might be trained to fight cance…
Sanofi to close R&D and drug manufacturing site
Evoluted New Media | Added: 25 Apr 2012
Sanofi are to close their drug manufacturing site in Newcastle, and the Genzyme R&D site in Cambrid…
Observing embryonic development
Evoluted New Media | Added: 25 Apr 2012
Embryonic development that was previously unobservable has now become observable thanks to Cambridg…
Advances in blood clot switch understanding
Evoluted New Media | Added: 25 Apr 2012
Scientists have made a leap forward in understanding how a biochemical switch linked to blood-clott…
Marine worm with a toxic diet
Evoluted New Media | Added: 23 Apr 2012
Faced with a scarce food supply in the sandy sediments in which it lives, a small marine worm survi…
