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One-stop-shop for cancer research
Evoluted New Media | Added: 28 Jan 2011
A one-stop-shop cancer drug discovery database has been launched by scientists who hope it will spe…

Keeping blood sugar under control
Evoluted New Media | Added: 26 Jan 2011
A new mechanism for controlling blood sugar levels following a meal has been discovered by scientis…

Couch potato sheds light on exercise and diabetes
Evoluted New Media | Added: 24 Jan 2011
Mice lacking in a protein coactivator maintain normal activity and body weight, but can’t seem to m…

Banded penguins suffer
Evoluted New Media | Added: 24 Jan 2011
Trying to tell one penguin apart from another can be quite difficult – the tuxedoed birds tend to l…

Fatal childhood disease treated with soya
Evoluted New Media | Added: 21 Jan 2011
Soya beans could hold the key to treating a fatal childhood disease say researchers in Manchester, …

Science talent worries over immigration cap
Evoluted New Media | Added: 19 Jan 2011
The Government is proposing to cap the number of non-EU economic migrants entering the UK at 21,700…

GM against bird flu
Evoluted New Media | Added: 19 Jan 2011
Genetically modified chickens with a decoy molecule could prevent the spread of avian flu to other …

Clever plastics indicate off food
Evoluted New Media | Added: 19 Jan 2011
Packaging that changes colour to alert consumers when food is starting to go off is being developed…

Resurrecting the mighty
Evoluted New Media | Added: 19 Jan 2011
In an attempt to figure out why the mammoth became extinct over 10,000 years ago, an international …

Buckyball leads to 3D breakthrough
Evoluted New Media | Added: 17 Jan 2011
A ‘guest’ molecule has led to a major breakthrough in nanotechnology by allowing scientists to buil…

Rhea’s Atmosphere holds surprise oxygen
Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Jan 2011
A fragile atmosphere of carbon dioxide and oxygen has been discovered around Rhea, Saturn’s second-…

Monopoles and magnetricity - the story of spin ice
Evoluted New Media | Added: 12 Jan 2011
A major breakthrough has been made in understanding magnetic monopoles and magnetricity as scientis…

Leaky blood vessel drug treats Alzheimer’s
Evoluted New Media | Added: 10 Jan 2011
Drugs currently used to treat leaky blood vessels could treat symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease say r…

Innocent bystander is not so innocent
Evoluted New Media | Added: 7 Jan 2011
The long-standing mystery of how HIV promotes the death of CD4 T cells and causes AIDS has been sol…

Sloppy maths surprisingly useful
Evoluted New Media | Added: 6 Jan 2011
If your head is still a little fuzzy after the New Year and you can’t keep up with the calculations…

Scientists honoured in New Year list
Evoluted New Media | Added: 6 Jan 2011
The New Year’s Honours Lists was announced at the end of 2010, and science featured prominently wit…

What’s yours?
Evoluted New Media | Added: 6 Jan 2011
It might be a New Year, but the resolutions are the same – and our brain hampers our efforts to sti…

Bettering Haber-Bosch
Evoluted New Media | Added: 5 Jan 2011
Cambridge researchers think they’ve figured out a way to improve the efficiency of ammonia synthesi…

New component to gravity explains anomaly
Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Jan 2011
Einstein’s Theory of Relativity can be reconciled with a new force which explains the rotation of s…

Antibiotics boost
Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Jan 2011
A company developing novel DNA-based antibiotic technology against drug-resistant infections has re…