All Biological Sciences

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…

Call for epigenetic drug targets for respiratory ailments
Evoluted New Media | Added: 29 Jun 2016
An initiative has been launched to find new epigenetic drug targets for respiratory diseases.

Bubbly oxygen drink could aid cancer treatments
Evoluted New Media | Added: 27 Jun 2016
A drink containing oxygen microbubbles is being developed to make treatment of hard to reach tumour…

£2m grant for researchers to study dementia risks
Evoluted New Media | Added: 22 Jun 2016
A team of researchers from Cardiff, Bristol and Oxford University are set to begin investigating a …

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

New plant-based vaccine under investigation
Evoluted New Media | Added: 21 Jun 2016
A plant-based polio vaccine, the first of its kind, could be created by a team led by the Universit…

Longer living mice thanks to manipulated telomeres
Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Jun 2016
Scientists have created mice with longer telomeres than their counterparts, resulting in fewer sign…

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…

New frog species discovered
Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Apr 2016
A new species of narrow-mouthed frog has been discovered in India by scientists from the National U…

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 …

Evolutionary ancestral gene found
Evoluted New Media | Added: 22 Mar 2016
A common ancestral gene thought to have kick-started evolution has been identified by Canadian scie…

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…

Mosquitoes’ reproductive cycle potential drug target
Evoluted New Media | Added: 17 Mar 2016
US scientists are looking at ways to influence how mosquitoes mate to control the diseases they spr…