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Interviews about Medicine
Interviews about medicine, physiology, pathology, bacteria and viruses, pharmacology, food, hormones, neuroscience and psychology...
14 February 2013
Is love just a chemical reaction? We find out what goes on in your brain when you fall in love
14 February 2013
How do male and female brains differ? Investigating fruit flies has given us an insight into the neural circuits that...
14 February 2013
What happens in our brains during long term love and how do we react when heartbroken?
07 February 2013
Joan Steitz at Yale University has worked on RNA for more than three decades, and specialises in the small RNAs...
07 February 2013
Susan Gottesman from the Centre for Cancer Research in Bethesda, Maryland, is an expert on bacterial RNAs.
31 January 2013
A "housekeeping" process inside cells, known as autophagy, could hold the key to blocking HIV and even...
31 January 2013
Understanding how the immune system sees cancer could help us find new ways to treat or prevent the disease...
29 January 2013
We close with the enigma of integration, with Professor Sir John Gurdon from Cambridge University.
28 January 2013
A new technique transforms hair-producing cells from the scalp into networks of nerve cells that can be used to study...
28 January 2013
Can we stimulate new nerve cells to form in our brains, or are we stuck with the number that we are born with? We...
23 January 2013
An Oxford Don is up all night marvelling over the fact that brain and behaviour is a two way street...
23 January 2013
The Naked Scientists don’t just sit in the buff in the studio interviewing scientists. Oh no! We also get dressed and...
23 January 2013
We discuss the ethical and social implications of 'Smart Drugs'
23 January 2013
Scientists scrutinise the brain in an attempt to get to the bottom of stereotypical adolescent behaviours...
20 January 2013
What is it like to take part in clinical research?
20 January 2013
The mood symptoms of Parkinson's Disease...
20 January 2013
What is Parkinson's like for patients?
20 January 2013
How stem cell technology is teaching us about Parkinson's...
20 January 2013
Kick-starting the programme, I went in search of answers about Parkinson's disease. First up, I wanted to get...
14 January 2013
At least some aspect of our body mass index is encoded in our genes...
18 December 2012
This week, scientists have uncovered residues of 7,000-year-old cheese. Chemist Professor Richard Evershed from the...
14 December 2012
What areas of neuroscience get a professor excited?
14 December 2012
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14 December 2012
Insights into a common mental health disorder...