All Biological Sciences
Stopping cancer in its tracks
Evoluted New Media | Added: 24 Sep 2012
Cancer can be stopped in its tracks by a mutant gene, without any outside help from toxic chemother…
Skin cancer found in fish
Evoluted New Media | Added: 21 Sep 2012
Skin cancer has been identified for the first time in wild coral trout populations in the Great Bar…
Relief for hay fever sufferers: pollen-free house plants developed
Evoluted New Media | Added: 19 Sep 2012
Pollen-free plants can be produced by targeting two bacterial genes into the houseplant Pelargonium…
Dedicated biomedical start-up office at LSP
Evoluted New Media | Added: 19 Sep 2012
SPARK Impact has teamed up with Liverpool Science Park (LSP) to launch an office dedicated to start…
Mathematicians solve biologists’ problem
Evoluted New Media | Added: 19 Sep 2012
Mathematicians may have solved a long-standing biological puzzle that had confounded molecular biol…
Packing a powerful punch
Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Sep 2012
Brain scans of karate experts have revealed distinctive features in the structure of white matter w…
Mini molecular targets for obesity
Evoluted New Media | Added: 13 Sep 2012
Researchers have discovered that microRNAs affect how our cells burn fat and sugar – a finding tha…
From plane to patient
Evoluted New Media | Added: 12 Sep 2012
Technology pioneered in the aviation industry could be used to prevent complications after heart su…
Green Antarctica
Evoluted New Media | Added: 10 Sep 2012
Antarctica was once home to a warm rainforest dominated by palms and trees, and a mountain forest w…
Protecting the heart against CO poisoning
Evoluted New Media | Added: 7 Sep 2012
A common anti-angina drug could help protect the heart against the effects of carbon monoxide poiso…
Two diseases hiding under one umbrella
Evoluted New Media | Added: 5 Sep 2012
A rare but deadly disease of the circulatory system is not one but two diseases with different caus…
Shedding light on glowing butterfly wings
Evoluted New Media | Added: 30 Aug 2012
Some butterfly wings shimmer and shine, and an international team of researchers have discovered th…
New genes implicated in bone strength
Evoluted New Media | Added: 30 Aug 2012
Nine new genes determining bone strength have been discovered with a new and rapid functional scree…
Stroke treatment discovered
Evoluted New Media | Added: 23 Aug 2012
A 20-year investigation has uncovered a drug that can dramatically reduce the amount of brain damag…
Bloodstream scavenger stops deadly blood clots
Evoluted New Media | Added: 22 Aug 2012
A bloodstream scavenger which sweeps up the debris of damaged cells might stop the formation of dea…
APOE4 Alzheimer’s risk probed
Evoluted New Media | Added: 21 Aug 2012
People carrying the Alzheimer’s risk gene APOE4 are more likely to develop the neurological disease…
Target healthy tissue to treat cancer
Evoluted New Media | Added: 20 Aug 2012
Cancer treatments usually target the disease-causing tumour, but researchers in Belfast suggest tar…
Bacteriophage therapy to treat Iraqibacter
Evoluted New Media | Added: 6 Aug 2012
A technique to counter infections last used in the 1930s could be used to treat wounded soldiers at…
Mediterranean worm found on Irish farm
Evoluted New Media | Added: 2 Aug 2012
A Mediterranean earthworm species has been found thriving in an urban farm in Ireland.!--more--
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Neanderthal extinction not caused by climate
Evoluted New Media | Added: 2 Aug 2012
The demise of the Neanderthal cannot be blamed on climate change say researchers in London.!--more-…
