Interviews about Medicine

Cycling fans were devastated when Lance Armstrong was found guilty of systematic doping. But how can we prevent this in...

Ever been up all night partying and then crashed out completely the next day? That’s your brain sleep bank getting out...

Could we ever analyse Hitler’s genetic fingerprint or his DNA to predict his motivation, reward and sense of punishment?

New data has been published that suggests reported incidences of domestic violence increase after an England football...

Some scientists are taking data from the football pitch and analysing it to see how the rest of us interact in the real...

There are millions of fans singing their teams praises across Brazil at the moment, but how does this chanting affect...

Electronic cigarette are currently unregulated - so who's using them, do they help people quit smoking, and are...

American scientists warn that sun worshippers risk becoming addicted to the ultra violet rays in sunshine.

This week marked the 150th birthday of Alois Alzheimer. But what happens in our brains when the disease he discovered...

Scientists have teamed up with games developers to make Cascade - a video game which they hope can explain Alzheimer...

Scientists have grown neurons from arm hair which could help in the battle against Alzheimer's Disease...

How could fruit flies help eliminate Alzheimer's disease?

A 3D print of the spine of King Richard III has shown that the monarch probably wasn't a hunchback...

In the fight to tackle the spread of malaria, could the answer lie in warping the gender balance of the mosquito...

A protein complex called TSET sheds light on the evolution of trafficking pathways.

How the parasite that causes sleeping sickness keeps one step ahead of its host.

The immune response triggered by eczema may reduce the risk of skin cancer

How do we walk and chew gum at the same time?

So we have ways of protecting proteins, enzymes, and bacteria - but what about something infinitely more complicated -...

Krishnāa Mahbubani has been developing a way to put vaccines into suspended animation so they don’t need...

Bacteria can produce spores, natural packages which last for hundreds of years. Can we use these to keep drugs on the...

Had bad day? Think twice about posting a miserable status update on social media, because you might be bringing all...

Professor Jane Davies, at Imperial College London, is involved in a major UK trial of gene therapy for cystic fibrosis.

At UCL, Professor James Bainbridge is developing gene therapy approaches for treating sight loss. I asked him about the...