Interviews about Medicine

Blood is in high demand. Wouldn't it be great if we could grow blood to order?

A new technique to convert any blood group into a form compatible with all other blood groups is being developed by...

When we donate blood, what are we actually giving away and how?

Before we started transfusion, we had rather a different approach to blood based treatment...

How a new DNA sequencer, in a tent, in Sierra Leone could be crucial to cutting ebola transmission chains...

Is sitting down at work harming your health?

How your health history could literally go viral, as researchers announce a test to uncover every virus that ever...

What does science sound like? Sonification can turn data measurements, from experiments like CERN's, into music...

Individuals who don't feel pain have led scientists to a pain-sensing gene, which may lead to new analgesic...

New portable monitoring devices, that plug into your smartphone, could help doctors diagnose anything from diabetes to...

Sound waves may be key to creating the perfect cheese, new research from Australia reveals...

Opinions on whether babies can feel pain have been divided but new research suggests they might be able to...

How do slithering snakes swallow prey so much bigger than their own heads?

Why can some birds use tools?

To understand the underground moles have developed super sensitive faces...

Researchers have discovered a neural code for food abundance

More than 2000 students have helped shed new light on the genomics of bacteriophages

Functional MRI suggests that infants and adults experience pain in very similar ways

How thousands of years of selective breeding have turned teosinte into maize...

Three billion journeys are made by air every year. Are these passengers cruising for an infectious bruising?

Nearly 100% of respondents said they wanted to know what genetic risks might be lurking in their genomes...

Balls of tumour tissue grown from a patient's cancer cane be used to optimise and personalise tumour treatments...

Our gene of the month may be small, but it's surprisingly important.

As we head towards the summer, we've got some news that might be useful if you're heading off on vacation...