Interviews with Scientists

Can neuroscience be used to enhance the mental fortitude of a soldier and fighting force on the ground?

New technologies to assist the ability of the human body to repair itself

Matt Burnett discovers how the bladder of a sturgeon fish can help restore ancient manuscripts....

Could buildings be designed to repair themselves?

Nine missing Doctor Who episodes were found this year. How they were restored?

Typhoon Haiyan affected over 11 million people and displaced more than 600,000 in the Philippines, but how are aid...

Our gene of the month is happily married - it's Matrimony

Professor Ray Goldstein, from the University of Cambridge, studies how molecules organise themselves inside cells.

Professor Andreas Bausch is trying to understand how simple molecules come together to create complex, self-organised...

This month the Genetics Society had their Autumn Meeting, "Genes to shape". I spoke to co-organiser Prof...

A hungry baby is actually gulping down millions of its mother's stem cells...

Standard treatment for M.S. aims to prevent further damage, but new drugs may actually be able to repair damage...

We find out how environment and genetics intertwine to give rise to MS and hopes for treatment in the future.

We speak to MS patient Anthony about how a Campath drug trial has affected him.

What causes MS and how can the newly approved drug Campath treat it? We speak with Prof Alastair Compston from...

We speak with Anthony Dean about his experience of being diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis.

Using magnets to synchronise the spin of tumour molecules, exposing them to imaging technology

How scientists are exploiting biological markers to improve the diagnosis of cancer

Tracking cancer tumours from fragments of DNA left behind in blood

What causes cancer, and how are the causes of cancer conducted?

Could turbine rearrangement increase the amount of energy we get from wind farms?

Chimps use similar conceptual metaphors to the human "top of the tree" or "bottom of the pile" to...

Where do the cells lining the airway arise, and how does smoking affect them?

A new phylum of bacteria are uncovered in the human intestine...