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Herpes hitches a ride on cellular protein
Evoluted New Media | Added: 2 Feb 2011
The herpes virus protein piggybacks the human cellular machinery, hijacking human cells and spreadi…
Pfizer to close Sandwich plant
Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 Feb 2011
Pharmaceuticals company Pfizer are to close their research and development facility in Sandwich, Ke…
Charitable funding for cystinosis research
Evoluted New Media | Added: 31 Jan 2011
A chemically modified version of drug used to treat cystinosis could spell the end of its unpleasan…
One-stop-shop for cancer research
Evoluted New Media | Added: 28 Jan 2011
A one-stop-shop cancer drug discovery database has been launched by scientists who hope it will spe…
Keeping blood sugar under control
Evoluted New Media | Added: 26 Jan 2011
A new mechanism for controlling blood sugar levels following a meal has been discovered by scientis…
Couch potato sheds light on exercise and diabetes
Evoluted New Media | Added: 24 Jan 2011
Mice lacking in a protein coactivator maintain normal activity and body weight, but can’t seem to m…
Banded penguins suffer
Evoluted New Media | Added: 24 Jan 2011
Trying to tell one penguin apart from another can be quite difficult – the tuxedoed birds tend to l…
Fatal childhood disease treated with soya
Evoluted New Media | Added: 21 Jan 2011
Soya beans could hold the key to treating a fatal childhood disease say researchers in Manchester, …
Science talent worries over immigration cap
Evoluted New Media | Added: 19 Jan 2011
The Government is proposing to cap the number of non-EU economic migrants entering the UK at 21,700…
GM against bird flu
Evoluted New Media | Added: 19 Jan 2011
Genetically modified chickens with a decoy molecule could prevent the spread of avian flu to other …
Clever plastics indicate off food
Evoluted New Media | Added: 19 Jan 2011
Packaging that changes colour to alert consumers when food is starting to go off is being developed…
Resurrecting the mighty
Evoluted New Media | Added: 19 Jan 2011
In an attempt to figure out why the mammoth became extinct over 10,000 years ago, an international …
Buckyball leads to 3D breakthrough
Evoluted New Media | Added: 17 Jan 2011
A ‘guest’ molecule has led to a major breakthrough in nanotechnology by allowing scientists to buil…
Rhea’s Atmosphere holds surprise oxygen
Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Jan 2011
A fragile atmosphere of carbon dioxide and oxygen has been discovered around Rhea, Saturn’s second-…
Monopoles and magnetricity - the story of spin ice
Evoluted New Media | Added: 12 Jan 2011
A major breakthrough has been made in understanding magnetic monopoles and magnetricity as scientis…
Leaky blood vessel drug treats Alzheimer’s
Evoluted New Media | Added: 10 Jan 2011
Drugs currently used to treat leaky blood vessels could treat symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease say r…
Innocent bystander is not so innocent
Evoluted New Media | Added: 7 Jan 2011
The long-standing mystery of how HIV promotes the death of CD4 T cells and causes AIDS has been sol…
Sloppy maths surprisingly useful
Evoluted New Media | Added: 6 Jan 2011
If your head is still a little fuzzy after the New Year and you can’t keep up with the calculations…
Scientists honoured in New Year list
Evoluted New Media | Added: 6 Jan 2011
The New Year’s Honours Lists was announced at the end of 2010, and science featured prominently wit…
What’s yours?
Evoluted New Media | Added: 6 Jan 2011
It might be a New Year, but the resolutions are the same – and our brain hampers our efforts to sti…
