FT Science with Clive Cookson

In this week's podcast: We talk to the head of science at the Royal Horticultural Society about the science of gardening and about a new competition he has launched to encourage biodiversity in gardens, called The Big Wildlife Garden; we talk to Amy Gutmann, chair of the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, about an awful breach of ethics which involved US researchers in Guatemala infecting people with sexually transmitted diseases without their consent; and, Deborah Cohen reports for the BMJ on an unprecedented disclosure of product information by a medical technology company.Presented by Clive Cookson with Andrew Jack and Diana Garnham.Produced by LJ Filotrani Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We are live from the British Science Festival in Bradford, for this week's podcast. Astrophysicist Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell, President of the British Science Association, joins Clive Cookson and FT Science regular, Diana Garnham, to talk about her presidential address, on the theme of science and culture. She also talks about the influence of poetry in her life and reads a couple of poems.Nadia Ramlagan from AAAS reports on the love songs male hummingbirds make with their tail feathers to attract femalesPresented by Clive Cookson with Diana Garnham.Produced by LJ Filotrani Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this week's podcast: we review a report by the Science Council on the scientific workforce; we talk to Jonathan Wood, medical and scientific press officer for Oxford University, about his internship at the FT; and, Duncan Jarvies from the BMJ asks whether eating chocolate is really good for your health.Presented by Clive Cookson with Diana Garnham.Produced by LJ Filotrani Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this week's podcast: We discuss the science and business of vaccine development with chief executive of biotech company Seek, Gregory Stoloff and Nadia Ramlagan from AAAS reports on how electronic 'smart skin' will provide a new way to monitor the human body.Presented by Clive Cookson with Andrew Jack.Produced by LJ Filotrani Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this week's podcast: We talk to commissioning and governance director of the Genetics Labs at Guy's Hospital, London, Gail Norbury, about gene testing laboratories and patents on DNA; and, Harriet Vickers, from the BMJ, reports on mobile detection units for tuberculosis in the UK.Presented by Clive Cookson with Diana Garnham.Produced by LJ Filotrani Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this week's podcast: We talk to professor of medical immunlology at Leeds University and founder of biotech start-up Tissue Regenix, Eileen Ingham, about tissue engineering - how we can make new body parts to replace ones that have failed; and, we look at the health of Britain's science-based businesses with serial entrepreneur Hermann Hauser of Amadeus Capital Partners.Presented by Clive Cookson with Diana Garnham.Produced by LJ Filotrani Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this week's podcast: we discuss the efficacy of alternative and complementary medicine with once advocate, now critic, Professor Edzard Ernst; and, we find out from Duncan Jarvies and the BMJ, how cities can be made more 'age-friendly' for increasingly ageing populations.Presented by Clive Cookson with Andrew Jack.Produced by LJ Filotrani Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this week’s podcast: We talk to chief executive of the UK National Centre for the Replacement and Reduction of Animals in Research, Vicky Robinson, about a new policy set out by the UK government to reduce the use of animals in research; and, we hear about the stressful life of an alpha male baboon, from Nadia Ramlagan and AAAS.Presented by Clive Cookson with Andrew Jack and Diana Garnham.Produced by LJ Filotrani Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this week’s podcast: We talk to Andrew Miller, Labour MP and chair of the Science and Technology Committee, about a new inquiry examining the importance of experiments in school science lessons, plus Duncan Jarvies reports for the BMJ on water and whether there is any scientific evidence that proves drinking too little is harmful.Presented by Andrew Jack with Diana Garnham.Produced by LJ Filotrani Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this week's podcast: We talk to Francis Collins, head of the world's biggest biomedical research agency, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), about translating basic science into clinical benefits; we discover the sound of graphs with a Bristol research team at this year's Royal Society Summer Exhibition; and, Duncan Jarvies from the BMJ reports on what really happened during the recent outbreak of e. coli in Germany.Presented by Clive Cookson with Andrew Jack.Produced by LJ Filotrani Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this week's podcast: we talk to vice-president of the Association of Healthcare Journalists and science editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer, Karl