Interviews about Medicine

Epigenetics may have ramifications for other areas of science, including stem cell research and treatments. Ryan Lister...

Epigenetics provides new insights for the treatment of malignancy...

A genetic trigger that can cause heart muscle cells to start dividing to produce new cells...

Our gene of the month is all arty - it’s Van Gogh. A gene found in fruit flies, Van Gogh was first discovered in 1998...

Now it's time to delve a bit deeper into cancer genomes. At the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Dr Peter Campbell...

At its heart, cancer is a disease caused by faulty and damaged genes. It’s usually a combination of the damage we pick...

A novel printing technique can print replacement cartilage in 3d...

How do E. coli kill off their siblings in an overpopulated and underresourced world? ISIS shows us how...

How a dose of the right DNA can dampen a seizure...

This week, the journal Lancet Infectious Diseases included a rather unusual detective story – one where rapid DNA...

Bed bug infestations are on the rise. Although UK has been relatively clear of them for the last 50 years, we are now...

A major news story in the UK this month has been the discovery of Ash dieback disease, a fungal infection that destroys...

cases of bed bug infestations we’ve heard are on the rise, but how do you know you’ve actually got them and what can...

Dr Matt Holden at the Sanger Institute in Cambridge reveals how advances in genome sequencing are helping researchers...

Tiny bacteria living in stinky mud can gang up to create tiny electrical nanowires.

Researchers have found that a person's genes may affect how likely they are to respond to the placebo effect.

Bacterial infections cause millions of deaths around the world every year. But countless more aren’t fatal yet cause...

Cancer spread causes 9 out of 10 cancer deaths. We’re joined by Dr. Joan Masague who is trying to understand how...

Cows milk is a remarkable food – not only for drinking, but for cheese and butter, yoghurt and cream. So when did we...

Is breast cancer screening beneficial? A paper in the Lancet this week examines the pros and cons...

Most deaths from cancer occur when the disease spreads – or metastasises - to other parts of the body. But we know very...

Current cancer therapies often involve using drugs that are toxic to rapidly growing cells and this inevitably means...

One of the key problems in the treatment of cancer is that tumours, having initially responded very nicely to a course...