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Edinburgh student scoops Abcam award
Evoluted New Media | Added: 24 Mar 2014
Edinburgh student Yali Huang has won the Abcam 15 Discoveries Contest, receiving a $15,000 research…
Epigenetic root to endometriosis
Evoluted New Media | Added: 24 Mar 2014
An epigenetic modification could be an integral component in endometriosis and its progression sugg…
Antimicrobial pizza herb
Evoluted New Media | Added: 21 Mar 2014
A simple herb used on pizzas could play an important role in defeating the winter vomiting bug say …
Surplus neurons could cause neurodevelopmental disorders
Evoluted New Media | Added: 19 Mar 2014
Autism could be caused by cells called microglia failing to trim unnecessary connections between ne…
The slow thaw
Evoluted New Media | Added: 19 Mar 2014
Despite the headline-making recent insights, some maintain the Universe didn’t start with the Big B…
New evidence for Big Bang
Evoluted New Media | Added: 17 Mar 2014
Researchers in America believe they have found a signal left in the sky by the super-rapid expansio…
Synthetic Dirac monopoles visualised
Evoluted New Media | Added: 17 Mar 2014
Eighty years ago, Paul Dirac discovered a quantum-mechanical structure which allowed the existence …
Wobbly spinning top planet found
Evoluted New Media | Added: 12 Mar 2014
NASA’s Kepler space telescope has spotted a wobbly planet akin to a child’s spinning top near the c…
Circadian clock sensitive to vibration
Evoluted New Media | Added: 10 Mar 2014
The internal circadian clock of the fruit fly can be influenced by more than just the cycle of nigh…
Engraving glass prevents shattering
Evoluted New Media | Added: 7 Mar 2014
Drop a glass on the floor and the likelihood is it will smash; do the same with a seashell and it w…
Prostate cancer drugs ‘not treating root cause’
Evoluted New Media | Added: 5 Mar 2014
New drugs aimed at treating prostate cancer may not be targeting the root cause of the disease say …
Cognitive powers unique to humans
Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Mar 2014
An area of the brain responsible for strategic planning, decision making and multi-tasking is uniqu…
Hairy materials grown on microscale
Evoluted New Media | Added: 27 Feb 2014
Materials constructed of tiny little hairs self-assembled at the microscale could be used in the ne…
Cas9’s secrets revealed
Evoluted New Media | Added: 26 Feb 2014
Bacterial enzyme Cas9 needs short DNA sequences to identify and degrade foreign DNA during viral in…
New oncology deal for Immunocore
Evoluted New Media | Added: 24 Feb 2014
Biotechnology company Immunocore has entered into an oncology research collaboration and licensing …
Borophene competition to graphene
Evoluted New Media | Added: 21 Feb 2014
Chemists have produced the first experimental evidence of the existence of borophene – a single-ato…
Sudden collapse could await insect networks
Evoluted New Media | Added: 20 Feb 2014
Insect pollinators play a crucial role in food security and biodiversity and are already subject to…
On-demand nano-vaccines
Evoluted New Media | Added: 19 Feb 2014
Vaccines produced on the spot when and where a disease is breaking out might be possible thanks to …
Sodium key to opioid brain signalling
Evoluted New Media | Added: 17 Feb 2014
A high-resolution 3-D view of an opioid receptor’s atomic structure has resolved the 40-year myster…
Love in the air at CERN
Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Feb 2014
As CERN celebrates its 60th anniversary this year, a pair of Italian physicists whose lives have be…
