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The chemistry of conservation
Evoluted New Media | Added: 19 Aug 2014
We find out why chemistry is vital in preserving whale skeletons at the Oxford University Museum of…

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…