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Glowing nanotubes to aid therapeutics

Evoluted New Media | Added: 23 Apr 2012

Glowing carbon nanotubes could be the key to delivering drugs to cancer cells or modified DNA molec…

Click chemistry to aid biotechnology research

Evoluted New Media | Added: 20 Apr 2012

A new technique to click together DNA and RNA segments has won researchers from Southampton and Oxf…

Revealing how a soil bacterium carries out surprising chemistry

Evoluted New Media | Added: 18 Apr 2012

An international team of researchers have discovered how soil bacteria utilising surprising chemist…

Tweezers break up Parkinson’s aggregates

Evoluted New Media | Added: 16 Apr 2012

Molecular tweezers have been shown to block protein aggregation, prevent toxicity and reverse aggre…

Inbreeding didn't kill off Wrangel mammoths

Evoluted New Media | Added: 13 Apr 2012

Mammoths living on Wrangel Island didn’t go extinct due to inbreeding says new research.!--more--

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Fruit flies get kidney stones

Evoluted New Media | Added: 13 Apr 2012

When exposed to certain dietary foods, fruit flies rapidly and reliably get kidney stones.!--more--…

Earth's clock refined

Evoluted New Media | Added: 13 Apr 2012

Some events in Earth’s history may have happened more recently than previously thought suggests new…

Protecting cells from HIV

Evoluted New Media | Added: 12 Apr 2012

The protein SAMHD1 protects cells from infection by HIV, and researchers hope to harness its protec…

Ocean acidification speeds up

Evoluted New Media | Added: 11 Apr 2012

The oceans are acidifying faster today than at any other time in the past 300 million years say res…

Heart attack deaths halve in last decade

Evoluted New Media | Added: 10 Apr 2012

The number of deaths in England caused by heart attacks has halved in the last decade say researche…

Hep C vaccine breakthrough

Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 Apr 2012

A decade of research into hepatitis C may have yielded results as researchers in Canada have announ…

Time for something a little different...

Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 Apr 2012

Slug-like aliens on a Segway and the Diamond Light Source in Oxfordshire – not necessarily two thin…

A prehistoric revolution (with video)

Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Apr 2012

Dinosaurs just don’t work – they’re too large to have carried their colossal weight on four limbs w…

Manipulating antimatter with microwaves

Evoluted New Media | Added: 2 Apr 2012

By manipulating antihydrogen atoms with microwaves, scientists have provided the first glimpse of a…

UK Biobank opens

Evoluted New Media | Added: 30 Mar 2012

UK Biobank – a key resource for health research – opens today with more than 1,000 separate pieces …

Two legs better than four

Evoluted New Media | Added: 29 Mar 2012

Early ancestors began to walk on two instead of four limbs in order to carry as much food as possib…

Popcorn is healthy

Evoluted New Media | Added: 29 Mar 2012

Popcorn might be a popular cinema treat, but popped corn can actually provide more antioxidants tha…

Gravity measured by globe-trotting gnome

Evoluted New Media | Added: 29 Mar 2012

Kern the globe-trotting gnome heads to the South Pole on his latest leg of his round the world trip…

Nanoslinky created

Evoluted New Media | Added: 27 Mar 2012

American researchers have created the nanoslinky, a novel microfluidic technology for DNA manipulat…

Unravelling the genetic code of cancer

Evoluted New Media | Added: 26 Mar 2012

Sequencing of two hereditary breast cancers caused by a faulty BRCA1 gene have revealed surprising …