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Underinvestment in antibacterial research
Evoluted New Media | Added: 5 Aug 2014
Less than 1% of public and charitable funding from bodies in the UK was awarded to antibiotics rese…

Voyager may not be in interstellar space
Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 Aug 2014
In 2012, Voyager 1 crossed into interstellar space, but it might not have reached this historic mil…

Hidden magma tracked
Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 Aug 2014
Despite being hidden deep underground, magma has an incredibly strong influence not only on the pla…

Cell division ‘master key’ protein structure revealed
Evoluted New Media | Added: 31 Jul 2014
One of the most important proteins found in nature has been mapped by scientists from the Institute…

Malaria research close to understanding parasite lifecycle
Evoluted New Media | Added: 30 Jul 2014
A Nottingham researcher who had malaria seven times as a child is close to understanding the life-c…

Self-assembling nanoparticle could aid cancer diagnosis
Evoluted New Media | Added: 29 Jul 2014
A new self-assembling nanoparticle which targets cancerous tumours could boost the effectiveness of…

Control protein switch found
Evoluted New Media | Added: 28 Jul 2014
Research from Dundee has revealed how a complex protein pivotal in the development of cancer, autoi…

Doing the walk of life
Evoluted New Media | Added: 25 Jul 2014
For 50 million years, animals have used the same food foraging techniques suggests research from th…

Hope for sufferers of rare childhood disease
Evoluted New Media | Added: 24 Jul 2014
Scientists as Newcastle University have taken the first step toward treating the rare childhood dis…

Svalbard reindeer numbers on the rise
Evoluted New Media | Added: 23 Jul 2014
In an unexpected twist, climate change is having a positive effect on the Norwegian reindeers of Sv…

Snapshot of photosynthesis reveals process
Evoluted New Media | Added: 22 Jul 2014
Femtosecond snapshots of photosynthetic water oxidation have enabled researchers to understand how …

Glacial microbes affect albedo
Evoluted New Media | Added: 21 Jul 2014
Microbes drastically reduce the surface reflectivity of glaciers and have a non-negligible impact o…

Polymorphism increases risk of stroke and heart attack
Evoluted New Media | Added: 21 Jul 2014
A genetic variant found in platelets is associated with an increased risk of stroke and heart attac…

DNA replication fork visualised
Evoluted New Media | Added: 18 Jul 2014
An American team have built the first model to decipher what goes on at the ‘replication fork’ duri…

New finding challenges belief birds evolved from dinosaurs
Evoluted New Media | Added: 17 Jul 2014
A sparrow-sized fossil from China challenges the commonly held belief that birds evolved from groun…

Protein pocket could lead to new treatment for Fragile X
Evoluted New Media | Added: 16 Jul 2014
A pocket found in the structure of a protein linked to genetic disorder Fragile X Syndrome could he…

Willetts leaves post in cabinet reshuffle
Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Jul 2014
David Willetts will no longer hold his post as Minister of State for Universities and Science in Da…

Injected polio vaccine to boost immunity
Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Jul 2014
A type of polio vaccine that fell out of favour in the 1960s could hasten the eradication of the di…

The shrinking human genome
Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Jul 2014
Our understanding of the human genome has been reduced to 19,000 genes, almost all of which have an…

Cloud formation slowed by biodiesel emission
Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Jul 2014
Global cloud formation and rainfall could be more dramatically and unexpectedly affected by the inc…