Putting numbers on how well looked after the animals that end up on our plate are...
Interviews with Scientists
Interviews about medicine, science, technology and engineering with scientists and researchers internationally...
Madhusudan Srinivasan discusses a new target for cancer drugs - blocking the repair of DNA...
This week's NewsFlash explores how smoking could pave the way for cocaine use, how our skin sees sunlight in order...
If you've seen a recent 3D film, you'll know that studying polarised light can be really helpful. The Cosmic...
Blue Stragglers are strange stars that don’t seem to fit the standard picture of stellar evolution. New research helps...
Haemophilia is a disorder of blood clotting factors, leading to excessive bleeding in patients. To find out what it...
Kathy High explains how changing the expression of genes can help treat diseases such as Haemophilia...
Iain McNeish discusses how adenoviruses could be used to find and kill cancerous cells within the body...
Simon Waddington explains how you could use gene therapy to treat certain disorders as early as in the womb...
Rob MacLaren explores how we can manipulate genes to restore vision in patients with inherited blindness...
You’ll remember, in the film Jurassic Park scientists manage to reconstruct dinosaurs from DNA preserved for tens of...
Maria Limberis explores how respiratory disorders such as Cystic Fibrosis can be targeted by gene therapy...
Scientists have brought language and computer science to the kitchen to teach you a language whilst you're cooking...
The opening of the World's first spaceport, improving IVF success with genetic screening, New hope for a Malaria...
A new technique to repair errors in DNA while leaving no trace...
Rob Marrs explains how 'thug' species could be more damaging to our environment than invasive plant species...
Chris Gilligan explains how mathematical models can be used to monitor the spread of plant disease...
Emily Seward takes you on a trip to find leaf miners...and they appear to be everywhere.
John Pickett discusses how plants can recruit insects to keep other pests at bay...
We find out why Vitamin D can keep Tuberculosis at bay, how muscles can be mimicked with nanotubes, how prosthetic can...
Kevin Hardy tells us which marine creature he'd like to be and why...
Complex life forms first evolved in the oceans around 630 million years ago, but they didn't look much like to...
This week has seen the announcment of the 2011 Nobel Prizes, so we invited BBC science correspondent Victoria Gill to...
The opening a the largest ground telescope ever built, A probe planning a journey to the Sun and the revival of...
Phytoplankton are the smallest organisms in the sea. Even so, these tiny little plants can be studied from space to...