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How tarantulas hold on tight
Evoluted New Media | Added: 25 May 2011
Fluffy the tarantula has resolved the argument about how the arachnid stays secure on a vertical su…
CRB invest in peptide manufacturing
Evoluted New Media | Added: 23 May 2011
Cambridge Research Biochemicals – a research peptide and antibody manufacturer – is home to the fir…
Marine bugs give new antibiotic hope
Evoluted New Media | Added: 20 May 2011
Hybrid antibiotics may be key to wiping out drug-resistant strains of the MRSA superbug say researc…
Wound healing breakthrough
Evoluted New Media | Added: 18 May 2011
In a recent breakthrough, scientists in London and Japan have discovered not only how bone marrow c…
R&D becomes international as new scientific superpowers emerge
Evoluted New Media | Added: 13 May 2011
A new report from the Royal Society takes a look at the global scientific landscape, with some surp…
What can you do in 17 minutes?
Evoluted New Media | Added: 11 May 2011
It might not seem very long, but 17 minutes is a long time for researchers on the ALPHA project at …
Moving with the times
Evoluted New Media | Added: 11 May 2011
The dyes injected into the skin by tattoo artists when creating their artwork move with time – a re…
Parasitic fungus makes zombie ants
Evoluted New Media | Added: 11 May 2011
A parasitic fungus turns carpenter ants into walking zombies, altering their behaviour and forcing …
Systems biology models cells in vivo
Evoluted New Media | Added: 11 May 2011
Living systems are more complicated than cultured cells, and while computer modelling has been used…
Norovirus enzyme crystallised
Evoluted New Media | Added: 9 May 2011
The successful crystallisation of a key norovirus enzyme could enable scientists to develop effecti…
Mapping the brain - a new approach
Evoluted New Media | Added: 9 May 2011
The brain is a highly intricate network of neurons connected to thousands of other neurons and rese…
Tidying up after drugs
Evoluted New Media | Added: 6 May 2011
Drug molecules are directed around the body via the bloodstream, but it’s important they don’t stay…
SKA moves to Jodrell Bank
Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 May 2011
Jodrell Bank Observatory has fought off international competition to host the project office of the…
Pregnancy puzzle solved
Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 May 2011
Rather than rejecting the foetus and placenta because it contains paternal proteins, the maternal i…
Questioning the survival of the fittest
Evoluted New Media | Added: 2 May 2011
Darwin’s theory of evolution and the survival of the fittest may not be correct suggests a new stud…
Cancer drug trial begins in Oxford
Evoluted New Media | Added: 28 Apr 2011
An international trial of a novel drug to treat lung cancer patients who have stopped responding to…
Breast cancer tissue bank heads to Nottingham
Evoluted New Media | Added: 28 Apr 2011
A new tissue bank that will help fast-track research from bench to bedside is being launched at the…
Ageing – it’s down to steroids
Evoluted New Media | Added: 27 Apr 2011
Ageing is all down to the decrease in a steroid, and an international team of researchers have disc…
Brain mapping – an online resource
Evoluted New Media | Added: 27 Apr 2011
There is a 94% similarity between human brains, and at least 82% of all human genes are expressed i…
Very vanilla
Evoluted New Media | Added: 27 Apr 2011
Vanilla is the world’s second most popular flavour but the plant’s temperamental life cycle and pro…
