Interviews with Scientists

Interviews about medicine, science, technology and engineering with scientists and researchers internationally...

06 May 2014

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

28 April 2014

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

28 April 2014

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

28 April 2014

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

28 April 2014

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

28 April 2014

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

28 April 2014

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

28 April 2014

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

28 April 2014

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

22 April 2014

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

22 April 2014

How the gene for Huntington's disease was discovered

22 April 2014

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

22 April 2014

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

22 April 2014

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

19 April 2014

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

19 April 2014

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

19 April 2014

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

19 April 2014

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

15 April 2014

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

10 April 2014

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

10 April 2014

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

10 April 2014

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

10 April 2014

Professor Cathryn Lewis is searching for genes involved in depression.

08 April 2014

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