Interviews about Medicine

Over 1 billion Euros invested to try to simulate the human brain on a supercomputer. We meet the man in charge of the...

Meet the person responsible for putting neuroscience research on the American political agenda.

With cancer diagnosis and treatments improving, more and more people are surviving cancer. We explore the mental scars...

New treatments can selectively target genetic vulnerabilities in cancer cells but leave healthy tissues intact...

Hunting down cancer by looking at the blood. How close is a simple blood test for cancer?

Some quick fire facts and busting common misconceptions about cancer...

A strain of bowel bacteria controlled by your DNA may hold the answer to why some stay slim whilst others gain...

Researchers say that doing anti-social shifts over many years can dent your brain power. But is it reversible?

Our gene of the month is BRAF. It may not have a funny name but it's led to new targeted therapies for melanoma...

Are advances in genomic medicine transforming treatment for breast cancer, or is it more hype than reality?

John Hammond is investigating the genetics behind a cancer that is affecting wild sealions on the California coast.

Genetic research is pointing towards combination treatments as the way forward for effectively curing cancer in the...

Elaine Mardis explains how advances in cancer genetics are changing our understanding and treatment for cancer.

HIV-1 DNA could be a biomarker for disease progression.

The role of cannabis-detecting receptors in brain development is becoming clearer.

How do we know when we have eaten too much?

Researchers are exploring new ways to assess the risks posed to humans by non-human influenza viruses.

Magic tricks amaze and intrigue us, but the psychology behind these illusions is just as fascinating...

David Spiegelhalter discusses why seemingly unlikely events occur all the time- although not often to him!

We examine the science behind out-of-body experiences, and even induce one in an unsuspecting audience member!

Tales from a scientist investigating haunted houses, ghostly recordings and self-proclaimed psychics...

Jackie Akhavan works on how to best detect explosives, which she does by manufacturing bombs in the lab!

Sniffer dogs are used to detect drugs but how good are they? Can they sniff out all drugs? Or just a select few? And...

A technique using a light detects drugs that have been dissolved in liquids, a way crafty criminals attempt to smuggle...