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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…