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Tidying up after drugs
Evoluted New Media | Added: 6 May 2011
Drug molecules are directed around the body via the bloodstream, but it’s important they don’t stay…
SKA moves to Jodrell Bank
Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 May 2011
Jodrell Bank Observatory has fought off international competition to host the project office of the…
Pregnancy puzzle solved
Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 May 2011
Rather than rejecting the foetus and placenta because it contains paternal proteins, the maternal i…
Questioning the survival of the fittest
Evoluted New Media | Added: 2 May 2011
Darwin’s theory of evolution and the survival of the fittest may not be correct suggests a new stud…
Cancer drug trial begins in Oxford
Evoluted New Media | Added: 28 Apr 2011
An international trial of a novel drug to treat lung cancer patients who have stopped responding to…
Breast cancer tissue bank heads to Nottingham
Evoluted New Media | Added: 28 Apr 2011
A new tissue bank that will help fast-track research from bench to bedside is being launched at the…
Ageing – it’s down to steroids
Evoluted New Media | Added: 27 Apr 2011
Ageing is all down to the decrease in a steroid, and an international team of researchers have disc…
Brain mapping – an online resource
Evoluted New Media | Added: 27 Apr 2011
There is a 94% similarity between human brains, and at least 82% of all human genes are expressed i…
Very vanilla
Evoluted New Media | Added: 27 Apr 2011
Vanilla is the world’s second most popular flavour but the plant’s temperamental life cycle and pro…
The puzzle of excess calcium
Evoluted New Media | Added: 26 Apr 2011
Too much calcium in the heart can cause sudden cardiac arrest in heart failure patients but scienti…
New company seeks collaboration
Evoluted New Media | Added: 26 Apr 2011
Molecular diagnostic company, Abcodia, has been granted rights to commercialise intellectual proper…
Good versus bad and how the brain remembers
Evoluted New Media | Added: 24 Apr 2011
The brain’s reward centre is also geared towards bad behaviour, evoking production of neurotransmit…
Orchid aids pollination with roadkill
Evoluted New Media | Added: 21 Apr 2011
Roadkill or orchid – they both smell the same to flesh flies and a South African orchid which mimic…
Nano-vaccines for HIV and malaria
Evoluted New Media | Added: 20 Apr 2011
Researchers at MIT have discovered packing vaccines into concentric fatty spheres could be key to d…
Mutated microRNA causes deafness
Evoluted New Media | Added: 18 Apr 2011
A mutated form of microRNA is responsible for deafness in mice because it prevents the development …
Allergen-cat
Evoluted New Media | Added: 17 Apr 2011
Runny nose, itchy eyes, sneezing and wheezing – researchers in Nottingham have uncovered a cell com…
GSK flash the cash and go hunting for graduates
Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Apr 2011
As Pfizer and AstraZenica prepare to close their research and development sites and universities de…
What’s wassonite?
Evoluted New Media | Added: 13 Apr 2011
A new mineral consisting of sulphur and titanium has been found in a meteorite recovered from Antar…
Retinal regeneration a step closer
Evoluted New Media | Added: 13 Apr 2011
Mouse stem cells can spontaneously form into the optic cup – the precursor of eyes – without any ex…
Mouldable metals
Evoluted New Media | Added: 13 Apr 2011
Stronger than steel but as versatile as plastic – scientists have developed a substance that can be…
