Interviews about Medicine

And closing this month’s show, Professor Fred Gage from the Salk Institute California describes what's been...

We find out about a new treatment for addiction and posttraumatic stress disorder.

Finding out how someone with alcholism re-wrote the script in his brain to help beat addiction.

Professor John O'Keefe discusses how researchers are combining virtual reality and treadmills to map navigation in...

A new range of antibiotics are being developed to target the gene expression of bacteria...

'Liking' things on Facebook may give away more than you realise. A new study used 'likes' to...

We ask Matt Waldon how we tackle Cholera in the modern world and find out how the disease could have reached Haiti...

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..