Stark, about the state of health/science journalism in the US and in Europe and we hear from AAAS about new enzymes linked to a cancer-related muscle wasting disorder called cachexia.Presented by Clive Cookson with Andrew Jack and Diana GarnhamProduced by LJ Filotrani Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this week's podcast: We take an optimist's tour into the future, with writer and comedian Mark Stevenson and Nadia Ramlagan from AAAS reports on why smoking can keep your weight down.Presented by Clive Cookson with Diana GarnhamProduced by LJ Filotrani Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this week's podcast: We talk to neuroscientist at King's College London, Christoph Anacker about how anti-depressants stimulate new cell growth in the brain and Duncan Jarvies from the BMJ reports on the chronic health effects from lack of sleep.Presented by Clive Cookson with Diana Garnham.Produced by LJ Filotrani and Martin Stabe Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this week's podcast: The sounds of science - we talk to composer Bill Dougherty about a piece of music composed for the Sound of Science day at the Science Museum called 'In Time'; plus we hear from Nadia Ramlagan from AAAS about how the sense of smell may have stimulated brain evolution in our mammalian ancestors 200 million years ago.Presented by Clive Cookson with Diana GarnhamProduced by LJ Filotrani Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this week's podcast: We talk to the new executive director of the International Aids Society, Bertrand Audoin about his role and the agenda for the IAS in the coming months; we hear from the National Gallery about using science to detect fakes, study art history and help restore Old Master paintings; Duncan Jarvies from the BMJ reports on the practice of substantial equivalence, which allows manufacturers of medical devices to make tweaks to products without having to go through lengthy clinical trials.Presented by Andrew Jack with Diana Garnham. Produced by LJ Filotrani Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this week's podcast: We talk to David Clary, the first chief scientific adviser to the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office about science and diplomacy and how the UK government finds out what is happening scientifically in other countries, and we hear from Professor Steven Bishop of University College London about an ambitious plan to computerise the social sciences and policy-making.Presented by Clive Cookson with Andrew Jack and Diana Garnham.Produced by LJ Filotrani Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this week's podcast: We talk to professor of cell biology at St George's, University of London, Dorothy Bennett about her research into the mortality and immortality of cancer cells; we talk to a computer scientist from the University of Vermont, Josh Bongard, about his work enlisting evolution to help design robots; and, the British Medical Journal's contribution this week from Duncan Jarvies is on the prevalence of arsenic in drinking water in many parts of the world, particularly Bangladesh.Presented by Clive Cookson with Andrew Jack in Berlin.Produced by LJ Filotrani Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this week's podcast: We hear about the latest discovery of dry ice on Mars and why the release of carbon dioxide has a cooling effect on the Martian climate; and, we talk to Jeremy Farrar, head of Oxford University Clinical Research Unit in Vietnam about planning for emergencies.Presented by Clive Cookson with Andrew Jack.The AAAS contribution on the discovery of dry ice on Mars, is by Nadia Ramligan.Produced by LJ Filotrani Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this week's podcast: We talk to mathematician Tony Crilly about the role of maths in science and whether it's possible to determine a fair voting system by using a mathematical theory. We also talk about his latest book Big Questions: Mathematics.The British Medical Journal contribution by Duncan Jarvies is on the development of an artificial pancreas which could make life much simpler for diabetics.Presented by Clive Cookson with Diana Garnham.Produced by LJ Filotrani Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this week's podcast: We celebrate space science on the 50th anniversary of the day Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space - we talk to guest John Zarnecki, one of Britain's leading space scientists, inspired to become involved in space, after meeting Yuri as a school boy in north London. We also find out about the continuing battle against malaria with a report from Andrew Jack who has just returned from Senegal.Presented by Clive Cookson with Andrew Jack and Diana Garnham.Produced by LJ Filotrani Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this week's podcast: We look at the tobacco industry and ask Action on Smoking and Health campaigner, Deborah Arnott, whether companies which make huge amounts of money selling cigarettes can be trusted to develop safer alternatives to smoking; and we hear a report from Duncan Jarvies of the BMJ about whether screening for prostate