Researchers have used stem cells to make neural implants more refined and with less scar...
Interviews about Medicine
Interviews about medicine, physiology, pathology, bacteria and viruses, pharmacology, food, hormones, neuroscience and psychology...
The WHO team dispatched to China, to investigate the origins of the pandemic, have published their results...
Researchers in Scotland find problems - unsurprisingly - where alcohol is involved...
Evidence that there are important genes in COVID that are being ignored in the literature
With the UK making plans to reopen schools on 8th March, scientists have tried to predict the consequences...
What's the best way to deal with being bored?
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What boredom neuroscience exists out there?
How does boredom relate to depression?
We hear from an art historian on boredom during lockdown...
What happens to people who go into space?
Do we need vaccine passports, and when might things be getting back to normal...
A tried and true method for making vaccines has been used to make some of the COVID vaccines
Current trials include mixing and matching difference vaccines, and looking at the vaccines in novel groups
Using coronavirus mRNA to make a vaccine
What is a COVID variant, and how could they affect COVID vaccines?
Explaining the method of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine
What does "efficacy" actually mean and how is it calculated from trial data?
Explaining the principles of vaccination
New data from around the UK could help us catch more cases
Is George Church's DIY vaccine a good idea? Bioethicist Arthur Caplan disagrees...
Geneticist George Church took a COVID vaccine back in May. Has it succeeded?
Self-experimentation still happens today - and biohackers like Josiah Zayner are pushing its limits...
Throughout recorded history, scientists have made themselves their own test subjects. How - and why?