INTERVIEWS

"If you've had your leg dragged under a motorbike, you'll sure as hell want this technology"

The Biologist speaks to Professor Noel Fitzpatrick, star of the Channel 4 show 'The Supervet', about his efforts to unite the fields of animal and human biomedical research

"The prevailing culture in science is about competition and the lone brilliant-mind type scientist"

The plant geneticist talks to Alison Woollard about the difference between working with animal and plant genomes, and her work to make science more inclusive

Interview: Richard Fortey

Author, trilobite expert and naturalist Richard Fortey Hon FRSB tells Tom Ireland about what fossils from hundreds of millions of years ago tell us about the ground we stand on now.

Interview: Dr Elizabeth White

Tom Ireland talks to filmmaker and former research biologist Dr Elizabeth White, who co-produced the extraordinary BBC series Planet Earth II and helped film that racer snake scene

Interview: Natasha de Vere

The ecologist and conservationist is DNA barcoding every species of native flowering plant in the UK

Interview: Stephen Metcalfe MP

Tom Ireland talks to the Essex MP, who was appointed chair of the Science and Technology Select Committee in October

Lost in translation

Nobel Prize-winning biochemist and president of the Royal Society Sir Venki Ramakrishnan explains the wonders of the ribosome, and why he left physics for biology
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