Interviews with Scientists

Understanding how the immune system sees cancer could help us find new ways to treat or prevent the disease...

We close with the enigma of integration, with Professor Sir John Gurdon from Cambridge University.

A new technique transforms hair-producing cells from the scalp into networks of nerve cells that can be used to study...

Can we stimulate new nerve cells to form in our brains, or are we stuck with the number that we are born with? We...

An Oxford Don is up all night marvelling over the fact that brain and behaviour is a two way street...

The Naked Scientists don’t just sit in the buff in the studio interviewing scientists. Oh no! We also get dressed and...

We discuss the ethical and social implications of 'Smart Drugs'

Scientists scrutinise the brain in an attempt to get to the bottom of stereotypical adolescent behaviours...

What is it like to take part in clinical research?

The mood symptoms of Parkinson's Disease...

What is Parkinson's like for patients?

How stem cell technology is teaching us about Parkinson's...

Kick-starting the programme, I went in search of answers about Parkinson's disease. First up, I wanted to get...

At least some aspect of our body mass index is encoded in our genes...

It’s time to take a voyage in our gene of the month - it’s glass bottom boat, or gbb.

Now it’s time to meet the Rinkidinks. These creatures are the creation of Dr Tiffany Taylor, an evolutionary biologist...

Now for some other fascinating animals – pandas. I saw in the latest issue of Nature Genetics from Shancen Zhao that...

One study that's very interesting is looking at how a quarter of the cow genome actually came from snakes or is...

We finish the final episode of Naked Oceans by pondering what great discoveries might lie ahead