Latest Interviews
‘Tis the season for laughter and joy
qmwwwtqmqt.d qmwwwtqmqt.d | Added: 18 Dec 2017
Fresh from delivering this year’s RI Christmas lectures, Professor Sophie Scott put her unique spin…
Pipetting in Hollywood
qmwwwtqmqt.d qmwwwtqmqt.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
qmwwwtqmqt.d qmwwwtqmqt.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…
qmwwwtqmqt.d qmwwwtqmqt.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
qmwwwtqmqt.d qmwwwtqmqt.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?
qmwwwtqmqt.d qmwwwtqmqt.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
qmwwwtqmqt.d qmwwwtqmqt.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...
qmwwwtqmqt.d qmwwwtqmqt.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?
qmwwwtqmqt.d qmwwwtqmqt.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
qmwwwtqmqt.d qmwwwtqmqt.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
qmwwwtqmqt.d qmwwwtqmqt.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
qmwwwtqmqt.d qmwwwtqmqt.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...
qmwwwtqmqt.d qmwwwtqmqt.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
qmwwwtqmqt.d qmwwwtqmqt.d | Added: 13 Sep 2016
From forensic post-mortems to veterinary pathogen drug resistance – two burgeoning microbiological …
Who’s your daddy?
qmwwwtqmqt.d qmwwwtqmqt.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?
qmwwwtqmqt.d qmwwwtqmqt.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
qmwwwtqmqt.d qmwwwtqmqt.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?
qmwwwtqmqt.d qmwwwtqmqt.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
qmwwwtqmqt.d qmwwwtqmqt.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?
qmwwwtqmqt.d qmwwwtqmqt.d | Added: 8 Jan 2016
After the emergence of yet another antibiotic resistance mechanism in the form of MCR-1, the future…