Interviews about Medicine

Viruses called phages which can attack the Clostridium difficile - C. diff - bacterium are being developed by...

How many brain cells does it contain? How heavy is it? And how does it work? We take a quick fire science tour round...

Oxford researcher Rafael Wlodarski has been quizzing people about their kissing habits and what it actually means to...

Who are our brains for this programme? Plus we find out their burning neuroscience questions.

Cells undergoing programmed cell death release signals that trigger apoptosis in distant cells.

Mice growing in an environment with lots of stimuli are less social and more territorial than mice that grow up in more...

How are organisms such as planarians able to grow new heads and tails?

Our gene of the month is for all you hopeless romantics out there - it's Lonely Heart

Researchers in Finland have found a new gene faults involved in dog dwarfism, which might be important in humans too.

Researchers at The Institute of Cancer Research have found that 'sister' stem cells are much more different...

Researchers on the US The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) project have released new data revealing genetic similarities...

Footballer Fabrice Muamba made headlines when his heart stopped on the pitch. Prof Hugh Watkins wants to know why this...

Although lifestyle factors are important, our genes play an important role in our risk of heart disease. Prof Aroon...

Virologist Margaret Stanley explains how they developed the HPV vaccine to lower the rates of cervical cancers...

A Chinese man looks like he has a nose growing on his forehead after surgeons worked to replace his nose damaged in an...

How does disturbing our sleep patterns by working shifts affect us?

How can we probe what’s going on in the brain of someone who has a sleep disorder? Jason Rihel uses zebrafish to learn...

One serious sleep disorder is narcolepsy; sufferers regularly fall asleep because they can’t regulate their sleep...

Some animals spend over 80% of their lives asleep. But why? What’s the purpose of sleep and why does it become a...

Researchers at the Universities of Aberystwyth and Cambridge have discovered a marine animal that has a tidal clock as...

When a team set out to map the UK's happiness they didn't expect that users would report their mood improving...

The parasite toxoplasma stops mice being afraid of cats, but what happens when the parasite is removed?

Are emotions a key part of what defines us as individuals, and subjective and conscious beings? And if so, could...

Kevin Warwick, Cybernetics Professor at Reading University has delved deep into his nervous system to become one of the...