Interviews about Biology

Three scientists sit down to drink and debate...

A visit to a world leader in genome sequencing...

What was Mendel really interested in?

Mendel's laws were also used to support less savoury ideas...

In 1900, everything changed...

Genius doesn't spring from thin air...

Where better to meet Mendel than a garden...

How does your dog smell?

How superbugs spread across Europe

People with haemophilia cannot clot their blood. An new gene therapy could change that...

In the first study of its kind, the plastic in cigarette ends are stunting the growth of plants around us.

A global study of sharks finds that they’re in danger of being fished over a quarter of their entire habitat.

Every two minutes someone in the UK is diagnosed with cancer, can a new treatment change that?

How do you simulate a human heart?

A giant agave plant in Cambridge is preparing to flower for the first time in 57 years!

The pointing gesture comes from us trying to reach out and touch something.

What makes the best excuse?

When is the best time to fit pregnancy into a busy lab schedule?

Protein sequences from freshwater molluscs solves and archaeological riddle...

Adaptive optics is enabling scientists to see individual blood cells moving in the retina...

European beewolves paralyse their prey and use nitric oxide gas to keep the corpse fresh...

A monkey with a missing primary visual cortex can still see... but how?

Do plants have consciousness?

Meet the creatures locked in a sonic arms race...