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Interviews with Scientists
Interviews about medicine, science, technology and engineering with scientists and researchers internationally...
Could new genetic editing technology provide a much needed treatment for sickle cell disease?
Could a bunch of computer programmers be the answer to the illegal wildlife trade?
How did the hospital become an integral part of society?
How do you train a student in all the skills required to be a fantastic doctor?
Infection is one of the biggest risks from a trip to the hospital, so how is it minimised?
As our health services face increasing demand could a new app help lessen the load?
It's time for our Gene of the Month, and this time it’s Pokémon - or rather, Zbtb7.
The latest tests promise to tell parents whether their kid is cut out for certain sports and activities. But are they...
Tony Gordon from Genesis Genetics talks about the ways in which he and his team can test embryos and fetuses for...
The genetic faults and variations that influence the risk of many types of cancer...
NICE has approved 'breakthrough' lung cancer drug osimertinib, which has twice the success rate of existing...
...and they're a thousand times thinner than a human hair.
...and it was done by hacking people's web cams.
Three Brits take the prize for their discoveries on abrupt changes in the properties, or phases, of ultra-thin...
...and it's nothing to do with a calcium deficiency.
How cells degrade and recycle their cellular various components is what won the Nobel in medicine this year.
It's the first time genes have been implicated in food preference.
There are more people quitting that ever before and that's partly thanks to e-cigs but could they also be bad for...
The ways that plants respond to drought can be changed
Modelling the effectiveness of bednets against mosquitoes and malaria...
The drug rapamycin increases life expectancy in middle-aged mice
Exploring the neuroscience of the cocktail party effect: why poor listeners pay less attention
Fragments of ancient proteins are preserved in ostrich eggshells...