Latest Interviews


A very fertile mind

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Professor Simon Fishel worked with the team that created the first IVF baby in 1978 and with Nobel …

Bringing malaria diagnostics into the fold

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Malaria is one of the biggest killers on the planet. Early diagnosis is considered an incredibly im…

Reading the immune system

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It is a combination of academia and industry which is helping Aleksandr Kovaltsuk read the logbook …

Shooting down HIV hope

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When Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down over Ukraine in 2014, all passengers and crew were…

Perfecting the inside job

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An industrial fellowship helped Jonathan Vince explore how to avoid the grim side-effects of tradit…

Taking the wider view

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The ‘quality’ of a research paper is a tricky thing to quantify – journal impact factors and citati…

A right royal institution: Professor Aoife McLysaght

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This year, The Royal Institution Christmas lectures will, for the first time in its 194-year histor…

Finding the next generation of cancer therapy

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Having been awarded a grant from The Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 – Carlos Julià is …

Getting the right exposure

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Understanding the totality of environmental exposures from conception onward and what that might do…

The money man

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We are all aware of the sweat, tears, and stress required to win a grant bid… but what does it look…

The flora and fauna of modern forensics

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The postmortem microbiome, forensic botany and some very angry creationists… when Professor Nathan …

Therapeutics LIVE!

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It has access to the largest surface area of the body, alters drugs before they even enter the bloo…

Everyone is invited to the science party

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Dallas Campbell is a well-known science populariser and, this month, will be a key speaker at the S…

So near, yet so far

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To PhD students and supervisors everywhere – it may be a very tough road, but help is at hand. Prey…

Taking the fight to TB

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What is needed to beat TB is an approach that both takes it’s biochemical defences, but also avoids…

Taking on the resistance

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It is no secret that there is a desperate need for a response to antimicrobial resistance, so what …

A right royal success

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

Time to dissolve bias in STEM

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On the eve of the UN’s International day for women and girls in science we spoke to Dr Sarah Hosgoo…

Antibody crisis: Order from chaos

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

Our greatest achievement or our biggest mistake?

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Artificial intelligence carries as many risks as benefits, especially when it comes to military use…