All Biological Sciences
Safer foot-and-mouth vaccine developed
Evoluted New Media | Added: 28 Mar 2013
Researchers from Diamond Light Source and The Pirbright Institute have developed a safer vaccine fo…
Sockeye salmon migrates magnetically
Evoluted New Media | Added: 18 Mar 2013
The sockeye salmon uses a magnetic map to return to its spawning ground after navigating across tho…
Alzheimer’s hope in form of wine and tea
Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Mar 2013
Substances found in green tea and red wine may disrupt a key step of the Alzheimer’s disease pathwa…
How a brain cell can change its mind
Evoluted New Media | Added: 13 Mar 2013
Harvard stem cell biologists have turned one type of already differentiated neurons into another wi…
Rats ‘touch’ infrared light
Evoluted New Media | Added: 8 Mar 2013
Neuroscience
Laboratory rats were given the ability to “touch” infrared light by Duke University res…
4D microscope captures motion in space and time
Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 Mar 2013
Scientists from the California Institute of Technology have developed techniques for visualising th…
Glacier melting accelerated by dark microbial life
Evoluted New Media | Added: 27 Feb 2013
Scientists previously viewed glaciers as “lifeless lumps of ice” but an Aberystwyth University-led …
Ovary development theory overturned
Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Feb 2013
The theory of ovary development has been overturned by new research from the University of Adelaide…
A gullet-scanner the size of a pill
Evoluted New Media | Added: 13 Feb 2013
Medical Imaging
Researchers have developed an imaging system enclosed in a capsule about the size of…
The surprising way a tadpole regrows its tail
Evoluted New Media | Added: 11 Feb 2013
Scientists at the University of Manchester have discovered, to their surprise, that a tadpole’s abi…
Light exposure vital for developing eye
Evoluted New Media | Added: 8 Feb 2013
Developmental Biology
Research published in Nature concludes that light exposure during pregnancy is…
Protein SP2 crucial to neuron creation
Evoluted New Media | Added: 17 Jan 2013
A cell cycle regulator protein called Sp2 may be the key to the proper creation of neurons from ste…
X-ray laser to slay sleeping sickness parasite
Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Jan 2013
The world’s most powerful X-ray laser has revealed the three-dimensional structure of an important …
Fossilised microbe discovered in 200 million year old leech cocoon
Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 Jan 2013
Palaeobiologists at the University of Kansas have discovered a ciliate fossil embedded in the wall …
Artificial brain mimics human abilities and flaws
Evoluted New Media | Added: 2 Jan 2013
Canadian scientists have created the world’s largest functioning brain model which produces complex…
Promising nanotechnology for nerve research
Evoluted New Media | Added: 26 Dec 2012
University of Michigan researchers report success in developing polymer nanofiber technologies for …
Chloroplasts could control crop ripening
Evoluted New Media | Added: 24 Dec 2012
Biologists at Leicester University have discovered that a plant cell regulation process also affect…
XMaS teeth studies establish our ancestors’ journeys
Evoluted New Media | Added: 21 Dec 2012
Scientists have teamed up with archaeologists to use X-rays to perform the world’s most detailed an…
Frankincense is not just for Christmas…
Evoluted New Media | Added: 21 Dec 2012
Frankincense, the undeniable fragrance of Christmas, is in high demand but this means that many Bos…
Why blind mole rats don’t get cancer
Evoluted New Media | Added: 19 Dec 2012
Biologists have determined why blind mole rats are immune to cancer. The mechanism differs from tha…
