Latest Interviews
Making tough choices digestible
Added: 16 Dec 2024
“To eat is to compete in an arms race,” says Dr Chris van Tulleken, whose thoughts on evangelising …
Global focus: the key to infectious disease control
Added: 31 Oct 2024
President of the International Society for Infectious Diseases, Professor Paul Ananth Tambyah expla…
Floored science
Added: 10 Jun 2024
The lab is a key and growing component of the annual CHEMUK Expo. Managing director of show organis…
Science in the round
Added: 2 Apr 2024
The Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) remains one of Europe’s largest multidisciplin…
Evolving prostate cancer research with FFPE samples
Added: 29 May 2023
Dr. Nallasivam Palanisamy of the Henry Ford Health System and Michigan State University and Dr. Han…
An end to the guesswork
Added: 9 May 2023
A chance request spurred a family firm to install a high-tech lab that has brought unprecedented ac…
Risk, rewards, and regulations for gene editing
Added: 3 May 2022
UK leading authority on the human genome, Professor Robin Lovell-Badge speaks with Dermot Martin on…
It’s all just a matter of perception
Added: 4 Apr 2022
In anticipation of the announcement of this year’s competition winners, we asked previous winners a…
Understanding menopause in your workforce
Added: 1 Mar 2022
While jumping at the chance to tell her personal story about how menopause has affected her work, t…
Liquid biopsy for solid tumour research
Added: 3 Feb 2022
Liquid biopsy is becoming more and more promising for solid tumour research, detection and surveill…
Diagnosing dysbiosis – understanding imbalance in human gut microbiota
Added: 10 Jan 2022
Dysbiosis describes imbalance in healthy gut bacteria... but what is a healthy gut? We ask Christin…
The promise of COVID-19 surveillance through wastewater testing
Added: 22 Dec 2021
Pandemic modelling data can be gathered through mass testing by monitoring viral RNA levels in wast…
Catherine Noakes and the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE)
Added: 14 Dec 2021
As part of a collaborative group of six British expert scientists, Catherine Noakes will join Jonat…
Sharon Peacock and the COVID-19 Genomics UK Consortium (COG-UK)
Added: 14 Dec 2021
As part of our 2021 Royal Institutions Christmas Lecture coverage, we ask Sharon Peacock how discov…
Monitoring: The key to vaccine production and distribution safety
Added: 2 Dec 2021
Manufacturing of any vaccine is a complex process that requires consistent monitoring to ensure eff…
Quest to control our genes by the power of thought
Added: 22 Nov 2021
The power to control living cells by treating molecules as switches or transistors has been establi…
Pandemic accelerates automation in the lab sector
Added: 15 Oct 2021
Laboratories are just one of the many businesses that were forced to adapt operations because of th…
Understanding SARS-CoV-2 spike proteins in vaccines
Added: 13 Sep 2021
The SARS-CoV-2 virus uses complex glycan sugars to hide from the immune system. Tasked with product…
Celebrating 50 years with the mother of 'ELISA'
Added: 27 Aug 2021
In an exclusive interview with Dermot Martin, Eva Engvall discusses the invention and evolution of …
COVID-19: Testing times for laboratories
Added: 7 May 2021
Following what may have felt like a slow uptake of voluntary third-party laboratory testing support…
