Interviews about Biology

Time to get your dancing shoes on! It seems that the way you dance could say something about your genetic fitness – in...

John Bailey joins us to explain the problem with Japanese knotweed, and how this alien species could be kept under...

Immunotherapy, using the body's own immune cells to attack a tumour, could provide an alternative to radiotherapy...

Meera finds out how to keep your skin looking young and healthy...

DNA damage leads to many of the diseases we associate with ageing, so if we could stop DNA from being damaged, or...

Meera finds out how to keep your skin looking young and healthy...

We know that antibodies must pass from breastmilk to baby's blood, but only now have scientists watched one in the...

Whether or not bacteria stick around in your local hospital isn’t always down to local conditions or cleaning....

Some bacteria sense an immune response, and then become hyper-virulent. This means that treatment with antibiotics...

The bacterium MRSA has been the big villain of hospital acquired infections – it’s resistant to common antibacterial...

In some cases, the human heart can be 'pre-conditioned', and as such can withstand the damage of a heart...

Deep water corals, just like their relatives on the reefs, are an indication of a healthy ecosystem - but they also act...

Human activities affect the marine environment in different ways, and Kimberly Selkoe and colleagues at the University...

Chris talks to Karen Kidd from the University of New Brunswick in Canada about a study that investigated the...

David Karl from the University of Hawaii talks to Meera about the problems we face as climate change threatens ocean...

A new penguin tracking system can recognise an individual penguin from afar...

Trawl fishing involved hauling a net behind a boat, and is extremely good for catching large numbers of fish. However...

It's easy to dismiss bigfoot hunters as crackpots, inhabiting the 'lunatic fringe' of science - but,...

Planets come in many shapes and sizes, but how do they form? Chris met Micheal Meyer at the AAAS conference in Boston...

Our first passenger, Beverley Glover from Queens' College talks about the hot world of flowers.

Enzymes are the "amazing chemical machines" that make reactions happen billions of times faster than they...

An animatronic tongue created by scientists at the University of Sheffield could help us understand how speech is...

Dr Harren Jhoti founded Astex Therapeutics in 1999. We chatted to him to find out what happens in the process of...

Melanie McCullagh from Biotica tells us how they are fighting diseases using chemicals found in bacteria.