Interviews about Medicine

Nutrition plays a key role in physical fitness. But can it really help us run faster or jump higher?

Could the immune system cause schizophrenia in some cases? Antibodies targeting certain nerve cells are present in some...

Avatars allow schizophrenia patients to confront the voices they hear, allowing them to regain control over them.

What can ketamine reveal about what causes schizophrenia?

An intelligent surgical device can chemically analyse tissue to distinguish between healthy and cancerous cells...

How does the immune system detect form pathogens - virus and bacteria - at the molecular level?

The UK government has given the green light to 3-person IVF. We take a look at the technology and implications.

The US Supreme Court has ruled that Myriad Genetics can't keep their BRCA gene patents. What are the implications?

Why do tumours become resistant to chemotherapy? New modelling research reveals ways to stop this from happening...

We find out how to scaffold a miniature breast in a dish, and what it can tell us.

And closing this month’s show, Dr Karen Ersche describes her new finding, and how it keeps her motivated to continue...

What is it like to live with addiction? Toby Peters talks about creativity helping with addiction recovery.

We’ve all seen headlines about addiction, whether it be to the internet, food, or drugs of abuse. We get a scientists...

There are at least two places in the body where blood vessels are discouraged from growing and both are in the eye -...

Tom Bruns explains why some mushrooms are poisonous and how one mushroom toxin is helping us understand RNA...

Author Nicholas Evans accidentally ate the poisonous deadly webcap mushroom, destroying his kidneys. He explains what...

How did multicellular life evolve? Ancient ancestors of ours, the choanoflagellates, might give us a clue...

Scientists have identified the bug that caused the Irish potato famine...

Scientists are working out how Hep B and Hep D are entering liver cells, research that could help up to a third of the...

What happens when you drive in fog? Often low visibility is blamed for accidents in these conditions, but how fast are...

How did our cells come by their nucleosomes? They help pack DNA tightly inside our cell nuclei and control when genes...

Heather Lunt tells us how the human body shuts down when immersed in extremely cold water...

How does 'lung packing' help professional freedivers prepare for the low oxygen and high pressure enviroment...

Intensive care units are looking to mountaineers to learn how to improve oxygen uptake in their patients.