All Biological Sciences


A right royal success

Evoluted New Media | Added: 6 Mar 2017

Following a fellowship award from the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851, Alice Hagan set …

The eyes have it for deep sea squid’s survival

Evoluted New Media | Added: 23 Feb 2017

The first behavioural evidence for why a deep sea squid has developed an ocular oddity has been col…

Less is more for the gatekeeper of oncology

Evoluted New Media | Added: 21 Feb 2017

Late last year Dr Tony Ocasio discovered a first generation cancer inhibitor. Here he talks about t…

How’s your game?

Evoluted New Media | Added: 21 Feb 2017

Reliable, precise and trusted – however, a pipette performs only as well as the operator’s techniqu…

Ruling in CRISPR patent battle

Evoluted New Media | Added: 20 Feb 2017

As a key verdict in the legal battle over exploitation of the CRISPR-Cas9 technology is handed down…

An instrument-free future?

Evoluted New Media | Added: 16 Feb 2017

Molecular diagnostics requires dedicated equipment and electricity – this can present a barrier to…

Optogenetics breakthrough achieved in Japan

Evoluted New Media | Added: 9 Feb 2017

Light has been successfully used by a Japanese researcher to manipulate gene expression to produce …

The prognosis of UK pathology services

Evoluted New Media | Added: 7 Feb 2017

NHS pathology laboratories are under immense pressure to do more with less or face closure. Yet it …

Tissue reuse scheme expanding its reach

Evoluted New Media | Added: 2 Feb 2017

The University of Leeds is leading a scheme to reduce the number of animals needed for biomedical r…

Let’s get real

Evoluted New Media | Added: 24 Jan 2017

The humble petri dish has been a stalwart of the lab for as long as cells have been cultured – but …

Not just another brick in the wall

Evoluted New Media | Added: 12 Jan 2017

Far from being an inert capsule, chemical profiling screenings have revealed that the bacterial cel…

Novel climate predictions aim to help save coral reefs worldwide

Evoluted New Media | Added: 11 Jan 2017

A set of new climate model projections will enable conservationists to understand which coral reefs…

Immunity’s genetic link discovered

Evoluted New Media | Added: 10 Jan 2017

Almost 75% of immune traits are influenced by genes, according to researchers at King’s College Lon…

A complex problem...

Evoluted New Media | Added: 9 Jan 2017

It has long puzzled scientists why, after 3 billion years of nothing more complex than algae, anima…

The Three Musketeers

Evoluted New Media | Added: 5 Jan 2017

PARP inhibitors are increasingly becoming seen as a vital tool for use alongside conventional cance…

New dinosaur tribes named

Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 Jan 2017

Scientists have named two new clades, or tribes, of horned dinosaurs based on fossils collected in …

New DNA analysis method reveals plant immunity

Evoluted New Media | Added: 22 Dec 2016

A new, improved method to capture longer fragments of DNA will allow researchers to understand more…

Understanding Nature’s scalpel

Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Dec 2016

The CRISPR-Cas system is already one of our most important genetic techniques – and it is one honed…

Antibody crisis: Order from chaos

Evoluted New Media | Added: 23 Nov 2016

As we slowly come to terms with the damage caused by the antibody validation crisis – there is hope…

Feel the heat of antimicrobial resistance

Evoluted New Media | Added: 23 Nov 2016

Used by Antoine Lavoisier in the 18th Century, calorimetry is one of the oldest methods of chemical…