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Antidepressants double suicide risk in children
Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 Feb 2016
Children and teenagers who take one of the five most commonly prescribed antidepressants have a dou…

Cholesterol reducing drug could positively affect Parkinson’s
Evoluted New Media | Added: 25 Jan 2016
A trial has begun in the UK to see the effects of cholesterol lowering drug, Simvastin, in those af…

Swimming out from an evolutionary shadow
Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Jan 2016
We hear how the humble turtle has been problematic to classify correctly in an evolutionary context…

Antibiotic resistance could hold key for treating amyloid diseases
Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Jan 2016
Researchers have discovered a method of using antibiotic resistance to find chemicals that stop amy…

Antidepressants show effect on lifespan
Evoluted New Media | Added: 6 Jan 2016
Scientists have begun to understand more about the effects of ageing through experiments on the lif…

Metformin affects diabetic trial studies
Evoluted New Media | Added: 30 Dec 2015
Metformin has been found to have a stronger effect on gut flora than diabetes Type 2, the condition…

Climbing to the cloud
Evoluted New Media | Added: 18 Dec 2015
Bioinformatics needs to change says Dr Thomas Connor and for that to happen we need to look to the …

A fascinating act of cellular cannibalism
Evoluted New Media | Added: 17 Dec 2015
After a century of observing strange acts of cellular cannibalism, Jo Durgan and Oliver Florey tell…

Protein found to affect HA efficacy
Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 Dec 2015
Hyaluronic acid (HA), used to treat osteoarthritis, could be modified to become even more useful fo…

It simply isn’t cricket
Evoluted New Media | Added: 17 Nov 2015
It is well-established that parasites can affect the behaviour of their hosts, but can a parasitica…

The quantum weirdness powering biology
Evoluted New Media | Added: 5 Nov 2015
It allows particles to be in two places at once, pass through impenetrable barriers or maintain spo…

Touching the sky
Evoluted New Media | Added: 27 Oct 2015
Bats are amongst the most agile of fliers – but can it really be their sense of touch which is key …

Reaching out for the origins of life
Evoluted New Media | Added: 22 Oct 2015
Evidence suggests meteorites could have been an important source of the prebiotic compounds require…

Characterising the future of medicine
Evoluted New Media | Added: 13 Oct 2015
Nanotechnology offers great promise for the improvement of the treatment of a number of diseases. H…

Novel therapies against parasitic diseases win Nobel Prize
Evoluted New Media | Added: 5 Oct 2015
A novel therapy against infections caused by roundworm parasites has won William Campbell and Satos…

Better science with improved efficiency
Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Sep 2015
Can laboratories really perform better science with improved efficiency and lower environmental imp…

MenB vaccination programme launched
Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 Sep 2015
A new vaccination programme has been launched today which offers children protection against mening…

Finding the personal touch
Evoluted New Media | Added: 18 Aug 2015
The drive for personalised medicine requires an increasingly intimate understanding of the human ge…

Chemical Probes Portal
Evoluted New Media | Added: 12 Aug 2015
New website – Chemical Probes Portal – has been launched to help researchers choose better quality …

Close to the madding crowd
Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 Aug 2015
To engage the public in your work, whilst also solving that all-important research funding problem?…