cancer does more harm than good.Presented by Clive Cookson with Diana Garnham.Produced by LJ Filotrani Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this week's podcast: We talk to shadow minister for science and innovation Chi Onwuhra about UK science policy issues; we hear from France's minister for science and higher education, Valérie Pécresse, about the French government's ambitious reform programme for research and universities; we hear about people who lived in India more than a million years ago, in a report from AAAS by Nadia Ramlagan.Presented by Clive Cookson with Diana Garnham.Produced by LJ Filotrani Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this week's show: A major new exhibition by the Welcome Trust - Dirt: The filthy reality of everyday life; and, ahead of World TB day on Thursday, we talk to TB-HIV advocate from Malawi, Thokozile Phiri-Nkhoma about the enduring problems of tackling the disease; BMJ contribution is on risk - the tricks companies use to obfuscate risk with numbers.Guest in the studio is professor of microbiology at UCL and author of Bacteriology of humans - an ecological perspective, Mike Wilson.Presented by Andrew Jack with a BMJ contribution from Duncan Jarvies.Produced by LJ Filotrani Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this week's podcast: We talk to nuclear expert Richard Wakeford, from Manchester University's Dalton Nuclear Institute, about the situation in Japan. We also explore multiple universes with professor of maths and physics Brian Greene. Brian's new book, The Hidden Reality is all about parallel universes and the deep laws of the cosmos. Presented by Clive Cookson with Andrew Jack and Diana Garnham.Produced by LJ Filotrani Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Clive Cookson talks to author Brian Greene about his book The Hidden Reality: Parallel universes and the deep laws of the cosmos Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Should we be pessimistic about the environment and climate change, or is there cause for optimism? Two environmentalists, Tim Flannery and Bjørn Lomborg, give their view. Plus: cannabis and psychosisPresented by Andrew Jack Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this week's podcast: We talk to Dame Sally Davies, head of research and development in the NHS about her future plans for the National Institute for Health Research; and, we hear from Olaf Blanke about a project he is heading up at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, on using virtual reality to project volunteers into the bodies of avatars.Presented by Clive Cookson with Andrew Jack and Diana Garnham.Produced by LJ Filotrani Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this week's podcast: report on the 65th birthday of the National Survey of Health and Development from the BMJ; testing research - journalist Brian Deer talks about Andrew Wakefield and his discredited research on the MMR vaccine; and Hod Lipson on 3d printing - exciting new developments from Cornell University, in replacing traditional 3d printing materials with biological materials such as live cells.Presented by Andrew Jack with Diana Garnham and Brian Deer in the studio and Clive Cookson on the phone. Contribution on cohort studies from the BMJ is by Duncan Jarvies.Produced by LJ Filotrani Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this week's podcast: We return to our science and art feature with author Peter Forbes and his new book – Dazzled and Deceived: Mimicry and Camouflage; we consider the debate surrounding prevention rather than cure with Andrew Thompson from biomedical company Proteus; we look at the future of the pharma industry following the announcement by Pfizer recently that it is to close its research facility in Kent, with Dr Chas Bountra, chief scientist and head of the Structural Genomics Consortium at Oxford University.Presented by Andrew Jack with Diana Garnham.Produced by LJ Filotrani Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this week's podcast: We ask whether people can be nudged into changing their health behaviour; we look at the science behind watching your weight with chief scientist of Weight Watchers International, Karen Miller-Kovach; and we discuss European innovation policy with Máire Geoghegan-Quinn.BMJ segment on nudging behaviour by Duncan Jarvies.Presented by Clive Cookson with Andrew Jack, Diana Garnham and Fi Godlee, editor of the BMJ.Produced by LJ Filotrani Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this week’s podcast: We focus on genetics - past and future advances in understanding how our genes work, and the opportunities these provide for improved healthcare and disease prevention. With guests, writer and broadcaster Vivienne Parry OBE and director of the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Peter Donnelly.Presented by Clive Cookson with Diana Garnham and Andrew Jack.Produced by LJ Filotrani Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this week's podcast: Clive talks to the chief scientific adviser to the UK government, Sir John Beddington, about the long-term global future of food and farming and we