Researchers have used stem cells to make neural implants more refined and with less scar...
Interviews with Scientists
Interviews about medicine, science, technology and engineering with scientists and researchers internationally...
30 October 2011
Kathy High explains how changing the expression of genes can help treat diseases such as Haemophilia...
30 October 2011
Iain McNeish discusses how adenoviruses could be used to find and kill cancerous cells within the body...
30 October 2011
Simon Waddington explains how you could use gene therapy to treat certain disorders as early as in the womb...
30 October 2011
Rob MacLaren explores how we can manipulate genes to restore vision in patients with inherited blindness...
30 October 2011
You’ll remember, in the film Jurassic Park scientists manage to reconstruct dinosaurs from DNA preserved for tens of...
30 October 2011
Maria Limberis explores how respiratory disorders such as Cystic Fibrosis can be targeted by gene therapy...
24 October 2011
Scientists have brought language and computer science to the kitchen to teach you a language whilst you're cooking...
21 October 2011
The opening of the World's first spaceport, improving IVF success with genetic screening, New hope for a Malaria...
16 October 2011
A new technique to repair errors in DNA while leaving no trace...
16 October 2011
Rob Marrs explains how 'thug' species could be more damaging to our environment than invasive plant species...
16 October 2011
Chris Gilligan explains how mathematical models can be used to monitor the spread of plant disease...
16 October 2011
Emily Seward takes you on a trip to find leaf miners...and they appear to be everywhere.
16 October 2011
John Pickett discusses how plants can recruit insects to keep other pests at bay...
11 October 2011
We find out why Vitamin D can keep Tuberculosis at bay, how muscles can be mimicked with nanotubes, how prosthetic can...
11 October 2011
Kevin Hardy tells us which marine creature he'd like to be and why...
10 October 2011
Complex life forms first evolved in the oceans around 630 million years ago, but they didn't look much like to...
09 October 2011
This week has seen the announcment of the 2011 Nobel Prizes, so we invited BBC science correspondent Victoria Gill to...
09 October 2011
The opening a the largest ground telescope ever built, A probe planning a journey to the Sun and the revival of...
09 October 2011
Phytoplankton are the smallest organisms in the sea. Even so, these tiny little plants can be studied from space to...
09 October 2011
Could we soon be driving to work powered by algae? Emma Stoye discusses, with three Cambridge scientists, the potential...
09 October 2011
In the UK, we throw away over 7 million tonnes of food every year, the majority of which goes to landfill. But thanks...
09 October 2011
Hydrogen is a clean fuel, that can be produced in a number of clean ways. But how do we actually make use of it? Ben...
06 October 2011
Why did 90% of ocean life vanish 250 million years ago? We find out as we dive into Permian seas to investigate an...
04 October 2011
Chris Hill and Martin Siegert tell Richard Holligham about the technology which will be used to drill through over 3km...