Interviews about Medicine

Generating different types of hormone-secreting cells from human tissue sources could lead to new treatments for...

Viruses have been used to deliver two types of nucleases into cells for targeted gene editing.

Drugs could treat neuropathic pain more effectively if they targeted more than one type of ion channel.

Professor Marcus Munafo is trying to get to the bottom of another big question - how much of our personality is nature...

Dr David Sweatt is researching one of the most fundamental questions in brain research - how we make memories.

Scientists in Amsterdam have been looking at the blood of a 115 year old woman to see what her genes can tell us about...

Scientists have discovered that electricity from cochlear implants can be used to deliver gene therapy and improve...

How sheep and mice are being used to study Huntington’s disease

How the gene for Huntington's disease was discovered

Mike Dragonow is able to culture stem cells that he gets from the brain bank. He grows the adult human brain cells to...

Richard price talks of his experiences of his wife and Huntington's disease

Hannah Critchlow is taken on a tour of a bank of frozen human brains which are helping to inform Huntington's...

Are there any better diagnostic tests, or biomarkers, that could help with early diagnosis of Alzheimer’s?

Why is diagnosis still so difficult? And why are the treatments currently on offer for Alzheimer’s so inadequate? We...

How are memories formed and lost? Is Alzheimer’s just an extreme version of normal aging? And to what extent does...

Susie Hewer holds the Guinness World record for extreme knitting, and fundraises for Alzheimers after seeing how it...

Is there a better way to get over jet lag than just waiting 1 day per time zone to recover?

Professor Jonathan Flint has some fascinating early results from his team’s hunt for genes involved in major depression.

Schizophrenia affects around one in 100 people. Professor Mike Owen explains what we know about the genes involved.

Professor Cathryn Lewis is searching for genes involved in depression.

Evidence has been found that a father smoking as a child can affect his chiildren's levels of obesity

We look into why your central nervous system won't regenerate and how it might be possible to make it do so.

Up in the air: why flight drove evolution of insect olfaction

The Hawaiian bobtail squid and V. fischeri bacteria use a chemical conversation to establish a close working...