Interviews about Medicine

How a bank of frozen human brains is acting as a reference library, how a Hindu resolves conflicting religious and...

How do children learn language and why is 'motherese', the sing song voice we speak to children in, important?

Why do some children's language skills progress more quickly than others? And could a child's background...

Are video games helping or halting our children's brains?

Could computers ever have the power to predict our emotions and change them? or even to read our minds?

UK Science Minister, David Willetts addresses the AAAS Meeting in Chicago, 2014

Should scientists resort to propaganda? How do governments decide what research is funded? Join the live panel...

Our gene of the month is Escargot, named after the French word for snail, but also known by the less exotic name...

An astonishing 7 million tons of food and drink is thrown out in the UK every year. We dig into this waste.

Refrigeration may be a bigger environmental issue than transporting food around the country...

We have to get our food from where it’s grown to where we buy it and to our houses. What can we do to try and reduce...

Examining Chris' shopping bag to find out the carbon footprint of his weekly shop.

At the University of Manchester, Professor Matthew Cobb and his team are studying how maggots smell things.

Scientists have analysed the genome of an 11,000 year old contagious dog genital cancer.

Researchers have carried out a small but successful trial of gene therapy for a type of blindness.

Stuart Firestein, Professor of Biology at Columbia University, explained to me how our sense of smell works, and why it...

The pathogen that causes corn smut in maize employs a sophisticated strategy to increase its virulence.

Researchers have worked out the structure of a protein complex that is involved in the destruction of T helper cells...

A rat will help another rat if it is familiar with that type of rat, even if it has not met the actual rat before.

About 1 in 100 in the UK has a peanut allergy. But this week, researchers announced a new technique to control the...

Nottingham University’s Cameron Alexander is developing a system to deliver and activate nanoparticles in specific...

We all know that exercise and a healthy diet is good for us, but is there anything that government can to help us...

What's the evidence for 5 portions of fruit and vegetables per day? And do 5 apples add up to the same health...

Exercise physiologist Dan Gordon explains how he pushes athletes to their limits and answers the audience's...