Interviews with Scientists

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?

Our gene of the month is Toddler. Officially known as Apela, Toddler is a new addition to the genetic canon and is...

Professor Jonathan Flint has some fascinating early results from his team’s hunt for genes involved in major depression.

Schizophrenia affects around one in 100 people. Professor Mike Owen explains what we know about the genes involved.

Professor Cathryn Lewis is searching for genes involved in depression.

Meet a moss-powered radio: scientists have discovered how to tap electricty from plants to power consumer items...

How we can change the lithium ion batteries in your phone or laptop to make them hold more energy.

How do you develop the replacement for the current lithium ion batteries

What a battery is and how do they work?

Evidence has been found that a father smoking as a child can affect his chiildren's levels of obesity

An ocean deeper than the Marianas trench has been discovered on Saturn's moon Enceladus