Interviews about Biology

Meet the winning discoveries: Hepatitis C, the gene editing technique CRISPR, and a supermassive black hole...

Following my leader: how and why ants and termites do it differently...

A unique look into how human cultures may have evolved

Can people be gently persuaded to eat less meat?

After hundreds of elephants died suddenly in Botswana, poisoning by toxic algal blooms appears to be the cause...

Only 14% of UK waterways are considered "healthy"...

Lots of animals have evolved to deal with toxins, and many of them become toxic in turn...

Some COVID patients don't have detectable antibodies - but they do produce immune cells called T cells...

Toads, bugs, snakes, and more all resist similar toxins. And it turns out they use the same genetic trick...

These orange, black and white insects use special evolutionary tricks to transport the toxins they eat...

The muscles around our ears move in the direction we are listening

Tourist boats are bothering whales, despite keeping their distance

Hearing about the new coronavirus, many were struck with déjà vu - because parts have happened before...

The first cases were reported in people in the city of Wuhan. Where and how did bats get involved?

The virus binds perfectly to human proteins. What's the explanation?

Analysis of the very first SARS-CoV-2 samples shows they already looked evolved to infect us...

Scientists tested people in rural China and found infections of a separate coronavirus...

When it comes to the origins of COVID, there are still lots of unknowns. But we can be sure of a sequel...

We can't rule out the possibility - but the evidence seems to point to a natural origin...

In the live rodent trade, infections with a coronavirus go up the closer you get to the consumer...

Based on the first gene sequences of the coronavirus, it may not have come from Wuhan at all...

Scientists haven't found an animal carrying the coronavirus yet. Where is it? And is it a bat or not?

The advance party has been and gone - and now an international team will travel to Wuhan to ask questions...

How and why do animals play?