Interviews with Scientists

What is the genetic basis for different sensitivities to specific smells?

Could smell come from the vibrations of individual molecules?

Bacteria incorporating ancient DNA from a woolly mammoth into their genome and implications for antibiotic resistance...

Duncan Boak tells Ginny Smith about how he lost his sense of smell and how it changed his life...

Captain Mark Lyndhurst served in Afghanistan and describes how the experience has left scars.

Military life can leave mental scars in post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). President Obama highlights the stigma...

How can you tweak with people's belief systems to alter their viewpoints? And how has this been used in war and...

The nerve toxin Serin, mustard gas and how best to protect civilians and medical personel on site.

Putting military neuroscience into historical context: chemical warfare committed by the Greeks some 2300 yrs ago with...

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...