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Robotic exoskeleton training expands options for stroke rehabilitation

Added: 2 Feb 2021

It must be hard enough to recover from an acute stroke, but many find the physical taxation of reha…

Laser-triggered chemical adhesion for tissue engineering of replacement organs

Added: 19 Jan 2021

Laser-triggered chemical adhesion used to build proteins onto biological polymer scaffolding to bri…

Megalodon babies were born larger than a man

Added: 18 Jan 2021

While 'The Meg' exaggerated its movie magic megalodon, researchers have shown  a baby megatooth sha…

Predicting trends in clinical motion tracking technologies

Added: 18 Nov 2020

Read an expert vision of the future where clinicians have been wooed by motion tracking wearables t…

Biomimicry informs better sensors: just add noise

Added: 4 Sep 2020

Adding noise to enhance a weak signal is a sensing phenomenon common in the animal world but unusua…

New Leicestershire-based COVID-19 testing ‘Lighthouse Lab’

Added: 4 Sep 2020

A new ‘Lighthouse Lab’ facility will be established in Leicestershire to increase the UK’s COVID-19…

Computational model could help translate drugs from animal studies to human

Added: 5 Aug 2020

About 50% of people who take the drug infliximab for inflammatory bowel diseases, such as Crohn's d…

Human rights in biomedicine: action plan 2020-2025

Added: 25 Jun 2020

On 24 June 2020, in Strasbourg, the Bioethics Committee launched its new action plan on human right…

Eye-controlled contact lenses

Added: 29 Jul 2019

Biomechanical engineers have created a robotic lens that allows the wearer to focus on an image thr…

Gut microbiome plays role in evolution

Evoluted New Media | Added: 22 Oct 2018

By using a novel system of taxonomy a team has made a key advance toward understanding which of the…

Gene signatures help kidney transplant success

Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Sep 2018

Scientists have discovered a molecular signature for the allostatic load ­– or ‘wear and tear’ – of…

Magnetic sense could lead to molecular manipulation

Evoluted New Media | Added: 13 Apr 2018

By understanding Magnetoreception - the ability of some animals to sense Earth’s magnetic field – a…

The bare-bones of hypergravity

Evoluted New Media | Added: 9 Apr 2018

A team of student biologists have been selected to take part to study the effect of hypergravity on…

Molecular printing tech recreates complex biology

Evoluted New Media | Added: 19 Jan 2018

A new fabrication technology which could allow researchers to recreate complex biological environme…

Tissue regeneration method created

Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Dec 2017

Researchers from the University of Birmingham have found a way to successfully mimic the body’s nat…

Promising gene therapy treatment for blindness

Evoluted New Media | Added: 7 Dec 2017

University of Oxford scientists have shown how gene therapy could reverse blindness. !--more-- Mo…

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…

Just what colour is time?

Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 May 2015

New research suggests colour is a reliable sensory mechanism for telling the time of day. !--more--…

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…

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…