Interviews about Medicine

Medical Historian Richard Barnett tells the story of the epidemiologist John Snow and asks whether we've...

PhD student Ankur Mutreja discusses his work; sequencing the genome of cholera bacteria in order to track the 7th...

A new scientific theory suggests that a knock to the head, could cause not just trauma but an immune system response...

We speak to 'enviromental entrepreneur' Jason Drew about his plan to close loops in the food chain by feeding...

We speak to Tim Benton, the UK champion for food security, to find out why we should be hungry to secure our food...

Sherlock star Benedict Cumberbatch talks to Naked Scientist Ben Valsler about his role as guest director of the...

US researchers have discovered that a pseudogene might be involved in controlling an important cancer gene

Scientists have discovered that the X-chromosome inactivation gene Xist may be involved in cancer

Now it’s time to turn to the genetics of another developmental disorder - Specific Language Impairment, or SLI.

We’re all becoming more aware of autism and related disorders such as Asperger’s syndrome.

A new screening method for potential drugs to fight parasites has been developed using yeast to help identify effective...

Eighty million trees in Britain are at risk of dying from ash dieback – a fungal disease that’s gradually spreading...

It's been an unusual few weeks in astronomy - not only have we had a close fly-by of Asteroid DA14, but also a...

We find out what keeps Professor Cori Bargmann up all night.

We navigate our way around a fruit flies brain to find out exactly how pheromones switch females onto copulation mode.

Divorce rates are on the up. Does love need a helping hand? Should science interfere? We explore this issue with...

Wendy Barclay discusses the new evidence that Coronavirus can spread from person to person..

Is love just a chemical reaction? We find out what goes on in your brain when you fall in love

How do male and female brains differ? Investigating fruit flies has given us an insight into the neural circuits that...

What happens in our brains during long term love and how do we react when heartbroken?

Joan Steitz at Yale University has worked on RNA for more than three decades, and specialises in the small RNAs...

Susan Gottesman from the Centre for Cancer Research in Bethesda, Maryland, is an expert on bacterial RNAs.

A "housekeeping" process inside cells, known as autophagy, could hold the key to blocking HIV and even...

Understanding how the immune system sees cancer could help us find new ways to treat or prevent the disease...