All Biological Sciences

Short telomere length in newborns linked to mother’s weight
Evoluted New Media | Added: 18 Oct 2016
Belgian researchers have found that a high BMI in mothers before pregnancy is associated with short…

It’s biology Jim, but not as we know it...
Evoluted New Media | Added: 13 Oct 2016
After his appearance at Lab Innovations – we hear from physicist and all-round science hero Profess…

2017 Eppendorf Awards open
Evoluted New Media | Added: 6 Oct 2016
Entries are being welcomed for the 2017 Eppendorf Award for Young European Investigators.

Industrial Fellowships for promising researchers
Evoluted New Media | Added: 5 Oct 2016
The Royal Commission of the Exhibition of 1851 has awarded 10 early-career engineers and scientists…

Cell digestion research wins 2016 Nobel Prize
Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Oct 2016
Professor Yoshinori Ohsumi has been awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize for medicine or physiology for his…

Habitat preservation crucial for turtle and tortoise survival
Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Oct 2016
The survival of turtles and tortoises is more dependent on habitat degradation than rising global t…

New sensor technology accelerates blood analysis
Evoluted New Media | Added: 27 Sep 2016
Scientists in York have developed a sensor capable of detecting multiple proteins and enzymes in sm…

New map, new thinking
Evoluted New Media | Added: 22 Sep 2016
Dr Emma Robinson tells us how comparing brain function not cortical folding patterns led to a revol…

New species of trapdoor spider discovered
Evoluted New Media | Added: 20 Sep 2016
A PhD student from Griffith University has discovered a large number of new trapdoor spider species…

Patent pending?
Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Sep 2016
When is a health treatment really new? When is a medical treatment really an invention? Patent atto…

Coming together for microbiology
Evoluted New Media | Added: 13 Sep 2016
From forensic post-mortems to veterinary pathogen drug resistance – two burgeoning microbiological …

Catch them if you can
Evoluted New Media | Added: 12 Sep 2016
When it comes to the performance of your fluorescence microscopy system, every photon is sacred – b…

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…

Antibody validation guidelines released
Evoluted New Media | Added: 5 Sep 2016
An international working group have published the first proposals for validating antibody specifici…

Astronaut successfully sequences DNA in space
Evoluted New Media | Added: 31 Aug 2016
DNA has been sequenced in space for the first time ever.

Fungi extracts precious elements from batteries
Evoluted New Media | Added: 30 Aug 2016
Researchers in the US have used fungi to extract metals from rechargeable batteries.

Stem cell switch unearthed in flatworms
Evoluted New Media | Added: 25 Aug 2016
Researchers studying flatworms have discovered a ‘ying and yang’ switch that allows for the creatio…

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 …

Gene therapy offers different approach to treating depression
Evoluted New Media | Added: 27 Jul 2016
Scientists have shown how manipulating a new target in the brain through gene therapy can lead to n…