Interviews about Medicine

The spread of superbugs from big city to small town, new drug target to treat Tinnitus, New insight into lunar...

Some unusual neurological findings at post mortem suggest a mechanism which causes the symptom of pain in chronic...

Professor Julia Newton has been looking at muscle cells from patients with chronic fatigue syndrome, to see if a...

Dr. Esther Crawley explains what chronic fatigue syndrome is, who gets it, the genetic component of chronic fatigue...

This week, scientists at Cambridge University have identified a signal that controls the activity of brown fat – that...

A new test to predict the pathology of a virus, ice sheet instability in Antarctica, the rewarding feeling of talking...

A story that starts with 9,000 placentas floating in plastic buckets of formaldehyde...

Researchers in America have looked at about 600 families who’ve got people with autism in the family, and they found...

Dr Tanya Whitfield and her team at the University of Sheffield are using a rather different model - stripey little...

Now they’ve sequenced the human genome, they’re trying to move on to sequencing all the bugs in our gut...

Another story that I noticed involving dogs and their diseases is about epilepsy. And actually a quite number of...

This is about dogs and Epstein-Barr virus, which is type of virus that can cause some types of cancer. And it can also...

One of the biggest genetics stories this month came from the world of cancer research. Writing in the New England...

It's not only food that we get from the oceans. Marine species from corals and sea squirts, right down to the...

Cancer cells can develop resistance to radiotherapy, which means large doses have to be given which can damage nearby...

Cancer cells may escape attack by the body's immune system by releasing chemicals to suppress it, but we may be...

This week, researchers homed in on the areas of the pigeon brain responsible for detecting magnetic fields...

Clare Woulds explains how the existence of life is explored deep down in the Earth's hydrothermal vents...

Imaging human tissue in 3 dimensions, a potential drug to treat autism, how wind turbines are affecting local...

How does the brain keep track of time?

Our lives are becoming increasingly 24/7 - around 1 in 5 adults works non-standard time, so not the 9 to 5; we...

Amphibian species around the world are subject to an increasing threat in the form of a fungus. Over 200 amphibian...

Circadian rhythms are clearly important for staying fit, both in terms of good health and of survival of the fittest....

Water sources below Africa, potential anti-cancer effects of Aspirin, a new polymer for cheaper solar cells and how...