Interviews about Medicine

You could be forgiven for thinking that microbes are not, and should not be, a conservation priority. But that’s not...

A cocktail of git bugs can successfully see off Clostridium difficile, the potentially fatal and often hospital...

When Shakespeare coined the phrase "the world is your oyster", he meant that everything was up for grabs -...

Almost every species studied has its own unique species of parasite – so with every extinction we’re losing at least...

How do we hear? How does the ear convert sound waves into messages to be interpretted by the brain and what goes wrong...

What is a hearing aid and how does it work? What are the issues involved in designing them? We spoke to a hearing aid...

How do we tell where a sound is coming from and what issues do hearing-impaired listeners have with finding the source...

Mobile phone data tracks malaria as it moves with humans; Spirals of dust help understand evolution of stars; A new...

Tinnitus is the experience of sound in the absence of any real noise and it’s estimated to affect 1 person in 5 and can...

How you perceive taste is a very intricate and complicated relationship...

How does synaesthesia work? What causes it? Is there any agreement on what colour 'A' and are the...

A new diagnostic tests for new-born babies has been developed. In under 50 hours, it can comb a newborn's entire...

The placebo effect is a reported improvement in a patient’s condition in response to their own expectation that a drug...

How to rejuvenate the flavour of tired chewing gum, and how the food industry enhances taste.

Understanding age and age related diseases involves research at every level – from populations through individuals,...

Over time, nerve cells or neurons can become damaged and either die or lose their connections to their neighbours. A...

Even with normal healthy ageing, we expect to see a decline in our cognitive functions over time. The Cambridge Centre...

Catheters bugs can't colonise, and element 113 is discovered...

In this week's NewsFlash, we find a new, neurological cause for overeating, a fast and cheap paper-based test for...

Facebook. Nearly a billion of us use it, but does it affect how we make important decisions? James Fowler at the...

Diet in pregnancy affects cancer risk for the women, their daughters, and their granddaughters...

While some of The Naked Scientists were in Aberdeen for the British Science Association’s Science Festival, another...

Researchers have found that older fathers tend to pass on more mutations to their children, which might increase the...

We've already heard how epigenetic marks tell cells which genes to use, creating different types of tissue. But is...