Latest Interviews


Good science communication is vital

Added: 28 Apr 2020

There is no more important time to get science communication right than during a pandemic. But, say…

Curbing our animal instinct

Added: 10 Mar 2020

Amy Beale, Scientific Liaison Officer at independent charity FRAME explains the importance of educa…

Five things you learn from working in cleanrooms

Added: 19 Aug 2019

Want to avoid committing a serious faux pas before you start working in cleanrooms? That would be h…

Just play the game

Added: 10 Jun 2019

Games have never been more popular – but can they really help in the teaching of science? You bet y…

Bringing malaria diagnostics into the fold

hdpqmpdbhq.d hdpqmpdbhq.d | Added: 5 Apr 2019

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

Making the Crick… tick

hdpqmpdbhq.d hdpqmpdbhq.d | Added: 20 Mar 2019

An intriguing invitation took Dr Emily Scott-Dearing behind the scenes of The Francis Crick Institu…

Reading the immune system

hdpqmpdbhq.d hdpqmpdbhq.d | Added: 14 Feb 2019

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

Shooting down HIV hope

hdpqmpdbhq.d hdpqmpdbhq.d | Added: 4 Feb 2019

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

Taking the wider view

hdpqmpdbhq.d hdpqmpdbhq.d | Added: 3 Jan 2019

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

Finding the next generation of cancer therapy

hdpqmpdbhq.d hdpqmpdbhq.d | Added: 28 Nov 2018

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

The money man

hdpqmpdbhq.d hdpqmpdbhq.d | Added: 15 Jun 2018

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

Therapeutics LIVE!

hdpqmpdbhq.d hdpqmpdbhq.d | Added: 21 May 2018

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

Taking the fight to TB

hdpqmpdbhq.d hdpqmpdbhq.d | Added: 15 Feb 2018

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

A distinctly combinatorial approach

hdpqmpdbhq.d hdpqmpdbhq.d | Added: 12 Feb 2018

As energy costs go up, will we be able to leverage the power of the sun to produce chemicals? Meet …

Taking on the resistance

hdpqmpdbhq.d hdpqmpdbhq.d | Added: 12 Jan 2018

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

A right royal success

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

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

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

hdpqmpdbhq.d hdpqmpdbhq.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

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

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

Who’s your daddy?

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

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

Antimicrobial resistance – a disaster in the making?

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

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