All Biology

Ethics of genetics: More than just designer babies
Evoluted New Media | Added: 6 Sep 2016
Work around the human genome and advances in the accessibility and analysis of data, creates huge o…

The super-organism behind Nature’s skyscraper
Evoluted New Media | Added: 11 Aug 2016
Notions of the ‘super-organism’ need to be invoked to truly understand the intelligence behind Natu…

X-ray vision
Evoluted New Media | Added: 9 Aug 2016
Bees navigate by sensing the polarisation of light. We now know that some rainforest-dwelling bees …

Transforming cells to transform lives
Evoluted New Media | Added: 19 Jul 2016
A company in Scotland has devised a novel way to treat type 1 diabetes – producing lab grown islets…

Who’s your daddy?
Evoluted New Media | Added: 8 Jul 2016
AlphaBioLabs provide DNA paternity, drug and alcohol testing services and are the only lab used by …

The beauty of the beast
Evoluted New Media | Added: 5 Jul 2016
The enigmatic Tully Monster has become something of a palaeontological icon, yet there is much to l…

Old dog, new tricks
Evoluted New Media | Added: 21 Jun 2016
Have we overlooked some incredible pharmacological properties of aspirin? Martyna Petrulyte takes a…

From the front line
Evoluted New Media | Added: 19 May 2016
We hear from Professor Daouda Ndiaye – a Senegalese researcher taking on malaria – about a new test…

Did the dinosaurs suffer with malaria?
Evoluted New Media | Added: 16 May 2016
A new analysis of the prehistoric origin of malaria suggests that it evolved in insects at least 10…

Come on feel the noise
Evoluted New Media | Added: 18 Apr 2016
Dr Adele Murrell fills us in on a new approach to making sense of "junk" DNA and RNA "noise" to fig…

The pace and pattern of being
Evoluted New Media | Added: 8 Apr 2016
Maturation in mammals varies widely, but the exact reasons why are still unclear. A new method of m…

What to do with a problem like Zika?
Evoluted New Media | Added: 6 Apr 2016
The current Zika outbreak first began in Brazil in April 2015. It has been strongly linked to newbo…

A personal interpretation
Evoluted New Media | Added: 25 Mar 2016
There is a clear move away from a ‘one size fits all’ approach to medicine and instead a new person…

Data takes on the dopers
Evoluted New Media | Added: 23 Mar 2016
New studies looking at the subtle changes that can occur when human blood is stored could help put …

Symptom or cause? Autism and immune dysfunction
Evoluted New Media | Added: 18 Mar 2016
There are tantalising clues that anomalies in immune function may be related to autism spectrum dis…

A map is worth a thousand words
Evoluted New Media | Added: 26 Feb 2016
Vibrational spectroscopy expert Dr Elizabeth Carter tells us how Raman mapping can help examine the…

When does ageing become disease?
Evoluted New Media | Added: 8 Feb 2016
Our understanding of the molecular process of ageing is growing, as such our understanding of risk …

What's really going on with the Zika virus?
Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 Feb 2016
The Zika virus and its possible health risks to pregnant women are very much in the public eye at t…

Microscopic subway passengers with a ticket to ride
Evoluted New Media | Added: 22 Jan 2016
A complete map of the microbiome of the New York City subway system? It’s possible – and all it tak…

Swimming out from an evolutionary shadow
Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Jan 2016
We hear how the humble turtle has been problematic to classify correctly in an evolutionary context…