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Research council opens commercial gates
Evoluted New Media | Added: 22 Aug 2008
The Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) has won nearly £1m to help it support the commercia…

Fangs for the inspiration
Evoluted New Media | Added: 20 Aug 2008
When searching for a new class of super-strong, lightweight materials for use in spacecraft, US res…

A word in your shell like...
Evoluted New Media | Added: 18 Aug 2008
Finding a seashell is one of the many pleasures of a summer holiday on the coast - but many people …

Marine creatures get a pounding
Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Aug 2008
Antarctic worms, sea spiders, urchins and other marine creatures living in near-shore shallow habit…

Tomatoes to carry Alzheimer's vaccine
Evoluted New Media | Added: 13 Aug 2008
Korean researchers have taken a promising first step towards finding an edible vaccine against the …

Ulcer bug discovered in mummies
Evoluted New Media | Added: 11 Aug 2008
Remnants of the bacterium that causes stomach ulcers, Helicobacter pylori, have been discovered in …

'MitoCarta' maps out organelle
Evoluted New Media | Added: 8 Aug 2008
Scientists have gained several insights into the biological roles of proteins by creating the most …

New appointment promises to bee a success
Evoluted New Media | Added: 6 Aug 2008
The beekeeping community is buzzing as the University of Sussex appoints the UK’s only Professor of…

Livestock superbugs leave few treatment options
Evoluted New Media | Added: 4 Aug 2008
Antibiotic resistance is a common battle for those in the medical sciences - but now it seems that …

Funding council make 'difficult choices' to deliver £2 billion
Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 Aug 2008
The Science and Technology Facilities Council have made ‘difficult choices’ in order to promise £1.…

Huge Camera to shed light on dark energy
Evoluted New Media | Added: 29 Jul 2008
Three quarters of our Universe is still unaccounted for and predicted by theoreticians to exist as …

Cells gobble up micro-doughnuts
Evoluted New Media | Added: 23 Jul 2008
Conventional doughnuts may not be particularly good for our health but newly developed, tiny ring ‘…

Sea-faring rubber snakes help solve energy crisis
Evoluted New Media | Added: 23 Jul 2008
Giant rubber tubes that harness the energy of the waves may be a way of producing affordable energy…

Plastic fantastic for electronics industry
Evoluted New Media | Added: 23 Jul 2008
Tipped to revolutionise the electronics market, experts predict plastic electronics will provide be…

Spin-out restores antibiotic action
Evoluted New Media | Added: 21 Jul 2008
A spin-out company from the John Innes plant and microbial science centre in Norwich has won fundin…

Prosthetics company reaches for success
Evoluted New Media | Added: 18 Jul 2008
A company spawned from university research to create one of the world’s most advanced artificial li…

Lab rats dive straight in to race
Evoluted New Media | Added: 16 Jul 2008
Microbiology lab staff from across Scotland have proved that their talents extend beyond assays and…

Super computer proves to be a real chatter box
Evoluted New Media | Added: 16 Jul 2008
Scientists are to use a powerful super computer to mimic the part of the brain that controls speech…

Anatomists face the facts
Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Jul 2008
Laugh and the world laughs with you, but express extreme fear and you could be on your own.

Elements are music to chemist's ears
Evoluted New Media | Added: 11 Jul 2008
Here at Lab News we like to think we are pretty up on current scientific debate, and if there was e…