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Hope for combined muscle stimulator
Evoluted New Media | Added: 9 Dec 2010
A microchip that stimulates muscles and helps people with paraplegia exercise their leg muscles wil…
New bacteria eats away at Titanic
Evoluted New Media | Added: 9 Dec 2010
The hull of the famous RMS Titanic, which sunk in April 1912, is harbouring a lot more than the shi…
Sci-fi screwdriver being developed
Evoluted New Media | Added: 9 Dec 2010
Somewhere on children’s Christmas list this year there’s bound to be Doctor Who’s famous cure-all g…
Grey fabric could save the day
Evoluted New Media | Added: 8 Dec 2010
An ordinary-looking piece of grey fabric could be a life saver as it has been designed to filter ou…
Gene variation means ‘perfection’ impossible
Evoluted New Media | Added: 7 Dec 2010
No human carries a perfect genome with each person carrying between 250 and 300 genetic variations …
Obesity riddle sovled
Evoluted New Media | Added: 7 Dec 2010
The prevalence of overweight children spontaneously dropped if they followed a high-protein, low-GI…
Attention test suggests early start for Alzheimer’s
Evoluted New Media | Added: 6 Dec 2010
Alzheimer’s disease may begin as early as 40 say researchers who have developed simple attention te…
New forms of life on Earth
Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Dec 2010
It turns out phosphorus isn’t a necessary part of our DNA say American scientists who discovered a …
Pimping-up graphene
Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Dec 2010
By tinkering with graphene, one of this year’s Nobel Prize winners has developed a flat crystal ver…
Malaria breakthrough as team hone drug targets
Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Dec 2010
A major breakthrough has been made in the race to find new vaccines and treatments against malaria …
Divergence of the mosquitoes
Evoluted New Media | Added: 2 Dec 2010
Mosquitoes responsible for spreading malaria in sub-Saharan Africa are evolving into two separate s…
Rapid stem cell culture promises cartilage repair
Evoluted New Media | Added: 29 Nov 2010
Damaged and disease joints could be repaired with cells derived from embryonic stem cells after sci…
Funding secured for home blood clot test
Evoluted New Media | Added: 29 Nov 2010
Microvisk Technologies have raised over £2.5 million through a rights deal with existing investors …
Solar dip warms planet
Evoluted New Media | Added: 26 Nov 2010
A decrease in the Sun’s activity doesn’t always mean it gets cooler here on Earth; scientists belie…
Urine offers up climate change insight
Evoluted New Media | Added: 24 Nov 2010
Urine from the rock hyrax which has crystallised over thousands of years is providing a previously …
Blood vessel genotype switch causes cancer stir
Evoluted New Media | Added: 24 Nov 2010
An important breakthrough in the way anti-cancer drugs are tested has been made by scientists at th…
Your heart loves chocolate
Evoluted New Media | Added: 24 Nov 2010
With Christmas fast approaching, the Lab News team are looking forward to the mountain of chocolate…
Tracing selenium
Evoluted New Media | Added: 24 Nov 2010
The absence of selenium – a little known trace element – in the body may help scientists understand…
Super-twisted
Evoluted New Media | Added: 24 Nov 2010
Light that has been twisted like a corkscrew and then twisted even tighter has been used by Scottis…
Powered by poo
Evoluted New Media | Added: 22 Nov 2010
I’m all for recycling, but the news that residents in Didcot are using their own poo to heat their …