have our first contribution from the British Medical Journal (BMJ) about the implications of the shake-up planned for Britain's National Health Service.The BMJ contribution on the NHS is presented by Duncan Jarvies.Presented by Clive Cookson with Andrew Jack.Produced by LJ Filotrani Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this week's podcast: We talk to Rob Allan from the UK Met office and Nick Klingaman from Reading University about the impact La Nina is having on Australia and surrounding countries. We talk to Clive Stanway, chief scientist for Cancer Research Technology, about cancer stem cells and we hear from Andrew Jack about his recent trip to Haiti - a year on from the earthquake.Presented by Clive Cookson with Diana Garnham and Andrew Jack.Produced by LJ Filotrani Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this week's podcast: We ask how health research can be regulated in a way that protects patients without stifling science and we hear from a group of Californians who have come to learn about bioscience in Britain.Studio guest is David Gillen, head of international medical affairs at Gilead Sciences.Also on the show: Moira Gunn, head of biotechnology programmes at the University of San Francisco business school and two of her masters degree students, Olga Levin and Karim Michael Tahir.Presented by Clive Cookson, with Diana Garnham.Produced by LJ Filotrani Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this week's podcast: Studio guest is Fiona Fox, director of the Science Media Centre in London. She talks to Clive Cookson about the role the media play in disseminating science to the public, some of the biggest stories from 2010 and things to watch out for in 2011.Presented by Clive CooksonProduced by LJ Filotrani Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A festive FT science podcast this week, with a look at the science behind beer brewing, with special guest Simon Jackson, chief executive of the Institute of Brewing and Distilling. Presented by Clive Cookson, with regular guest Diana Garnham, chief executive of the Science Council.Produced by Emily Cadman Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this week's podcast: One of the world's most innovative fashion designers, Emily Crane, brings her edible clothing into the studio. We talk to her about the science used to make her materials.Science Magazine reports on a microbe that lives on arsenic.Presented by Clive Cookson with Andrew Jack and Diana Garnham.Produced by LJ Filotrani Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this week's podcast: We mark World Aids Day with a chat to Sir Nick Partridge, chief executive of the Terrence Higgins Trust, we discuss the future of space flight with Kevin Fong, from University College London - an expert on space medicine, and we hear from Science Magazine about how women can overcome sexist stereotypes in physics courses.Presented by Clive Cookson with Andrew Jack.Produced by LJ Filotrani Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this week's podcast: We talk about selling sickness and ask whether drug companies are turning us all into patients whether we like it or not; we hear about a cheap new meningitis vaccine developed for the communities in Africa and Science Magazine reports on quantum physics concepts. Guest this week is Simon Denegri, chief executive of the Association of Medical Research Charities. Presented by Clive Cookson with Andrew Jack in the studio.Produced by Emily Cadman Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this week's podcast: We talk about the prospects for an AIDS vaccine with one of the world's leading HIV vaccine researchers, Gary Nabel, and we hear from Andrew Jack in Brussels who is attending a conference on innovation in health organised by the thinktank Friends of Europe. Science Magazine reports on why we feel unhappy when we let our minds wander.Presented by Clive Cookson, with Andrew Jack in Brussels.Produced by LJ Filotrani Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this week's podcast: We talk biofuels with the new director of Purdue University's Energy Centre in America, Maureen McCann; we hear from Andrew Jack in Brazil about the production of anti-snake venom in horses and the state of the pharmaceutical sector, and we hear from an engineering professor, Steve Wereley and his involvement in estimating the amount of oil leaking from the broken BP pipe in April.Science Magazine reports on how flowering plants avoid fertilising themselves.Presented by Clive Cookson with Diana Garnham in the studio and Andrew Jack in Brazil.Produced by LJ Filotrani Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this week's podcast: We hear from South Africa's science minister Naledi Pandor about why her country should host the world's biggest radio telescope. Science Magazine reports on the proliferation of planets around other stars and we have guest Robert Massey, deputy executive secretary of the Royal Astronomical Society to join our discussion on space and astronomy. Presented by Clive Cookson with Diana Garnham and Andrew Jack in the studio.Produced by LJ Filotrani Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this week's podcast: Clive Cookson joins us from Brussels to tell us about a European parliament hearing on research infrastructure. We then discuss the importance of university education in preparing our scientists of the future and Science Magazine reports on the environment and disease risks.Presented by Andrew Jack with Clive Cookson in Brussels and Diana Garnham in the studio.Produced by LJ Filotrani Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In the podcast this week: We talk to Andre Geim, the latest Nobel prizewinner in physics about his discovery of graphene, flying frogs, the importance of humour in science and the subject of funding. We also hear from US Food and Drug Administration commissioner Margaret Hamburg about science and regulation. Science Mag reports on how practising for tests and exams improves memory and learning.Presented by Clive Cookson with Andrew Jack and Diana Garnham in the studio.Produced by LJ Filotrani Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week we take a look at the ethics and regulation of online healthcare, including consumer genetic testing, with our studio guest Hugh Whittall, chief executive of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics, with Science Magazine giving us the US perspective.Also in the studio is regular guest Diana Garnham of the Science Council with her take on the Browne review of university funding, and Clive Cookson hears about the Blue Brain project in Switzerland which is attempting to reverse-engineer the mammalian brain, in order to understand brain function and dysfunction through detailed simulations.FT Science is presented this week by Andrew Jack and produced by Emily Cadman Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this week’s podcast, we roam from the Nobel prize awards in Stockholm and the challenge of commercialising technology, to science in emerging markets, and the political appetite for science spending.Our guest in the studio is David Kelly, a biotech entrepreneur and venture capitalist, who discusses the role of venture capital in science, and one of his new projects in India which attempts to use consultants’ time more efficiently. And our regular contributor Diana Garnham, CEO of the Science Council, takes the temperature at the Conservative Party conference. Additionally, we hear from Science Magazine about the latest developments in America on stem cell research funding. FT Science this week is presented by Andrew Jack and produced by Emily Cadman. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this week podcast: We talk to author of The Time Traveller's Wife, Audrey Niffenegger about dreaming and string theory, we discuss the latest exhibition on climate change at the Science Museum with its director Chris Rapley, we find out who the winners of the prestigious medical research awards, the Lasker Prize, are and we listen to Science Magazine's report on the bugs eating hydrocarbons from the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.Presented by Clive Cookson with studio guests Chris Rapley, director of the Science Museum and Felix Greaves, a public health scientist who has been interning with the FT for the past few weeks.Thanks to author Audrey Niffenegger and Maria Freire from the Lasker Prize.Produced by LJ Filotrani Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this week’s podcast: We are live in Birmingham at one of Europe’s largest scientific gatherings – the British Science Festival. We talk to Lord David Sainsbury, president of the British Science Association, which organises the festival and Professor of psychology at Exeter University, Alex Haslam, about the importance of continuing to fund research in the UK, public engagement with science and encouraging good leaders within the scientific community.Science Magazine reports on how to stop climate change.Presented by Clive CooksonProduced by LJ Filotrani Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this week's podcast: We are joined by leading physicist Sir Peter Knight who talks about his research into quantum optics and photosynthesis. We hear from author Joanna Kavenna about her search for truth and her fascination with scientists and Science Mag reports on an online experiment into how social networks affect the spread of behaviour.Presented by Clive Cookson, with the FT's pharmaceuticals correspondent Andrew Jack and Diana Garnham, CEO of the Science Council.Produced by LJ Filotrani Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this week's podcast: We introduce a new feature to the podcast, that of how literature and the arts are influenced by science and scientists. We start this week by hearing from novelist AS Byatt about her passion for science and how this passion permeates her writing. Guest in the studio is materials scientist Mark Miodownik, who has just been named this year's RI Christmas lecturer. He talks about scale and self-healing materials. Science Mag's contribution is all about ants and epigenetics.Presented by Clive Cookson, with Diana GarnhamProduced by LJ Filotrani Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.