INTERVIEWS

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

"If a salamander can do it, why can't we?"

Bioengineering pioneer Dr Anthony Atala talks to Tom Ireland about regenerating human tissue in the lab and 3D printing organs

An evening with Alec Jeffreys

The inventor of DNA fingerprinting speaks to Alison Woollard about the scientists who inspired him and the 'eureka moment' that revolutionised forensic science

For the Greater Good

Tom Ireland talks to Deborah Gordon, the first biologist to witness ant colonies' entire life histories – from formation, to reproduction and death – play out over decades in the wild