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Fire at UEA chemistry lab

Evoluted New Media | Added: 21 Oct 2014

A fire has broken out in a third floor chemistry laboratory at the University of East Anglia.!--mor…

Floppy proteins linked to ALS

Evoluted New Media | Added: 21 Oct 2014

A loss of protein stability has been linked to muscle-destroying disease amyotrophic lateral sclero…

‘Breadcrumb trail’ helps melanoma spread

Evoluted New Media | Added: 20 Oct 2014

Just like Hansel and Gretel followed the trail of breadcrumbs to the witch’s house, melanoma cells …

Parkinson’s gut origin given boost

Evoluted New Media | Added: 17 Oct 2014

A disputed hypothesis which pinpoints the gut as the origin of Parkinson’s disease has gained suppo…

New type of stem cell discovered

Evoluted New Media | Added: 17 Oct 2014

The naïve-like stem cell – a type so elusive it was thought not to exist – has been found by scient…

Lipid membrane ink gives nanometre resolution

Evoluted New Media | Added: 16 Oct 2014

Lipid membranes have been used as a biological ‘ink’ to draw in the nanometre region in a new techn…

Half as much dark matter as astronomers thought

Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Oct 2014

The Milky Way contains half as much dark matter than previously thought according to new research w…

‘Perfect storm’ led to spread of HIV

Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Oct 2014

A ‘perfect storm’ led to the global spread of the HIV pandemic, which has its roots in Kinshasa, th…

Implants linked to new sub-type of lymphoma

Evoluted New Media | Added: 13 Oct 2014

Silicon-coated breast implants could be responsible for a new subtype of a rare but malignant lymph…

Six faces of Streptococcus

Evoluted New Media | Added: 10 Oct 2014

Like the faces of a die, Streptococcus pneumonia has six unique states it can switch to making it a…

BCRA2 involved in DNA repair

Evoluted New Media | Added: 9 Oct 2014

New images have revealed how BRCA2 works to repair damaged DNA.!--more-- The protein was known to …

Nobel round-up

Evoluted New Media | Added: 8 Oct 2014

In case you missed them, here is Laboratory News’ round-up of who won what in this year’s Nobel Pri…

Chemistry Prize for microscopy technique

Evoluted New Media | Added: 8 Oct 2014

After a short delay, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize in Chem…

GRAIL visualises man in the Moon

Evoluted New Media | Added: 8 Oct 2014

The Procellarum, a recess on the western edge of the moon, likely arose from a large plume of magma…

Blue LED wins Physics Nobel Prize

Evoluted New Media | Added: 7 Oct 2014

The invention of the blue light-emitting diodes has scooped this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics.!--m…

1851 Royal Commission Industrial Fellows announced

Evoluted New Media | Added: 7 Oct 2014

Nine young engineers developing world-changing technologies have been awarded Industrial Fellowship…

Brain’s inner GPS wins Nobel Prize

Evoluted New Media | Added: 6 Oct 2014

The inner GPS of the brain, which makes it possible for us to orient ourselves in space has won Joh…

IL-25 target for asthma attacks caused by colds

Evoluted New Media | Added: 6 Oct 2014

A small molecule called interleukin-25 might play a central role in asthma attacks brought on by th…

£125m to train next generation of bioscientists

Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Oct 2014

Funding of £125m over the next five years is being made available to support the training and devel…

Anthrax is new drug delivery vehicle

Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Oct 2014

Anthrax doesn’t seem like the go-to vehicle for delivering cancer drugs, but researchers from MIT h…