Interviews about Medicine

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

It’s not only the athletes taking part in London 2012 who are feeling under pressure at the moment. What about their...

On a farm in Berkshire, not far from Reading, you’ll find a rather unusual looking campsite. Here special "tents...

How can mathematical modeling make better buildings? Meera Senthilingham visited the newly refurbished Kings Cross...

We discover a diagnostics development unit resembling that of a star-trek sick bay to monitor many aspects of your body...

We discover a new chemical technique to find fingerprints in places that weren't possible before....

How smoking fathers risk passing on damaged DNA to their children, Magnetic tornadoes heating up the surface of the Sun...

Are you a leader or are you a follower? An intriguing new study shows how you can identify influential people from...

How just 5 mutations could create a transmissable form of H5N1, the 50,000 megapixel camera providing insight never...

How music can make children more empathetic, the electrical charge of cracked materials, the slow extinction of the...

We discuss how rainfall can be used to map regions affected by seasonal Malaria to improve drug treatment programmes...

A protein in milk to keep obesity at bay, 'smart' water pumps to improve water availability, a digital...

And finally, our gene of the month is the hollow-sounding Tinman, whimsically named after the character in the Wizard...

This is a story led by Hiroaki Matsunami in the US and published in PLoS ONE about the genetics of why some people like...

There's some research published in PLoS Genetics this month from researchers up Edinburgh led by Lee Smith that...

They've looked at the mummy of a 16th century Korean child and manage to not only extract preserved organ tissue...

The first story that has caught my attention is a double in Cell led by two groups, the first by Evan Eichler and the...

As we heard earlier, some researchers are using mouse models to unravel the biological mysteries underlying...

Down’s Syndrome is a genetic disease caused by inheriting an extra copy of human chromosome 21. As well as leading to a...

We visit the Chelsea Flower Show in London where Microbiologist Rachel Roberts discussed her work looking at ways to...

Aberystwyth University scientist Jamie Newbold discusses how changes to farming practices can alter the microbes inside...

Surprising as it sounds, the majority of antibiotic drugs actually come from microbes themselves, particularly...

Professor Harry Klee discusses the cocktail of chemicals that constitute a much more flavoursome fruit of a tomato..!

Imagine not being able to just pick up a glass and have a drink, and instead, having to rely on others to help with...