Interviews about Biology

This week, Mark Peplow comes in to tell us about the moves towards holographic 3D TV, how it could take years to pay...

Prostate cancer is the most common form of cancer for men in the UK, and now researchers at the Institute of Cancer...

The Louisiana wetlands are the largest in the USA and amongst the largest wetlands in the world, playing a vital role...

despite being expanses of waterlogged land, wetlands actually offer great protection against flooding. So good, in...

Wetlands are disappearing faster than rainforests, and support a huge number of species as well as offering protection...

We suss out the facts of flu with Cambridge university researcher Ed Hutchinson...

We find out about a revolutionary new way to diagnose our winter bugs in two hours rather than two weeks. It’s going to...

We’ve already heard about how flu actually causes disease, how it invades us, how it hijacks our cells and makes us...

Do ants look tasty to you? These ones might do! Dr Steve Yanoviak and his team have found a species of ant which,...

Could the ocean provide a good 'sink' for carbon dioxide? We invited Margaret Leinen, from Climos, and Dr...

This month, we explore a surface that becomes non-stick at the flip of a switch, visit the Paris of 55 million years...

One of the most common addictions on Earth is the addiction to cigarettes, so tobacco and nicotine addiction. A very...

How does addiction change the brain? Professor Julie Kauer has found that the changes involved in becoming addicted...

It’s that time of the year when everyone is thinking, ‘how many inches extra, feet, pounds, stone have I gained over...

Alzheimer's disease affects 1 person in 5 over the age of 80, and can have devastating effect on the families of...

How does having Alzheimer's disease change the structure of the brain? Not much, actually. According to Peter...

We sent Meera to UCL’s centre for Stem Cell Research, to find out the basics of stem cell technology.

We spoke to Professor Roger Pedersen, of the Centre for Regenerative Medicine at Cambridge University, about...

We spoke to Professor Ian Wilmut who, in 1996, cloned the first mammal, Dolly the sheep.

For Kitchen Science, Ben found out how to clone at home!

When you're buying training shoes, do you really get what you pay for? Professor Rami Abboud doesn't think...

Birds do it, bees do it, but now Irene Terry, from the University of Utah, has found that primitive plants indulge in...

Now, there must be thousands of beers available worldwide and of course, beer sales are very big business. But how do...

The chemistry of carbon dioxide could give us better beers, by supplying brewers with exactly the compounds they need,...