Interviews about Medicine

The Tour de France is an annual cycle race which takes place in July throughout France and its surrounding countries....

Andrea Peron takes us on a tour along stage 9 explaining the speeds reached, points to be won and the affects of such...

We meet a mix of fans and cyclists who travel from all over the world to see their cycling heroes in action...

Fergal Grace explains how a well timed and well controlled diet can provide the energy for endurance...

Nutritionists Matt Rabin and Mark Qod explain how our diets can not only give us the energy we need for endurance, but...

We meet sprint cyclist Tyler Farrar to find out how he puts the technology, nutrition, and fitness together to try and...

As well as mending broken bikes, the cyclists may need broken bones mended, which is when team medic, Shannon Sovndal,...

Cyclists on the Tour de France cover between 150 and 200 kilometres every day, for three weeks, with only two rest days...

A vaginal gel containing the anti-AIDS drug tenofovir halves transmission rates of HIV amongst women...

In the wild, a gene that produces an organism’s chances of surviving increases their odds of reproducing. It’s usually...

We explore photodynamic therapy and photochemical internalisation - cancer treatments involving lasers...

A few weeks ago on the Naked Scientists, we heard how a highly focused laser beam can be used as if it were a pair of...

Also in the news this week, researchers at Yale University in America have come one step closer to building a...

Researchers in Seattle have found that the spiral shape of the bacterium Helicobacter pylori is key to its ability to...

This week the J Craig Venter Institute announced the creation to huge fanfare of a brand new synthetic microorganism...

An iconic animal, the Tasmanian Devil is under threat from a type of cancer that can be transmitted between individuals...

Human Papillomavirus or HPV is the main cause of the majority of cases of cervical cancer. Professor Margaret Stanley...

Cervical screening helps to catch cancers before they become a problem, but what actually happens to a sample after it’...

The Lancet has published a study into the benefits of looking at your genome to help personalise your medicine. Dr....

Helen Donoghue explains how analysing bacteria from ancient fossils can help us learn more about the evolution of...

Researchers in California have shown how a new drug, called iRGD, can help to fight tumours by boosting levels of...

Researchers have overturned a 100-year-old misunderstanding about how the arteries that supply the heart with blood...

Leila Luheshi explains how a binding protein could be used to prevent the build up of the toxic proteins that cause...

The human population is estimated to be about 6.8 billion right now, and it’s set to grow to over 9 billion by 2040....