Interviews about Biology

There are many, diverse causes of blindness, with Inherited Retinal Degeneration affecting one in 2000 people in the UK...

Do plants suffer from jetlag? We meet Steve Kay at UCSD, who invited us to his forest laboratory to explain how plants...

The best way to monitor and understand the sea is to go with the flow! Jules Jaffe and colleagues at Scripps Institute...

In a box hidden in a corner of the lab belonging to the late Stanley Miller was an experiment which could explain the...

We reveal how DNA analysis can reveal the origins of crop domestication.

In place of this week's Kitchen Science experiment, Ben attended a National Pathology Week event run by the Royal...

A recent Pathology success story - the drug CamPath, which is also known as alemtuzumab and was originally developed at...

the beer goggles, or stella-vision, is a well known phenomenon where a few alcoholic drinks makes other people seem...

Time to get your dancing shoes on! It seems that the way you dance could say something about your genetic fitness – in...

John Bailey joins us to explain the problem with Japanese knotweed, and how this alien species could be kept under...

Immunotherapy, using the body's own immune cells to attack a tumour, could provide an alternative to radiotherapy...

Meera finds out how to keep your skin looking young and healthy...

Meera finds out how to keep your skin looking young and healthy...

DNA damage leads to many of the diseases we associate with ageing, so if we could stop DNA from being damaged, or...

We know that antibodies must pass from breastmilk to baby's blood, but only now have scientists watched one in the...

Some bacteria sense an immune response, and then become hyper-virulent. This means that treatment with antibiotics...

The bacterium MRSA has been the big villain of hospital acquired infections – it’s resistant to common antibacterial...

Whether or not bacteria stick around in your local hospital isn’t always down to local conditions or cleaning....

In some cases, the human heart can be 'pre-conditioned', and as such can withstand the damage of a heart...

A new penguin tracking system can recognise an individual penguin from afar...

Chris talks to Karen Kidd from the University of New Brunswick in Canada about a study that investigated the...

Deep water corals, just like their relatives on the reefs, are an indication of a healthy ecosystem - but they also act...

Trawl fishing involved hauling a net behind a boat, and is extremely good for catching large numbers of fish. However...

David Karl from the University of Hawaii talks to Meera about the problems we face as climate change threatens ocean...