Interviews about Medicine

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

How does haemorrhage hurt?

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?

US researchers have pinpointed a region of the genetic code that can control the immune response to sepsis...

Immunologist Peter Openshaw weighs in on vaccine mixing and spacing the doses...

What's really going on when something smells fishy?

Using an old drug in a new way to combat sleeping sickness

How will Joe Biden approach the pandemic?

COVID has affects beyond the lungs...