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Hookworms to treat MS
Evoluted New Media | Added: 30 Apr 2012
Parasitic worms could offer a new treatment for people with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) say researchers…

Dione has oxygen exosphere
Evoluted New Media | Added: 27 Apr 2012
Saturn’s moon Dione has a weak exosphere which includes molecules of oxygen suggests new findings f…

Glowing fish offer clues to pollution damage
Evoluted New Media | Added: 27 Apr 2012
Green-glowing zebrafish could offer new clues to the health impacts of pollution on both wildlife a…

Brain freeze offers new insight into headache
Evoluted New Media | Added: 27 Apr 2012
The phenomenon of brain freeze – associated with eating ice-cream and cold drinks – has been used a…

New clues to cancer communication
Evoluted New Media | Added: 27 Apr 2012
There is growing interest in the idea that the body’s immune system might be trained to fight cance…

Sanofi to close R&D and drug manufacturing site
Evoluted New Media | Added: 25 Apr 2012
Sanofi are to close their drug manufacturing site in Newcastle, and the Genzyme R&D site in Cambrid…

Observing embryonic development
Evoluted New Media | Added: 25 Apr 2012
Embryonic development that was previously unobservable has now become observable thanks to Cambridg…

Advances in blood clot switch understanding
Evoluted New Media | Added: 25 Apr 2012
Scientists have made a leap forward in understanding how a biochemical switch linked to blood-clott…

Marine worm with a toxic diet
Evoluted New Media | Added: 23 Apr 2012
Faced with a scarce food supply in the sandy sediments in which it lives, a small marine worm survi…

Glowing nanotubes to aid therapeutics
Evoluted New Media | Added: 23 Apr 2012
Glowing carbon nanotubes could be the key to delivering drugs to cancer cells or modified DNA molec…

Click chemistry to aid biotechnology research
Evoluted New Media | Added: 20 Apr 2012
A new technique to click together DNA and RNA segments has won researchers from Southampton and Oxf…

Revealing how a soil bacterium carries out surprising chemistry
Evoluted New Media | Added: 18 Apr 2012
An international team of researchers have discovered how soil bacteria utilising surprising chemist…

Tweezers break up Parkinson’s aggregates
Evoluted New Media | Added: 16 Apr 2012
Molecular tweezers have been shown to block protein aggregation, prevent toxicity and reverse aggre…

Inbreeding didn't kill off Wrangel mammoths
Evoluted New Media | Added: 13 Apr 2012
Mammoths living on Wrangel Island didn’t go extinct due to inbreeding says new research.!--more--
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Fruit flies get kidney stones
Evoluted New Media | Added: 13 Apr 2012
When exposed to certain dietary foods, fruit flies rapidly and reliably get kidney stones.!--more--…

Earth's clock refined
Evoluted New Media | Added: 13 Apr 2012
Some events in Earth’s history may have happened more recently than previously thought suggests new…

Protecting cells from HIV
Evoluted New Media | Added: 12 Apr 2012
The protein SAMHD1 protects cells from infection by HIV, and researchers hope to harness its protec…

Ocean acidification speeds up
Evoluted New Media | Added: 11 Apr 2012
The oceans are acidifying faster today than at any other time in the past 300 million years say res…

Heart attack deaths halve in last decade
Evoluted New Media | Added: 10 Apr 2012
The number of deaths in England caused by heart attacks has halved in the last decade say researche…

Hep C vaccine breakthrough
Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 Apr 2012
A decade of research into hepatitis C may have yielded results as researchers in Canada have announ…