Interviews about Medicine

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

17 April 2012

Submarines, manned or unmanned have been vital in learning about the deep sea as well as playing an essential role as...

13 April 2012

How memories can be re-written to prevent drug relapse, the effects of social rank on gene expression and health, how...

26 March 2012

Researchers in the Scripps Translational Science Institute in California have developed a blood test that may be...

20 March 2012

A new drug target for baldness, searching for early human settlements from space, a new way to fight altitude sickness...

20 March 2012

Ed Farnell discusses how the parasitic Schistosoma worm cleverly coats itself with your blood to hide from your immune...

20 March 2012

Geoff Smith explains how some viruses are able to spread faster than they should to cover more ground, and infect more...

20 March 2012

Full genome sequencing of bacteria could allow researchers and medics to better treat diseases like MRSA, and better...

19 March 2012

Scientists reveal how the intestine distinguishes harmless food items from potentially harmful bacteria or parasites...

11 March 2012

Invasive plant species on the Western Antarctic Peninsula, virtual models of the human body, carbon clues to help ants...

04 March 2012

Social Scientist Paul Piff reveals the modern day tale of George Orwell's Animal Farm....

04 March 2012

A new drug target to fight memory loss in Alzheimers, the genome of Otzi the iceman, gender selection in pygmy hippos...

26 February 2012

It’s well known that what you eat, drink or smoke during pregnancy can have long term consequences on the developing...

26 February 2012

Hear how meat is being made in the lab using stem cells, the flaws identified which could mean those neutrinos weren...

19 February 2012

Detecting viruses with sensors, how flies fight parasites with alcohol, delivering drugs on a chip and one of the World...

12 February 2012

Can we trick the immune system into attacking cancer cells by disguising them as bacteria? New research suggests that...

12 February 2012

A new project launched in London this week ahead of the 2012 Olympics to get school children across the country...

05 February 2012

The eating habits we develop early in life can be very hard to change. Marion Hetherington discusses why this is and...

05 February 2012

Could diet foods be making you fat? We investigate whether low calorie foods such as sweeteners and low fat...

05 February 2012

How scientists are eavesdropping using electrodes, predicting eruptions using magma, healing wounds with honey and...

05 February 2012

We explore how chemists at the University of Bristol are finding new molecules to monitor and treat diabetes...

29 January 2012

How mapping a mushroom trip could provide treatments for depression, the gene behind a winning racehorse, the world...

23 January 2012

The latest discoveries at Diamond...

22 January 2012

Introducing Vitamin D: how deficient are we? And what disorders are linked with deficiency?

22 January 2012

How is Vitamin D linked to autoimmunity and the central nervous system? With us to discuss the research is Prof....