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Four new genes confirmed to increase familial breast cancer risk
Evoluted New Media | Added: 20 Jun 2014
Four new genes have been added to those already known to increase the risk of familial breast cance…
Statins of questionable value
Evoluted New Media | Added: 19 Jun 2014
Drugs designed to lower the levels of “bad cholesterol” in the blood could condemn middle-aged adul…
Chemical sensor on a chip
Evoluted New Media | Added: 19 Jun 2014
Infrared laser beams are ideal for analysing liquids and gases, and scientists in Vienna have minia…
Liquid biopsy to track lung cancer
Evoluted New Media | Added: 18 Jun 2014
A liquid biopsy using a patient’s blood sample could offer a new way to track lung cancer say resea…
Origami on the microscopic
Evoluted New Media | Added: 18 Jun 2014
Dutch researchers have taken the ancient art of origami down to the microscopic level, folding flat…
Travel Fellowships for science communicators
Evoluted New Media | Added: 17 Jun 2014
To mark its 50th anniversary in 2015, the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust is to invest £1.2m in Br…
One-size-fits-all synthetic blood
Evoluted New Media | Added: 16 Jun 2014
Donated blood has a short shelf-life – only 35 days for red cells – but now researchers in Essex ho…
Proteome catalogue reveals 193 unknown proteins
Evoluted New Media | Added: 13 Jun 2014
A proteome catalogue has revealed 193 novel proteins in regions of the genome not predicted to code…
Molecular scaffold key to neurodegenerative disease
Evoluted New Media | Added: 13 Jun 2014
A molecular scaffold that allows key parts of the cell to communicate falls apart in dementia and m…
Supernova explosions recreated in the lab
Evoluted New Media | Added: 12 Jun 2014
A scaled supernova explosion has been recreated in the laboratory using lasers 60,000 billion times…
That ‘gut feeling’ explained
Evoluted New Media | Added: 11 Jun 2014
By severing the brain-gut communication channel, researchers have got to the bottom of the proverbi…
Deep sea root of marine evolution sparks controversy
Evoluted New Media | Added: 11 Jun 2014
The deep ocean may have played a much bigger role in protecting marine diversity than first thought…
Incentives needed to encourage data sharing
Evoluted New Media | Added: 10 Jun 2014
New types of incentives within the biomedical research community are necessary to improve sharing o…
New method to detect counterfeit drugs
Evoluted New Media | Added: 9 Jun 2014
Counterfeit medicines could now be detected more efficiently thanks to a new chemical analysis meth…
Mega-Earth found in Kepler-10c
Evoluted New Media | Added: 6 Jun 2014
The ‘Godzilla of Earths’ has been discovered by astronomers; the new type of planet is a mega-Earth…
Soft touch gone awry in autism
Evoluted New Media | Added: 5 Jun 2014
Nerves in the skin that respond to gentle touch may go awry in disorders such as autism say researc…
Aerospace company set to communicate with NASA spacecraft
Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 Jun 2014
Aerospace company SkyCorp Inc have been given the go ahead to attempt to communicate with a 35-year…
Celebrating Great British Science
Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Jun 2014
Frank James, Professor of the History of Science at the Royal Institution, has nominated Faraday’s …
Combating drug resistance in melanoma
Evoluted New Media | Added: 2 Jun 2014
Resistance to a treatment for advanced melanoma could be prevented by blocking a druggable family o…
Leap in modelling cardiovascular disease
Evoluted New Media | Added: 30 May 2014
American scientists have made a huge leap forward in genetic modelling after growing functioning hu…
