Latest Interviews


‘Tis the season for laughter and joy

hjqbcptqcm.d hjqbcptqcm.d | Added: 18 Dec 2017

Fresh from delivering this year’s RI Christmas lectures, Professor Sophie Scott put her unique spin…

Pipetting in Hollywood

hjqbcptqcm.d hjqbcptqcm.d | Added: 18 Oct 2017

Science writer and broadcaster Adam Rutherford will be a keynote speaker at this year’s Lab Innovat…

A bastion of collaboration

hjqbcptqcm.d hjqbcptqcm.d | Added: 18 Sep 2017

In January of next year, Professor Edith Heard will take on one of the most important jobs in Europ…

When we were asked for zombie eyes…

hjqbcptqcm.d hjqbcptqcm.d | Added: 4 Jul 2017

Zombies can be recreated easily enough for the big screen with special effects and cosmetics. So wh…

Putting the biology into politics

hjqbcptqcm.d hjqbcptqcm.d | Added: 9 Jun 2017

As the world gets used to the new political landscape – how much of the recent upset came down to b…

Do antibodies have to be hit and miss?

hjqbcptqcm.d hjqbcptqcm.d | Added: 8 Jun 2017

From geneticist to frontline warrior in the antibody validation crisis – Dr Giancarlo Barone tells …

Inside the head of a manipulator

hjqbcptqcm.d hjqbcptqcm.d | Added: 9 May 2017

Parasitism is well known, but what happens when the parasite becomes the parasitised? Dr Kelly Wein…

The problem with PCR...

hjqbcptqcm.d hjqbcptqcm.d | Added: 13 Apr 2017

Nothing less than a total reimagining of how we perform PCR was the starting point for inventor Ger…

Who’d win a fight between Godzilla and a T. rex?

hjqbcptqcm.d hjqbcptqcm.d | Added: 21 Mar 2017

Following on from How Many Moons Does the Earth Have? Popular science writer Brian Clegg is back wi…

A right royal success

hjqbcptqcm.d hjqbcptqcm.d | Added: 6 Mar 2017

Following a fellowship award from the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851, Alice Hagan set …

Less is more for the gatekeeper of oncology

hjqbcptqcm.d hjqbcptqcm.d | Added: 21 Feb 2017

Late last year Dr Tony Ocasio discovered a first generation cancer inhibitor. Here he talks about t…

Antibody crisis: Order from chaos

hjqbcptqcm.d hjqbcptqcm.d | Added: 23 Nov 2016

As we slowly come to terms with the damage caused by the antibody validation crisis – there is hope…

It’s biology Jim, but not as we know it...

hjqbcptqcm.d hjqbcptqcm.d | Added: 13 Oct 2016

After his appearance at Lab Innovations – we hear from physicist and all-round science hero Profess…

Coming together for microbiology

hjqbcptqcm.d hjqbcptqcm.d | Added: 13 Sep 2016

From forensic post-mortems to veterinary pathogen drug resistance – two burgeoning microbiological …

Who’s your daddy?

hjqbcptqcm.d hjqbcptqcm.d | Added: 8 Jul 2016

AlphaBioLabs provide DNA paternity, drug and alcohol testing services and are the only lab used by …

Did the dinosaurs suffer with malaria?

hjqbcptqcm.d hjqbcptqcm.d | Added: 16 May 2016

A new analysis of the prehistoric origin of malaria suggests that it evolved in insects at least 10…

Come on feel the noise

hjqbcptqcm.d hjqbcptqcm.d | Added: 18 Apr 2016

Dr Adele Murrell fills us in on a new approach to making sense of "junk" DNA and RNA "noise" to fig…

What's really going on with the Zika virus?

hjqbcptqcm.d hjqbcptqcm.d | Added: 4 Feb 2016

The Zika virus and its possible health risks to pregnant women are very much in the public eye at t…

Microscopic subway passengers with a ticket to ride

hjqbcptqcm.d hjqbcptqcm.d | Added: 22 Jan 2016

A complete map of the microbiome of the New York City subway system? It’s possible – and all it tak…

Antimicrobial resistance – a disaster in the making?

hjqbcptqcm.d hjqbcptqcm.d | Added: 8 Jan 2016

After the emergence of yet another antibiotic resistance mechanism in the form of MCR-1, the future…