Interviews with Scientists

Kicking off the programme, I spoke with Terry Laverty who was recently been diagnosed with ADHD...

Why is your hearing sometimes quieter after a loud concert? New research has revealed an automatic reaction...

How can gene therapy be used to treat Cystic Fibrosis? We spoke to Dr Stephen Hart to find out more...

We discuss the future of stem cell therapy with a round table discussion from the British Society for Gene and Cell...

We investigate how gene and virus therapy can be used to treat cancer...

Are our decisions the result of free will? If neurons are subject to cause and effect could free will be an illusion?

We investigate one of the most significant fossil finds in Britain, a woolly rhino skeleton found in a Staffordshire...

We visit the Malpa site in South Africa where fossils from some of our earliest human ancestors are found...

Our gene of the month is the adventurous Scott of the Antarctic, which was first discovered in fruit flies back in...

In our cells, DNA is wrapped around ball-like packing proteins. But why doesn't it get all tangled up? And what...

Mark Henderson gives us a taster of what to expect at the Genetics Society Spring meeting, looking at genomics for...

Almost every one of your cells has more than 2 metres of DNA packed into it. How is this achieved, and how is it...

New research investigates whether gut bacteria changes following gastric bypass surgery can be transplanted into other...

Oceanographers have come up with the unusual idea of weighing the global ocean at a single point to assess how big it...

Kirsten Gottschalk and Dominic Ford investigate the science being undertaken with the SKA's precursor instruments...

PhD student Sarah Thompson discusses her work, researching the physics of radio telescope receivers...

Kirsten Gottschalk visits the future site of the Square Kilometer Array in the Australian outback...