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New home for cell research
Evoluted New Media | Added: 22 Dec 2010
Scientists investigating the building blocks of life are being built a new home at the University o…
Is Santa toxic?
Evoluted New Media | Added: 22 Dec 2010
How does Santa survive in the North Pole? Not only is it freezing cold, but everything he eats is l…
Saving the Christmas tree
Evoluted New Media | Added: 22 Dec 2010
Your living room floor is awash with needles from the Christmas tree because the plant hormone ethy…
Tropical mistletoe discovered
Evoluted New Media | Added: 22 Dec 2010
A new parasitic tropical mistletoe has been described just in time for Christmas. The mistletoe – d…
Variant for reduced hypertension discovered
Evoluted New Media | Added: 21 Dec 2010
A genetic variation that is associated with reduced hypertension and a 7.7% reduction in cardiovasc…
Perforin packs a punch
Evoluted New Media | Added: 16 Dec 2010
The human immune system’s assassin – the protein perforin – has been seen in action for the first t…
Where are the women?
Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Dec 2010
There’s a real lack of women representing science – most young adults can’t name a female scientist…
Urine test for CAD
Evoluted New Media | Added: 10 Dec 2010
A simple urine test that looks for particular protein expressions can detect coronary artery diseas…
Hope for combined muscle stimulator
Evoluted New Media | Added: 9 Dec 2010
A microchip that stimulates muscles and helps people with paraplegia exercise their leg muscles wil…
New bacteria eats away at Titanic
Evoluted New Media | Added: 9 Dec 2010
The hull of the famous RMS Titanic, which sunk in April 1912, is harbouring a lot more than the shi…
Sci-fi screwdriver being developed
Evoluted New Media | Added: 9 Dec 2010
Somewhere on children’s Christmas list this year there’s bound to be Doctor Who’s famous cure-all g…
Grey fabric could save the day
Evoluted New Media | Added: 8 Dec 2010
An ordinary-looking piece of grey fabric could be a life saver as it has been designed to filter ou…
Gene variation means ‘perfection’ impossible
Evoluted New Media | Added: 7 Dec 2010
No human carries a perfect genome with each person carrying between 250 and 300 genetic variations …
Obesity riddle sovled
Evoluted New Media | Added: 7 Dec 2010
The prevalence of overweight children spontaneously dropped if they followed a high-protein, low-GI…
Attention test suggests early start for Alzheimer’s
Evoluted New Media | Added: 6 Dec 2010
Alzheimer’s disease may begin as early as 40 say researchers who have developed simple attention te…
New forms of life on Earth
Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Dec 2010
It turns out phosphorus isn’t a necessary part of our DNA say American scientists who discovered a …
Pimping-up graphene
Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Dec 2010
By tinkering with graphene, one of this year’s Nobel Prize winners has developed a flat crystal ver…
Malaria breakthrough as team hone drug targets
Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Dec 2010
A major breakthrough has been made in the race to find new vaccines and treatments against malaria …
Divergence of the mosquitoes
Evoluted New Media | Added: 2 Dec 2010
Mosquitoes responsible for spreading malaria in sub-Saharan Africa are evolving into two separate s…
Rapid stem cell culture promises cartilage repair
Evoluted New Media | Added: 29 Nov 2010
Damaged and disease joints could be repaired with cells derived from embryonic stem cells after sci…
