Interviews about Medicine

Interviews about medicine, physiology, pathology, bacteria and viruses, pharmacology, food, hormones, neuroscience and psychology...

09 September 2012

How can we avoid the temptation of an unhealthy snack at the end of a long day? Julia Allan explains some new...

09 September 2012

Can we tailor our diets to keep us fuller for longer, eat less and lose weight? Alexandra Johnstone tells us how...

09 September 2012

Children who struggle to learn to read can be helped by a new interactive programme, "Moved By Reading." Art...

09 September 2012

Low-level exposure to chemicals that are the byproduct of industrial and household processes could be damaging our...

07 September 2012

Slowing down time to make your move, rediced rainfall from deforestation, Visualising the potency of drug candidates...

07 September 2012

Slowing down time to make your move, rediced rainfall from deforestation, Visualising the potency of drug candidates...

12 August 2012

Scientists have come up with a way to use pulses of electricity to stop certain forms of epileptic seizure...

09 August 2012

our gene of the month may be familiar to any Star Trek fans who are listening - it’s none other than Tribbles.

09 August 2012

Researchers have found melanoma for the first time in a fish population. This is a wild fish population off the...

09 August 2012

The other story that I noticed this month was from Emma Juuri and her team at the Institute of Biotechnology in...

09 August 2012

One big area where sequencing technology has made an impact is in our understanding of the genetic faults and...

05 August 2012

An Alzheimer's protein relieves paralysis in MS, the mechanism behind sex discrepancy in life expectancy, cuckoos...

05 August 2012

Schistosomiasis, also known as bilharzia is a parasitic disease that infects more than 200 million people. Adults...

31 July 2012

When your mind gets stage fright, things can go horribly wrong. Thankfully, sport psychologists are on hand to help as...

31 July 2012

Kingston University’s exercise physiologist Chris Easton puts Naked Scientist Meera Senthilingam through her paces......

31 July 2012

How is scientific insight applied to improve the performance of team GB? We meet one of the scientists applying...

31 July 2012

We’re investigating what it takes to become an elite athlete. As important as innate talent is, it’s not enough to make...

31 July 2012

What does it take to win Olympic gold? The right genetics, training, attitude, and technology all combine in an elite...

16 July 2012

Antibiotics and vaccines save lives, but to do so, they usually need to be kept cold and this could be a bitter pill to...

13 July 2012

How proteins could help clear away Huntington's disease...

10 July 2012

At the University of Reading, Dr Tiffany Taylor and her colleagues are busy manipulating bacteria and putting them...

10 July 2012

This is from Marco Bortolato at the University of Southern California and this is looking at the genetics of rage.

01 July 2012

One of the things we have to think about when we gather a large number of people into a small space, such as the...

01 July 2012

Every large building has an evacuation procedure. Most offices and schools have regular fire drills but this isn’t an...