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Uta Frith
Professor Uta Frith came from a grey post war Germany to Britain in the swinging sixties, when research into conditions such as autism and dyslexia was in its infancy. At the time many people thought…
Published on 13 years, 10 months ago
John Sulston
Jim al-Khalili talks to biologist John Sulston about sequencing the genome first of a worm and then of man.
When, as a young man, John Sulston first decided to sequence the DNA of a worm, many of his…
Published on 13 years, 10 months ago
Nicky Clayton
Nicky Clayton is Professor of Comparative Cognition at Cambridge University. Her work challenges how we think of intelligence and she says that birds' brains developed independently from humans or ap…
Published on 13 years, 10 months ago
Molly Stevens
Jim al-Khalili talks to a scientist who grows human bones in a test tube, Molly Stevens.
Molly Stevens does geeky hard core science but her main aim is to help people. Twenty years ago, nobody though…
Published on 13 years, 10 months ago
Colin Blakemore
Colin Blakemore is a neuroscientist who nearly became an artist. He specialised in vision and the development of the brain, and pioneered the idea that the brain has the ability to change even in adu…
Published on 13 years, 10 months ago
Sir Michael Marmot
When Professor Sir Michael Marmot was a junior doctor he decided that medicine was failed prevention. To really understand disease you have to look at the society people live in. His major scientific…
Published on 13 years, 11 months ago
Steven Pinker
Cognitive psychologist, Steven Pinker, has been dubbed "science's agent provocateur".
Pinker studies how the mind works. Presenter Jim al-Khalili wants to find out how his mind works. Pinker replies:…
Published on 13 years, 11 months ago
Paul Nurse
Their work is changing the world we live in, but what do we really know about their lives beyond the lab?
Each week on The Life Scientific, Jim Al-Khalili, Professor of Physics at Surrey University, i…
Published on 13 years, 11 months ago