All Biological Sciences
Jumping spiders’ visual system revealed
Evoluted New Media | Added: 27 Oct 2014
Scientists have solved one of the toughest problems in spider biology – how the arachnids’ visual s…
Precursor to life created in virtual lab
Evoluted New Media | Added: 24 Oct 2014
A virtual molecular laboratory has created a possible precursor to life say Danish scientists, whic…
CD8 T cells in in for the long haul
Evoluted New Media | Added: 23 Oct 2014
Like soldiers trained for a specific mission, CD8 T cells become tuned to fighting an exact pathoge…
Liquid DNA behind virus attacks
Evoluted New Media | Added: 22 Oct 2014
New studies show viruses convert their DNA into liquid form to be injected into host cells, finding…
Floppy proteins linked to ALS
Evoluted New Media | Added: 21 Oct 2014
A loss of protein stability has been linked to muscle-destroying disease amyotrophic lateral sclero…
‘Breadcrumb trail’ helps melanoma spread
Evoluted New Media | Added: 20 Oct 2014
Just like Hansel and Gretel followed the trail of breadcrumbs to the witch’s house, melanoma cells …
Parkinson’s gut origin given boost
Evoluted New Media | Added: 17 Oct 2014
A disputed hypothesis which pinpoints the gut as the origin of Parkinson’s disease has gained suppo…
New type of stem cell discovered
Evoluted New Media | Added: 17 Oct 2014
The naïve-like stem cell – a type so elusive it was thought not to exist – has been found by scient…
Lipid membrane ink gives nanometre resolution
Evoluted New Media | Added: 16 Oct 2014
Lipid membranes have been used as a biological ‘ink’ to draw in the nanometre region in a new techn…
‘Perfect storm’ led to spread of HIV
Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Oct 2014
A ‘perfect storm’ led to the global spread of the HIV pandemic, which has its roots in Kinshasa, th…
Implants linked to new sub-type of lymphoma
Evoluted New Media | Added: 13 Oct 2014
Silicon-coated breast implants could be responsible for a new subtype of a rare but malignant lymph…
Six faces of Streptococcus
Evoluted New Media | Added: 10 Oct 2014
Like the faces of a die, Streptococcus pneumonia has six unique states it can switch to making it a…
BCRA2 involved in DNA repair
Evoluted New Media | Added: 9 Oct 2014
New images have revealed how BRCA2 works to repair damaged DNA.!--more-- The protein was known to …
Nobel round-up
Evoluted New Media | Added: 8 Oct 2014
In case you missed them, here is Laboratory News’ round-up of who won what in this year’s Nobel Pri…
Brain’s inner GPS wins Nobel Prize
Evoluted New Media | Added: 6 Oct 2014
The inner GPS of the brain, which makes it possible for us to orient ourselves in space has won Joh…
IL-25 target for asthma attacks caused by colds
Evoluted New Media | Added: 6 Oct 2014
A small molecule called interleukin-25 might play a central role in asthma attacks brought on by th…
£125m to train next generation of bioscientists
Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Oct 2014
Funding of £125m over the next five years is being made available to support the training and devel…
Anthrax is new drug delivery vehicle
Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Oct 2014
Anthrax doesn’t seem like the go-to vehicle for delivering cancer drugs, but researchers from MIT h…
Jamming bacterial ‘shredder’ could fight infection
Evoluted New Media | Added: 29 Sep 2014
By jamming their ‘paper shredder’, scientists might be able to drown deadly bacteria in their own p…
Queen’s to head £6m cancer prevention initiative
Evoluted New Media | Added: 29 Sep 2014
Queen’s University in Belfast are to spearhead a £6 million initiative to find better ways to preve…
