Interviews about Medicine

We speak with a spider venom researcher to find out why venom is so useful...

As "smartphone pinky" goes viral on social media, are phones damaging our digits?

With Covid cases rising in the UK, should the government be moving forward with Plan B of restrictions?

We now know SARS-CoV-2 kills cells in the brain's blood vessels, which may be behind neurological symptoms

When high-risk research is being considered, who is responsible for giving it the go-ahead?

We look at the incidents when dangerous diseases have escaped the lab into the wide world...

Labs fall into four categories depending on how dangerous the disease being studied is.

What can we learn from making diseases more dangerous in the lab?

Would you fund research that could prevent a pandemic, but may accidentally cause one in the process?

Severe illness in unvaccinated pregnant women with COVID is causing alarm...

Some people are reporting changes to their period after receiving a COVID vaccine, what could be going on?

Evidence that Europeans brought new diseases to the Americas...

Rats rescue other rats when specific brain areas become active...

Monkeys fed a Western diet for 15 months behaved badly and showed signs of persistent inflammation...

Adverse life events are reflected in a temporary change to hair pigmentation, a new study reveals...

Signs that swabs from cell phones are almost as sensitive as testing the owner for Covid-19...

Bacteria in the gut producing testosterone-like chemicals can prevent prostate cancer treatment from working

This years winners for science with a tasty, spicy twist...

With great disparities in vaccination rates around the world, how can we distribute vaccines more effectively?

Millions of developing babies exposed to air pollution will be born prematurely or with a low birth weight

A study giving the flu and COVID jabs in one go is a success

Why some scientists are predicting a particularly bad cold and flu season this year

A new experiment has launched to study the effects of microgravity on female bodies

Could a person's genes be used to predict when their menopause will start?