Interviews about Biology

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

The same trick used by the resurrection plant can keep vaccines in pristine condition without the need for...

Can plastics pollute your body? We speak to Tamara Galloway who has identified a link between heart disease and...

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

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

Researchers at Cambridge’s Babraham Institute have identified a factor that helps to stop nerves from degenerating....

Bob Carlyon explores the illusory side of our hearing...

Karen steel discusses the genetic mutations and changes that can impair our hearing...

Dr John Brackenbury gets out his scalpel to reveal what the inner anatomical workings of a cooked chicken...

Ian McKay discusses the differences between the bone in our limbs and our skull...

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

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

James Wood addresses the concerns of tamiflu resistance in our population and reveals if we really should be worrying...

How are 'flu vaccines prepared, how long does it take and how is the technology evolving?

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

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

Joe Grove discusses the sneaky ways the Hepatitis C virus evades our immune system...

Meera Senthilingam investigates how safe the blood we receive in transfusions really is...

It's often said that someone can move you with the words they use. Now scientists have shown that this really is...

We discover the health benefits of cereals rich in polysaccharides...

Jan Arthur discusses how her team find new viruses by analysing faecal samples...

Tim Sutton is grappling with the problem of too much Boron in Southern Australia...

We discover how the timing of a grape killing itself, is the secret to a producing a good wine...

Bushfires can ruin a wine when smoke chemicals penetrate the grapevine. But now Adelaide-based scientists may have come...