Interviews about Medicine

How do we decide when someone is dead? Do we look at the heart or the brain, and do we need to redefine it?

Two-year-old Michelle Funk was trapped under the ice for over an hour without oxygen. She made a full recovery, but how...

Cryonics is the preservation of people at low temperatures, with the aim of resuscitating them in the future. So how...

Brain emulation is where you upload your brain to a computer and become immortal. But is this feasible and why...

We debate the consequences that an immortal population could could bring about...

Our gene of the month is unlikely to be mistaken for the mayor of London, despite being called Boris.

Intellectual property, or IP, is an important issue in food and agriculture. Dominic Berry explains some of the...

Mike Ambrose managed the Germplasm Resources Unit at the John Innes Centre in Norwich, preserving crop seeds for the...

Could a chocolate bar become the next health food?

Resurrection is a key symbol of Easter, but some plants can do it at any time of year, which could be key to a new...

Genetically modified chickens that are immune to bird flu could be a reality soon. Only one caveat: they're...

How to tell is your egg is boiled or not...

Your school textbook got it wrong, it is possible to "unboil" an egg, and the process could have big...

Scientists are using motion capture technology usually more at home on a Hollywood movie set to distinguish between...

Benford's law states that many sets of numbers are not randomly distributed. This phenomenon is used to catch...

Our memories are not like a video recorder, they are often unreliable and easily influenced. How does this affect an...

Testing for drugs and toxins in the body is vital to a solving whole host of crimes.

Forensic pathologists are tasked with determining how someone has died. How do they go about getting this information...

Everything at a crime scene could potentially be a piece of evidence. How do crime scene officers prevent...

Might depression be down to an abnormal immune response?

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, also known as ME, might be an autoimmune disease that impairs blood flow to nerves and...

How might the immune system cause psychotic conditions?

Leukaemias can be reprogrammed to turn cancerous B cells into healthy macrophages...

The process of recalling memories also involves actively forgetting things.