Interviews about Medicine

Australian researchers - Rob Warren and Barry Marshall - won the Nobel Prize for their discovery in the 1980s of the...

Harnessing bacteria often involves growing them in large tanks called fermenters or bioreactors; but how do you make...

UK scientists have made big step forward in the field of organ transplantation. King’s College researcher Robert...

Food allergies are relatively common – figures from the US suggest that up to 8% of young children and 3.7% of adults...

Allergic conditions were virtually unheard of before the 19th century, and this has led some people to suggest that...

Using lasers and over 100,000 hours of computing time, researchers have exposed the previously unknown molecular shape...

If you’ve been shopping for a fish supper lately you’ve almost certainly been offered both farmed and wild fish. Fish...

Aquaculture isn’t restricted to the oceans – many aquatic organisms can actually be farmed on land. This is...

A new study sheds more light on how the brain responds to its first ever whiff of nicotine. By looking at activity in...

What happens if someone loses a body part? Can an artificial replacement be wired back up to the brain so it can be...

If you're using electrical activity in your brain to control a prosthetic or a wheelchair, you don't want it...

Electrodes detect facial muscle movements and translate them into speech...

Doctors are reporting significant success in treating OCD by using deep brain stimulation, which is carried out by...

Over 90% of Throat and Mouth cancers contain the genetic signature of the Human Papilloma Virus. Scientists think that...

New insights into protein shape may provide novel treatments for serious diseases of the circulatory system, including...

Scientists solve the structure of a protein pivotal for repairing damaged DNA. Due to various factors such as UV in...

An important group of diseases are those that occur when a person inherits a defective form of an essential gene....

Tim Cox explains how Gene therapy may help in the treatment of in-born errors of metabolism where part of a biochemical...

In a landmark breakthrough this week, Japanese scientists have used stem cells to grow a new retina in a dish, which...

In last year’s general elections, we had the exciting spectacle of a leaders debate, and to help us get an idea of how...

With mobile communications playing an increasingly major part in our lives, many people are worried about the potential...

Melanoma is a form of skin cancer that's becoming increasingly common; in fact, the incidence of the disease has...

We are looking at life that flourishes in the absence of input from the Sun, in other words, some of the most...

Also this week, a pair of papers in the journal Nature have shed some light on how human sperm cells react to the...