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Six faces of Streptococcus

Evoluted New Media | Added: 10 Oct 2014

Like the faces of a die, Streptococcus pneumonia has six unique states it can switch to making it a…

BCRA2 involved in DNA repair

Evoluted New Media | Added: 9 Oct 2014

New images have revealed how BRCA2 works to repair damaged DNA.!--more-- The protein was known to …

Nobel round-up

Evoluted New Media | Added: 8 Oct 2014

In case you missed them, here is Laboratory News’ round-up of who won what in this year’s Nobel Pri…

Chemistry Prize for microscopy technique

Evoluted New Media | Added: 8 Oct 2014

After a short delay, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize in Chem…

GRAIL visualises man in the Moon

Evoluted New Media | Added: 8 Oct 2014

The Procellarum, a recess on the western edge of the moon, likely arose from a large plume of magma…

Blue LED wins Physics Nobel Prize

Evoluted New Media | Added: 7 Oct 2014

The invention of the blue light-emitting diodes has scooped this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics.!--m…

1851 Royal Commission Industrial Fellows announced

Evoluted New Media | Added: 7 Oct 2014

Nine young engineers developing world-changing technologies have been awarded Industrial Fellowship…

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…

IL-25 target for asthma attacks caused by colds

Evoluted New Media | Added: 6 Oct 2014

A small molecule called interleukin-25 might play a central role in asthma attacks brought on by th…

£125m to train next generation of bioscientists

Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Oct 2014

Funding of £125m over the next five years is being made available to support the training and devel…

Anthrax is new drug delivery vehicle

Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Oct 2014

Anthrax doesn’t seem like the go-to vehicle for delivering cancer drugs, but researchers from MIT h…

Star-shaped molecule created after 25 year effort

Evoluted New Media | Added: 2 Oct 2014

A complex star-shaped molecule of interlocking rings has been created at the University of Manchest…

Dry roasting a trigger for peanut allergy

Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 Oct 2014

There is a striking difference between the prevalence of peanut allergies in the Western world and …

Superheavy element pairing probes Einstein’s relativity

Evoluted New Media | Added: 30 Sep 2014

Chemists probing the predictive power of trends in the Periodic Table have successfully established…

Happy Birthday CERN!

Evoluted New Media | Added: 29 Sep 2014

Today marks 60 years since the 12 founding member states ratified the CERN convention and the Europ…

Jamming bacterial ‘shredder’ could fight infection

Evoluted New Media | Added: 29 Sep 2014

By jamming their ‘paper shredder’, scientists might be able to drown deadly bacteria in their own p…

Queen’s to head £6m cancer prevention initiative

Evoluted New Media | Added: 29 Sep 2014

Queen’s University in Belfast are to spearhead a £6 million initiative to find better ways to preve…

New microscopy technique images living single cells

Evoluted New Media | Added: 26 Sep 2014

A new microscopy technology has allowed scientists to paint a target in a living subject and watch …

Plumage no sacrifice for peacocks

Evoluted New Media | Added: 25 Sep 2014

Peacocks are known for their long iridescent feathers which they use to attract a mate, but their d…

Meteorite points to life on Mars

Evoluted New Media | Added: 24 Sep 2014

A tiny fragment of Martian meteorite has added to the growing body of evidence that the red plant m…