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Earthquake whispers reveal Earth’s secrets
Evoluted New Media | Added: 7 Jun 2010
By listening to earthquake ‘whispers’ scientists at the University of Calgary believe they have gai…
SAD genes identified
Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 Jun 2010
New treatments for SAD –seasonal affective disorder – may be on the cards thanks to research from M…
Resisting cisplatin
Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 Jun 2010
Cancerous tumours treated with cisplatin quickly become resistant to the drug, and researchers from…
The mighty resurrection
Evoluted New Media | Added: 2 Jun 2010
In research that has more than a wiff of Jurassic Park about it, palaeobiologists use genomics to g…
Cheese to improve immune system
Evoluted New Media | Added: 26 May 2010
Cheese can help preserve and enhance the immune system of elderly people by acting as a carrier of …
Thinking outside the box
Evoluted New Media | Added: 26 May 2010
Highly creative people have a similar dopamine system to people with schizophrenia according to new…
Track, predict and spit
Evoluted New Media | Added: 26 May 2010
By tracking the movements of their prey and predicting where they will be 200ms later, snakes are a…
Divide and divide
Evoluted New Media | Added: 19 May 2010
Almost 600 genes play a part in mitosis according to the results of a study into the most common fo…
Five new genetic variants that could cause cancer
Evoluted New Media | Added: 19 May 2010
More than 45,500 new cases of breast cancer are diagnosed each year, and scientists have now discov…
From laboratory to art gallery
Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 May 2010
An artist has swapped the laboratory for an art gallery window and used microtitre plates in his la…
Strike averted at NPL
Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 May 2010
A last minute resolution has been offered to Prospect members at the National Physical Laboratory (…
Running a marathon can halt cell death
Evoluted New Media | Added: 13 May 2010
It may hurt at the time but strenuous activity could halt programmed cell death.
Spin out success
Evoluted New Media | Added: 13 May 2010
Spin out company MGB BioPharma has been created by the University of Strathclyde to commercialise a…
Zero gravity for Newton’s tree
Evoluted New Media | Added: 12 May 2010
A piece of Newton’s apple tree – the tree which inspired the scientist to formulate his theory of g…
Listening to Mozart doesn’t make you smart
Evoluted New Media | Added: 12 May 2010
The ‘Mozart effect’ has gained widespread recognition since its publication in 1993, but a new stud…
Venus erupting
Evoluted New Media | Added: 10 May 2010
Venus is still geologically active, its surface being wiped clean by a gradual sequence of volcanic…
New techniques for gene sequencing
Evoluted New Media | Added: 7 May 2010
Next generation techniques have decoded the genome of the fungus Sordaria macrospora with some surp…
Proteins in urine indicate kidney cancer
Evoluted New Media | Added: 5 May 2010
The presence of a pair of proteins in urine could lead to an earlier and more accurate diagnosis of…
Deep volcanic vents discovered
Evoluted New Media | Added: 5 May 2010
A British scientific expedition has discovered the world’s deepest undersea volcanic vents in the C…
Tomato therapy
Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 May 2010
Tomato plants could be used in cancer treatment after a study revealed that a tomato gene can cause…
