Biology Interviews

The Cambridge Science Festival

Meera Senthilingam brings us the highlights of this years Cambridge Science Festival...Jim Haselhof, University of Cambridge; Gareth Fabrow, University of Cambridge; Gordron Day, Williams F1, Holly Margerison, MRC

Reading Thoughts with a Brain Scanner

We discover a way to read a person’s thoughts using a brain scanner...Dr Demis Hassabis

The Ressurection Plant's Trick For Tropical Vaccines

Matt Cottingham explains how undetanding the structure of the resurrection plant could help us create live vaccines that are able to withstand hot climates...Matt Cottingham, University of Oxford

How Safe is our Mineral Water?

Martin Wagner explains how his team have been looking into the release of oestrogen-like chemicals from in our mineral water...Marin Wagner, University of Frankfurt

Oestrogen in the Water

How do hormones, like oestrogen, affect aqatic ecosystems? Professor Karen Kidd explains more...Professor Karen Kidd, University of New Brunswick

Bisphenol-A and Human Health

Can plastics pollute your body? We speak to Tamara Galloway who has identified a link between heart disease and bisphenol-A, the base of polycarbonate plastics... Professor Tamara Galloway, Exeter University

The Chemical that Keeps Nerves Alive

Researchers at Cambridge’s Babraham Institute have identified a factor that helps to stop nerves from degenerating. This could lead to better treatments for degenerative diseases, but also better ways to halt the degradation of a nerve when it gets damage as a result of an injury or stroke...Dr. Michael Coleman, the Babraham Institute.

Auditory Illusions

Bob Carlyon explores the illusory side of our hearing...Bob Carlyon, University of Cambridge

The Genetics of Hearing

Karen steel discusses the genetic mutations and changes that can impair our hearing...Professor Karen Steel, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute

Why Skull Bone is Special Bone

Ian McKay discusses the differences between the bone in our limbs and our skull...Dr Ian McKay, Queen Mary University of London

2009's Naked Science in retrospect

For the final show on 2009, and the decade, the team look back on some of the year's "Naked-Scientific" highlights...

Dissecting Christmas Dinner

Dr John Brackenbury gets out his scalpel to reveal what the inner anatomical workings of a cooked chicken...Dr John Brackenbury, Cambridge University Vet School

Protecting, Anti-'flu Viruses

Nigel Dimmock discusses a new anti-influenza strategy - a virus that protects you from infection...Nigel Dimmock, Warwick University

How are 'Flu Vaccines Produced?

How are 'flu vaccines prepared, how long does it take and how is the technology evolving?Tarit Mukhopadhyay, John Dillon, Rino Rappuoli

What Causes Tamiflu Resistance?

James Wood addresses the concerns of tamiflu resistance in our population and reveals if we really should be worrying about it...James Wood, Cambridge Infectious Diseases Consortium

Did Swine 'Flu Escape from a Laboratory?

Where do new pandemic strains of influenza come from? Canberra-based virologist Adrian Gibbs wonders whether swine flu could have come from a laboratory...Adrian Gibbs, Canberra

Hepatitis C in the Clinic

Graeme Alexander explains the effects of Hepatitis C on the body adn the current methods of treatment against the virus...Dr Graeme Alexander, Addenbrookes Hospital

Safer Blood Transfusions

Meera Senthilingam investigates how safe the blood we receive in transfusions really is...Jean-Pierre Allain, University of Cambridge & Lorna Williamson, NHS Blood and Transplants

Hepatitis C Virology

Joe Grove discusses the sneaky ways the Hepatitis C virus evades our immune system...Dr Joe Groves, Birmingham University

Moved by the Power of Speech

It's often said that someone can move you with the words they use. Now scientists have shown that this really is true, both metaphorically and physically. Research published this week shows that the sensation of the breath of a speaker on our skin can alter sound perception.Dr Bryan Gick, University of British Columbia