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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…
Stealth cover for drug delivery vehicles
Evoluted New Media | Added: 13 Apr 2011
Drug delivery vehicles have been given nanoparticle armour to help it evade the body’s immune syste…
Alcohol consumption - could it be in the genes?
Evoluted New Media | Added: 13 Apr 2011
Genes often get blamed for excessive behaviour – we drink too much or eat too much because our gene…
Optical fibres advance
Evoluted New Media | Added: 11 Apr 2011
The first optical fibre made with a core of zinc selenide promises to open the door to more versati…
Beating heart cells created in 11 days
Evoluted New Media | Added: 8 Apr 2011
Adult skin cells have been converted directly into beating heart cells in just 11 days in a new tec…
UK Young Scientist scooped by a woman
Evoluted New Media | Added: 8 Apr 2011
For the first time, a young woman has been named UK Young Scientist of the Year in the National Sci…
Reversing migratory cancer cells
Evoluted New Media | Added: 6 Apr 2011
Ovarian cancer isn’t typically discovered until it’s already spread to other organs, by which time …
Survival of the copycats
Evoluted New Media | Added: 6 Apr 2011
Sea turtles return to the same beach they were born on to lay their eggs – even though swim past pe…
Nano-Velcro for CTCs
Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 Apr 2011
A Velcro-like nanoscale device capable of capturing marauding tumour cells from metastatic cancers …
Nature’s nanospring
Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 Apr 2011
International researchers have unravelled elastin – a protein which allows our lungs to expand and …
Remedies from spacebound bacteria
Evoluted New Media | Added: 30 Mar 2011
Bacteria shot into space in 2006 might provide inspiration for novel remedies on Earth say NASA sci…
Multiple myeloma genome visualised
Evoluted New Media | Added: 30 Mar 2011
The genetic blueprint of multiple myeloma has yielded new and unexpected insights into how this for…
Beating the blood-brain barrier
Evoluted New Media | Added: 30 Mar 2011
The impermeable blood-brain barrier makes it impossible to deliver drugs to fight neurodegenerative…
Giant rabbit lost its hop
Evoluted New Media | Added: 29 Mar 2011
A giant rabbit that lost its ability to hop lived on the island of Minorca millions of years ago sa…
From sea squirt to human tissue
Evoluted New Media | Added: 28 Mar 2011
Once again, Nature has proved a great source of inspiration – this time it’s the sea squirt, whose …
Oxfordshire company scoops two Rushlight Awards
Evoluted New Media | Added: 25 Mar 2011
An Oxfordshire company scooped two awards and was highly commended at the annual Rushlight award ce…
Forecasting the Sun’s future
Evoluted New Media | Added: 24 Mar 2011
Astronomers sifting through data from the Kepler telescope have discovered waves inside a star so d…
Decline of the physicists
Evoluted New Media | Added: 23 Mar 2011
Nearly 500 schools and colleges in England failed to enter a single candidate in A-level physics ac…
Silent witness reveals clues to crime
Evoluted New Media | Added: 21 Mar 2011
Did they jump or were they pushed? Questions like this can be difficult for the police to answer, b…
