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Alderley Park to run Japanese AMR therapy

Added: 23 Jul 2019

Japanese pharmaceutical company Shionogi is out-licensing its anti-virulence therapy to the AMR Cen…

Gene therapy regenerates heart tissue

Evoluted New Media | Added: 9 May 2019

A coding gene has been shown to regenerate cells in pig hearts, which may help repair structural da…

First US based human trial of CRISPR

Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 May 2019

The University of Pennsylvania has announced it has started the first formal US human trial using t…

Porous material changes structure like a protein

Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Jan 2019

A newly developed synthesised material can change its structure to carry out specific chemical proc…

DeepMind AI predicts 3D protein shapes

Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Dec 2018

A British technology company has used AI to predict the 3D structure of a protein based on its gene…

Wellcome warning for CRISPR gene editing research

Evoluted New Media | Added: 11 Oct 2018

The first formal study involving the gene-editing technique CRISPR/Cas9 has been welcomed by more t…

Understanding the protein ‘interactome’

Evoluted New Media | Added: 20 Apr 2018

Researchers of the University of Helsinki, Finland, developed an improved method to give a detailed…

Study of ‘looping’ DNA reveals breast cancer link

Evoluted New Media | Added: 12 Apr 2018

Scientists have linked 110 genes to an increased risk of breast cancer in the most comprehensive st…

Watching DNA being read with cryo-EM

Evoluted New Media | Added: 7 Feb 2018

Scientists have unveiled images of the DNA code being read and interpreted – revealing new detail a…

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…

Antibiotic-resistant genes discovered

Evoluted New Media | Added: 30 Nov 2017

Researchers have discovered previously unknown genes that make bacteria resistant to last-resort an…

Nobel Prize Medicine winners announced

Evoluted New Media | Added: 2 Oct 2017

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to a trio of US scientists for their dis…

Genetic influence on cancer mapped

Evoluted New Media | Added: 20 Sep 2017

A new method to map cancer genes and improve personalised cancer treatment has been built by Swedis…

Histone's secrets unravelled

Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Sep 2017

Researchers in Spain have discovered why histone 1, a protein involved in gene expression, is a pro…

Pac-Man like CRISPR enzymes discovered

Evoluted New Media | Added: 9 May 2017

New CRISPR enzymes have been found that could be used as sensitive detectors for infectious viruses.

Leap forward made in synthetic biology

Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Apr 2017

An international team of more than 200 researchers have made significant progress in building an or…

First ‘off-switches’ discovered for CRISPR/Cas9 technique

Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Dec 2016

Researchers have discovered three naturally occurring proteins that can modulate the gene editing s…

Genetic discovery offers potential autoimmune treatments

Evoluted New Media | Added: 9 Nov 2016

Researchers have raised the possibility of new autoimmune disease treatments with fewer side effect…

Short telomere length in newborns linked to mother’s weight

Evoluted New Media | Added: 18 Oct 2016

Belgian researchers have found that a high BMI in mothers before pregnancy is associated with short…

Cloned sheep show no ill health as they age

Evoluted New Media | Added: 27 Jul 2016

New research has shown four clones derived from the cell line of Dolly the sheep have reached the a…