Putting numbers on how well looked after the animals that end up on our plate are...
Interviews with Scientists
Interviews about medicine, science, technology and engineering with scientists and researchers internationally...
24 December 2013
How good are we are detecting what really constitutes a bargain?
24 December 2013
Why do we put salt on the roads in winter and how did the Victorian's use the same science to make salt in their...
23 December 2013
How researching Huntington’s Disease is also helping us to grasp the incredible scale of complexity of the human brain.
23 December 2013
Mice are also being used to study Huntington’s this time though, by accelerating the disease.
23 December 2013
How trials are starting in sheep to find out if a new therapy for Huntington's could be developed, stopping...
23 December 2013
Professor Jenny Morton discusses the similarities between sheep and teenagers, and how she's taught sheep to kick...
23 December 2013
Can you find out how the human brain works by studying sheep? And look at sheep to develop a treatment for Huntington...
23 December 2013
How scientists and families affected worked to identify the gene responsible for Huntington's Disease.
23 December 2013
A family from Hollywood sets off on a quest to identify the gene responsible for Huntington's, changing the face...
23 December 2013
Richard Price describes how his wife Heather is affected by Huntington's Disease.
23 December 2013
23 hours in the air, crossing 12 time zones and covering 18, 000 km, on a mission to uncover the brain down under.
16 December 2013
Limb defects caused by the drug thalidomide can help us to understand the condition clubfoot.
16 December 2013
What organises cells to form structures in the body?
16 December 2013
How do eggs turn from one cell into a structured network of over a trillion cells?
16 December 2013
What determines the shape of cells?
16 December 2013
Can learning to play a musical instrument in childhood affect your intelligence?
13 December 2013
How does genetic information get passed around?
13 December 2013
Drugs and creatures from the depths: what can we learn by comparing DNA sequences?
12 December 2013
We talk to Professor David Nutt for his top neuroscience nuggets of 2013.
12 December 2013
We talk to Professor David Nutt for his top neuroscience nuggets of 2013.
12 December 2013
We talk to Professor David Nutt for his top neuroscience nuggets of 2013.
10 December 2013
This month's Gene of the Month is a bit on the large side - it’s called Tubby.