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How to be adaptable

Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Aug 2014

Adrian Gainer explains what it takes to build the perfect adaptable laboratory!--more-- Adaptabili…

Right/wrong: The blurred lines of ethical publishing

Evoluted New Media | Added: 12 Aug 2014

The pressure to publish and the power struggle of paper authorships are very real factors in modern…

Curbing our animal instinct: How 3R technology is aiming at superiority

Evoluted New Media | Added: 7 Aug 2014

From stem cells to human-on-a-chip devices, opportunities for applying the 3Rs are intimately relat…

The challenges of going remote

Evoluted New Media | Added: 5 Aug 2014

In recent years, advances in technology have radically improved the quality and reliability of remo…

Uncovering the truth of fibrosis

Evoluted New Media | Added: 29 Jul 2014

Despite its essential role in the normal wound healing process, fibrosis in humans is most often di…

Stopping the air from turning blue

Evoluted New Media | Added: 24 Jul 2014

Concerns are being raised that some biofuel crops may increase the production of a climate changing…

Data management – the key to safe fracking?

Evoluted New Media | Added: 22 Jul 2014

Over the last few years, rapid technology developments related to fracking have spawned significant…

A taste for flavour characterisation

Evoluted New Media | Added: 18 Jul 2014

Flavour and aroma analysis is important to many industries, from the obvious – such as the food, dr…

A standard solution for atmospheric science

Evoluted New Media | Added: 17 Jul 2014

Scientists at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) have produced the world’s first synthetic air …

A gap in the clouds

Evoluted New Media | Added: 16 Jul 2014

While much of our climate is well characterised and modelled, there is something of a gaping hole i…

Fit for purpose?

Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Jul 2014

Almost every laboratory experiment and diagnostic assay relies on using pure water to generate resu…

Biological production by human design

Evoluted New Media | Added: 10 Jul 2014

Paul Gemmill discusses why synthetic biology has become such a growth area and what the research co…

Biological production by human design

Evoluted New Media | Added: 8 Jul 2014

Rapid advances in synthetic biology have made it possible to convert biomass to chemicals, fuels an…

The starkest of contrasts

Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Jul 2014

In mid-April, the latest volume from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was publi…

Widening the wheat gene pool

Evoluted New Media | Added: 24 Jun 2014

Our most dominant crop has a worrying lack genetic diversity. Here, we learn about a UK programme a…

Liver cells…in 3D

Evoluted New Media | Added: 17 Jun 2014

With a breakthrough that led to the first ever in-vitro expansion of liver stem cells, researchers …

The ‘middle men’ of knowledge

Evoluted New Media | Added: 12 Jun 2014

Researchers developing lighter materials and new catalysts are collaborating with UK companies to r…

Unleashing the hidden efficiency of your lab

Evoluted New Media | Added: 10 Jun 2014

Money for science is in short supply. Yet an untapped resource exists. These are the performance an…

Scotland builds a biotech future

Evoluted New Media | Added: 5 Jun 2014

It’s no secret, globally our environment is changing. We’re seeing a rise in population, a rapid de…

Putting it all on the table

Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Jun 2014

The competition to synthesise heavy elements is well underway, but are we creating them just becaus…