Interviews with Scientists

Bacteria can produce spores, natural packages which last for hundreds of years. Can we use these to keep drugs on the...

Had bad day? Think twice about posting a miserable status update on social media, because you might be bringing all...

Koalas hug the trunks of Eucalyptus trees very tightly. But not just to hang on. Scientists have now found that they...

And finally it’s time for our gene of the month, and this time we’re venturing into the garden with a gene called...

Jacob Giehm Mikkelsen and his team at Aarhus university in Denmark have found a way to use a modified version of HIV to...

Professor Jane Davies, at Imperial College London, is involved in a major UK trial of gene therapy for cystic fibrosis.

At UCL, Professor James Bainbridge is developing gene therapy approaches for treating sight loss. I asked him about the...

Foetal nerve grafts persist in Parkinson's patients for decades...

Could sleep help you boost your learning power? Nerve cells in the brains of mice grow new connections as they sleep....

What exactly is going on in the teenage brain? We uncover the risky, moody behaviour associated with the adolescent...

Can computer games boost memory? Are there tricks to help people with ADHD or dyslexia? And what does anxiety do to...

How do children learn about physics and scientific reasoning? And do those with autism learn about the world in a...

How do we learn new words? Can babies learn language from inside the womb? At what age can we first understand grammar?

Richard O'Connor hides toys from tots to explore how babies' brains develop learning and memory skills...

How genetics are used to screen embryo's for disease, could couples create designer babies, and should the...

With more and more people getting their DNA sequenced, Yaniv Erlich from MIT discusses how to keep the data private.

How do developing countries gain access to treatments? And why do drugs cost so much in the first place?

In the UK our National Health Service has limits on its budgets. How do we decide which treatments we can afford to...

Billions of bugs are already on and inside a baby within the first few days of life - but where do they come from? We...

Conditions are predicted to reach fever pitch at the World Cup in Brazil, with fears over Dengue fever outbreak.

The science of how DJ's mix seamlessly so that we can dance through tune transitions

This new prize offers £10 million to individuals who can solve 6 pressing modern day problems.

We know bacteria can play a role in environmental clean ups, but what about nature’s recyclers, fungi?

Joel Kostka investigated in how microorganisms played a role in cleaning up the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon Oil...