All Biological Sciences


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…

Gut bacteria diversity linked to immunotherapy response in melanoma patients

Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Nov 2016

Patients with malignant melanoma have been found more likely to respond to immunotherapy treatment …

Genetic discovery offers potential autoimmune treatments

Evoluted New Media | Added: 9 Nov 2016

Researchers have raised the possibility of new autoimmune disease treatments with fewer side effect…

Culture clash

Evoluted New Media | Added: 9 Nov 2016

With estimates suggesting they can infect anything between 10-85% of cell lines in a microbiology l…

New treatment to combat antibiotic resistance

Evoluted New Media | Added: 8 Nov 2016

Researchers have discovered antimicrobial peptides that can kill bacteria resistant to existing ant…

Has Microsoft made an oncological smart bomb?

Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 Nov 2016

In September, AstraZeneca and Microsoft made headlines for their pioneering ‘drag and drop’ compute…

Epigenetics enabling fish survival

Evoluted New Media | Added: 31 Oct 2016

A number of fish species are adapting to survive warmer oceans without genetic changes, according t…