Interviews about Medicine

Most people are familiar with epilepsy, we may have friends and relatives who suffer from seisures, but the disease it...

Olaf Blanke tells Chris Smith about how a certain region of the brain can be tricked into making you believe there...

Bipolar disorder, also known as Manic Depression, is one of the most common neuropsychiatric disorders. We spoke to...

This week, Chelsea looks at making music from babies' cries, and Bob explores how babies can spot different...

We spoke to Chemistry World's Richard Van Noorden about how chemistry can help us quit smoking and hide the signs...

We sent Ben Valsler to visit the newly opened Wellcome Collection in London, a place where science and art go hand in...

Michael Watts on how to search for arsenic in contaminated land, and the impact on people's health

Dr Hazel Wilkinson tells Sabina Michnowicz how she used her plant identification skills and a book of spells to help...

We spoke to Dr Trevor Emmett, lecturer in Forensic Science at Anglia Ruskin University about what forensics is, an dhow...

Azi Khatiri goes to a lab for a hair cut - to see if vegetarian hair is different to that of a carnivore, or if a rural...

Serena Marks tells us how you might not lose the goodness of apples when making cider, and in fact that cider might be...

This week Bob and Chelsea discuss how lifestyle affects obisity.

Prof. Nicky Clayton on her studies with corvids - a group of birds who plan, scheme, steal and even make tools.

Dr Andrew Smith tells us why primates have evolved the ability to see in three colours - and how this could have helped...

This week, Chelsea and Bob look at diseases of the brain. Chelsea sniffs out a new way of screening for Alzheimers...

George Cotsarelis, of the University of Pennsylvania speaks to Chris about how he identified the genetic pathways...

Scott Manalis tells us about the technique he has developed for weighing tiny objects underwater, such as single cells...

This week, Bob and Chelsea look at how we react to bacteria. Bob looks into how bacteria could protect us from Asthma...

Dr Tim Wreghitt explains how noroviruses spread themselves through projectile vomit and use cruise ships as the perfect...

For kitchen science we tried to see if there's any truth to the urban legend that there's more bacteria on a...

Dr Ali Ashby on all that is fantastic about fungi. From the worlds largest organism to the flavour of chocolate, we...

Andrew Boulton explains how Maggots help to cure infection with MRSA, or Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus,...

Bob and Chelsea tell us why having a high IQ may not be the que to success.

Bruce Winney talks about the genes which make up the British people