Interviews with Scientists

Professor Hank Greely from Stanford Law School explores some of the ethical issues around genetic testing for...

Professor Marcus Munafo is trying to get to the bottom of another big question - how much of our personality is nature...

Dr David Sweatt is researching one of the most fundamental questions in brain research - how we make memories.

Jon Tennant explains how mass extinction events changed the face of Earth's biodiversity and answers questions...

Stephanie Pierce explains to a live audience at the Cambridge Science Centre how early life crawled out of the oceans...

Alex Liu explains what the fossil record tells us about how Earth's first animals developed from bacteria...

As we build at higher densities, architects are having to think more creatively about how to make the maximum use of...

One team changing how our homes might be built are DUS Architects in Amsterdam. They’re currently 3D printiting a whole...

Could we use bamboo in order to make housing across the world more environmentally friendly?

Breathing Buildings, are a Cambridge company who’ve come up with a way to much more efficiently ventilate our homes

Researchers in Switzerland have created the smallest magazine cover in the world - 2,000 of them could fit on a grain...

Scientists in Amsterdam have been looking at the blood of a 115 year old woman to see what her genes can tell us about...

Scientists have discovered that electricity from cochlear implants can be used to deliver gene therapy and improve...

Scientists from Cambridge have unveiled a way to model on a computer, how all of Earth’s different ecosystems, actually...

How sheep and mice are being used to study Huntington’s disease

How the gene for Huntington's disease was discovered

Mike Dragonow is able to culture stem cells that he gets from the brain bank. He grows the adult human brain cells to...

Richard price talks of his experiences of his wife and Huntington's disease

Hannah Critchlow is taken on a tour of a bank of frozen human brains which are helping to inform Huntington's...

Are there any better diagnostic tests, or biomarkers, that could help with early diagnosis of Alzheimer’s?

Why is diagnosis still so difficult? And why are the treatments currently on offer for Alzheimer’s so inadequate? We...

How are memories formed and lost? Is Alzheimer’s just an extreme version of normal aging? And to what extent does...

Susie Hewer holds the Guinness World record for extreme knitting, and fundraises for Alzheimers after seeing how it...

Is there a better way to get over jet lag than just waiting 1 day per time zone to recover?