Interviews about Medicine

Interviews about medicine, physiology, pathology, bacteria and viruses, pharmacology, food, hormones, neuroscience and psychology...

18 May 2015

Functional MRI suggests that infants and adults experience pain in very similar ways

14 May 2015

How thousands of years of selective breeding have turned teosinte into maize...

11 May 2015

Three billion journeys are made by air every year. Are these passengers cruising for an infectious bruising?

11 May 2015

Nearly 100% of respondents said they wanted to know what genetic risks might be lurking in their genomes...

11 May 2015

Balls of tumour tissue grown from a patient's cancer cane be used to optimise and personalise tumour treatments...

10 May 2015

Our gene of the month may be small, but it's surprisingly important.

10 May 2015

As we head towards the summer, we've got some news that might be useful if you're heading off on vacation...

10 May 2015

This month I’m reporting back from the Genetics Society Spring meeting, Breeding for bacon, biofuels and beer, with...

04 May 2015

Millions of people live close to volcanoes, but what danger are they in, and are there any long term health effects...

27 April 2015

The panelists talk about their favourite games, whether games can change your brain, and the dawn of eSports.

27 April 2015

Can technology from video games be used outside the entertainment industry?

27 April 2015

Can video games boost your brain power, and do they have a place in the classroom?

27 April 2015

From the Apple Watch to contact lenses that can check up on you, find out about what's next for wearable...

27 April 2015

Your body clock uses colour to determine the time of day, which may even explain how colour vision evolved in the...

27 April 2015

Research has shown bees are more likely to revisit flowers containing insecticides, despite not being able to taste...

27 April 2015

Two drugs that can help the brain to repair damage caused by multiple sclerosis have been uncovered by a new...

21 April 2015

After a quick sniff women were able to tell if sweat had come from a happy man or not...

17 April 2015

Why first impressions last: the brain circuits that control how a rat responds to a newcomer...

17 April 2015

Why we need to learn more about the natural history of model organisms...

17 April 2015

Where there's beer, there's bacteria! Molecular forensics cna be used to follow bugs around breweries to...

17 April 2015

What can experiments on flies teach us about traumatic brain injuries?

17 April 2015

Researchers have made a breakthrough in the search for a herpes simplex virus vaccine.

14 April 2015

Running a marathon anytime soon? The length of your fingers could predict how fast you'll be able to complete it...

14 April 2015

The Dutch are the tallest nation in the world, having grown a 20cm in the last 200 years. How did they reach such...