Interviews about Medicine

The science of cake baking...

Professor Martin Adams talks through how cheddar and stilton cheeses are made.

What are the risks of food? Are 'best before' dates actually useful?

Latest news from the Diamond Light Source...

New advances in preserving organs so that they are healthy for transplantation...

A round up the week's science news including the planting of vaccines, lie detection, elements at risk and...

Researchers in Cambridge have created mammalian stem cells that only contain a single set of chromosomes. Most...

Socialising to lose weight, polymers for probiotics, the never-ageing plant and picturing Moon landings...

Joe Jasinski explains the workings of the World Community Grid and this supercomputer hopes to benefit benefit...

Probiotics, the "friendly" bacteria, seem to have the potential to treat anxiety and depression related...

How dead dinosaurs fertilise forests, why mobile phones answer the call in emergencies, a DNA trip-switch for cancer...

Pharmacologist Professor Ruth Ross has successfully weeded out some promising chemicals from the marijuana plant...

We're often looking to nature for inspiration and novel ways to treat disease. But to take chemicals from the sea...

It’s 50 years this year since the drug thalidomide was withdrawn from sale after it was linked to birth defects but...

On the subject of limbs, and how they can go wrong...

It’s known that a deficiency or an excess of vitamin A, otherwise known as retinol, and its derivative retinoic acid...

Are all genes made equal? In other words, do the protein recipes that they encode all get turned out at the same rate...

Fungal infections can be deadly, but who would have guessed that yeasts have better directional sense than many humans...

Duchenne muscular dystrophy, or DMD, is a genetic condition in which sufferers lack the ability to produce dystrophin...

Simone Weyand discusses her new insight into the workings of antihistamines...

We find out why some people suffer pain from injuries that took place many years ago...

Looking for new ways to interfere with pain...

Paul Riley explains how stem cells in the adult heart can be triggered to produce new muscle cells when the heart is...

Hearing aids work on the general one-size-fits-all principle that if you are finding it hard to hear something you...