Interviews with Scientists

Research is revealing that being overweight during pregnancy can leave a legacy of high blood pressure for generations.

Pollution is one of the leading causes of heart disease, but why does it impact us in this way?

How studying fish can help us to turbot-charge heart research...

Chris gets his heart checked out with a standard ECG test.

Heart development can provide important clues into how it works, and also what can go wrong.

What keeps your ticker pumping, and how does it supply all that blood to your body?

The BHF put 100 million into heart research every single year.

Opiod painkillers like morphine are extremely powerful, but new research shows that they could cause chronic pain.

Is it true that the naked mole-rat doesn't get cancer?

Bees can tell one flower from another just by electric fields that the flowers send out. But how do they do it?

Making concrete accounts for 5% of GLOBAL carbon emissions, so is there a better alternative?

Could all our homes be solar powered by 2050?

What’s being done NOW to build environmentally sympathetic homes?

New technology is all well and good, but in order to live truly sustainably do we need to change the way we live?

The UN estimates that by 2050 up to 70% of us will be living in cities. How can we make them more sustainable?

Why is there no Nobel Prize for Maths and what happens when you finally achieve your life's goal?

How do you age the earth's magnetic field? By recreating the centre of the earth.

And finally it’s time for our gene of the month, and this time it’s Armadillo.

Imagine all the kit you need to start your own molecular biology lab, packed down into the size of a laptop bag and...

Can films like the X-Men get people talking about genetics? Jon Roberts from the Sanger Institute is finding out.

As DNA sequencing becomes cheaper, having a good understanding of genetics will become more important. But what does...

It sounds counter-intuitive but conducting post-mortems can help save the lives of the living...

Microbes in the gut influence the social behaviour of mice

University students gain hands-on experience of a new DNA sequencing technology