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Funding secured for home blood clot test
Evoluted New Media | Added: 29 Nov 2010
Microvisk Technologies have raised over £2.5 million through a rights deal with existing investors …

Solar dip warms planet
Evoluted New Media | Added: 26 Nov 2010
A decrease in the Sun’s activity doesn’t always mean it gets cooler here on Earth; scientists belie…

Urine offers up climate change insight
Evoluted New Media | Added: 24 Nov 2010
Urine from the rock hyrax which has crystallised over thousands of years is providing a previously …

Blood vessel genotype switch causes cancer stir
Evoluted New Media | Added: 24 Nov 2010
An important breakthrough in the way anti-cancer drugs are tested has been made by scientists at th…

Your heart loves chocolate
Evoluted New Media | Added: 24 Nov 2010
With Christmas fast approaching, the Lab News team are looking forward to the mountain of chocolate…

Tracing selenium
Evoluted New Media | Added: 24 Nov 2010
The absence of selenium – a little known trace element – in the body may help scientists understand…

Super-twisted
Evoluted New Media | Added: 24 Nov 2010
Light that has been twisted like a corkscrew and then twisted even tighter has been used by Scottis…

Powered by poo
Evoluted New Media | Added: 22 Nov 2010
I’m all for recycling, but the news that residents in Didcot are using their own poo to heat their …

Is your headache genetic?
Evoluted New Media | Added: 19 Nov 2010
Your family could quite literally be responsible for giving you a headache say scientists who have …

Boost for prolactin research
Evoluted New Media | Added: 18 Nov 2010
Understanding how the body responds to hormonal changes and inflammation could help treat diseases …

Doh! Losing ‘Homer Simpson’ gene makes mice smart
Evoluted New Media | Added: 17 Nov 2010
A gene has been dubbed the Homer Simpson gene by its discoverers because it holds mice back mentall…

Sting in the tail
Evoluted New Media | Added: 17 Nov 2010
A Central American scorpion could hold the key to reducing heart bypass failures say scientists fro…

LHC begins new phase
Evoluted New Media | Added: 16 Nov 2010
The Large Hadron Collider has successfully recorded lead ion collisions moving scientists ever clos…

Geckos feet stickier in the heat
Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Nov 2010
Geckos are amazing creatures – put them on a sheet of glass turn them upside down and they cling to…

Parkinson’s symptoms relieved
Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Nov 2010
Removing the part of the brain that controls habitual movements could relieve symptoms in Parkinson…

Dual approach gets to heart of earthquakes
Evoluted New Media | Added: 13 Nov 2010
Earth scientists have made a huge leap forward in understanding how earthquakes are formed using st…

MRI used to locate sense of introspection
Evoluted New Media | Added: 12 Nov 2010
What makes us human is the ability to reflect on our own thoughts, emotions and behaviour, but some…

Andromeda in ultraviolet
Evoluted New Media | Added: 10 Nov 2010
The most distant object visible to the naked eye – the Andromeda Galaxy – has been bought into focu…

Star Wars hologram to be reality
Evoluted New Media | Added: 10 Nov 2010
Holographic messages like Princess Leia’s call for help in Star Wars could become a reality thanks …

Smoker's brain
Evoluted New Media | Added: 10 Nov 2010
Does smoking lead to a thinning of a specific region of the cerebral cortex, or are people with a t…