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Spin-out restores antibiotic action

Evoluted New Media | Added: 21 Jul 2008

A spin-out company from the John Innes plant and microbial science centre in Norwich has won fundin…

Prosthetics company reaches for success

Evoluted New Media | Added: 18 Jul 2008

A company spawned from university research to create one of the world’s most advanced artificial li…

Lab rats dive straight in to race

Evoluted New Media | Added: 16 Jul 2008

Microbiology lab staff from across Scotland have proved that their talents extend beyond assays and…

Super computer proves to be a real chatter box

Evoluted New Media | Added: 16 Jul 2008

Scientists are to use a powerful super computer to mimic the part of the brain that controls speech…

Anatomists face the facts

Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Jul 2008

Laugh and the world laughs with you, but express extreme fear and you could be on your own.

Elements are music to chemist's ears

Evoluted New Media | Added: 11 Jul 2008

Here at Lab News we like to think we are pretty up on current scientific debate, and if there was e…

Exploding star ends decade long search

Evoluted New Media | Added: 9 Jul 2008

Scientists have, for the first time, observed a flash of ultraviolet light from within a dying star…

Is allergy a cruel evolutionary throwback?

Evoluted New Media | Added: 7 Jul 2008

Just as hay fever season kicks off in earnest scientists have discovered how evolution may have lum…

Can Science Feed Africa?

Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 Jul 2008

A new £2.8 million study will bring together researchers from medicine, plant science, ecology, soc…

Stem cell breakthrough closes gap between mouse and human studies

Evoluted New Media | Added: 2 Jul 2008

Scientists have shown for the first time that embryonic stem cells are able to self-renew without t…

Science gets in the festival spirit

Evoluted New Media | Added: 2 Jul 2008

For all those that didn’t make this years Cheltenham Science Festival, our girl on the ground Leila…

Dissolving glass stimulates bone growth

Evoluted New Media | Added: 27 Jun 2008

Scientists from Imperial College London are developing a new form of glass, which can dissolve insi…

Space penetrator a smashing success

Evoluted New Media | Added: 27 Jun 2008

Scientists have been smashing their instruments into the Welsh countryside in preparation for futur…

New skills plan for UK biosciences

Evoluted New Media | Added: 27 Jun 2008

The UK’s first skills plan for bioscience has been launched mapping out exactly what skills bioscie…

Men and chocolate - both have a grey old time

Evoluted New Media | Added: 27 Jun 2008

Greying with age isn’t always a bad thing – both men and chocolate may lose their looks over a numb…

Collaboration extends cancer research tools

Evoluted New Media | Added: 25 Jun 2008

Cambridge Enterprise portfolio company Horizon Discovery is to link custom cell biology assays from…

Sticky patents licenced from MOD

Evoluted New Media | Added: 23 Jun 2008

Archimedes Development has licensed a portfolio of patents from Ploughshare Innovations - the techn…

Protein interaction explains life's complexity

Evoluted New Media | Added: 20 Jun 2008

The complexity of an organism lies in the number of protein interactions in its body rather than th…

Laser fusion a step closer

Evoluted New Media | Added: 18 Jun 2008

Scientists are one step closer to fusion power thanks to work at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory…

Diamond shines in first real test

Evoluted New Media | Added: 17 Jun 2008

Researchers from Royal Holloway, University of London have been the first to use the Diamond Light …