Interviews with Scientists

Professor David Phillips and his team are figuring out how our DNA gets damaged, and which chemicals are responsible

Orphan genes appear and disappear quite quickly in Drosophila, leaving the total number of genes roughly constant...

Bacteria employ a sophisticated method to ensure that they swim in a particular direction.

Chaperones are proteins that help other proteins to fold properly, and being flexible makes chaperones better at this...

A protein called RYE – short for Redeye - has a central role in the regulation of sleep...

Songbirds stop listening to themselves when they start to sing...

Blaise Thomson explains how he designs spoken language interfaces to allow computers to speak to us...

How do robots help scientists with their work every day in the lab?

Paul Meacham explains the challenges he faces while working on building the ExoMars Rover...

Higher stress levels may make people more risk averse meaning that brokers take fewer risks in difficult financial...

An infection control nurse shows us how best to wash our hands.

How do hospitals protect their patients against Norovirus and how much does it cost them every year?

How does the virus spread, and for how long do people stay infected with it for?

We find out about the norovirus, or the winter vomiting bug, that affects up to 1 million people a year.

This week Cambridge researchers identified the first biomarker for major, or clinical, depression.

Closing the show from New Zeland with some Kiwi jokes.

How researching Huntington’s Disease is also helping us to grasp the incredible scale of complexity of the human brain.

Growing brain cells in a petri dish to form a brain network. How similar these cells are to a conscious, living human...

A bank of hundreds of frozen human brains from Huntington’s Disease patients, and also healthy controls. What do they...

How a bank of frozen human brains is acting as a reference library, how a Hindu resolves conflicting religious and...

How do large oil spills such as the Deepwater Horizon disaster impact Tuna fish?

How do children learn language and why is 'motherese', the sing song voice we speak to children in, important?

Why do some children's language skills progress more quickly than others? And could a child's background...

Are video games helping or halting our children's brains?