A discovery that could lead to a new cancer therapy and a look ahead to our big event on 9-10 May. (Extract 1 of 4 from the Imperial College Podcast 22 April 2015)

News: T cells and the Imperial Festival 

Immune cells can fuse together to form giant cells with many nuclei. Dr Jacques Behmoaras is investigating why this happens and how these cells are involved in osteoporosis. (Extract 2 of 4 from the Imperial College Podcast 25 March 2014)

Bone-eating giants 

MICHAEL LEVITT

Professor Michael Levitt winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry talks about the impact of computing power on the progress of modern biology

Ernst Chain lecture 2014: Professor Michael Levitt                Modelling the molecules of life

Professor Jane Davies gives her inaugural lecture

Bugs, drugs and genes: seeking new treatments for cystic fibrosis

Gareth Mitchell looks down the microsope at the 2014 Imperial Festival to find what enables bacteria to swim. (Podcast 21 May, extract 4/4)

Finding out how bacteria swim

Nobel laureate Professor Elizabeth Blackburn, who delivered this year’s Schrodinger lecture at Imperial, explains how our chromosomes are worn down as we age. (Extract 2 of 4 from the Imperial College Podcast 20 November 2013)

Talking telomeres

The winners of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine helped us understand how materials are packaged and transported in cells, as Dr Anita Hall (Life Sciences) explains. (Extract 3 of 3 from the Imperial Podcast 30 October 2013)

Vesicle traffic

A tale of stem cells, regenerative pharmacology and bone marrow biology from Professor Sara Rankin.

Body heal thyself

Discover how the health of eggs and early embryos affect the future baby, child and adult. Professor Kate Hardy's inaugural lecture. Recorded on 20 June 2012

A good start in life: go to work on an egg

Imperial's Professor Gerard Bishop and University of Nottingham's Graham Seymour talk about the publication of the tomato genome and what this means for the future of this important fruit crop.

Scientists harvest information about tomato genome

The Cell

NK cell proteins are essential to detecting the diseased cells like cancers. Here they organise into a ring within which 'killing' granules are delivered to the diseased cell. Narration by Dr Alice Brown, movie compiled by Warwick Bromley.

High-resolution microscope movie - a Natural Killer (NK) white blood cell contacts a diseased cell

Research from Imperial College London has uncovered the mechanism that helps yeast cells attach to human cells, often causing unpleasant fungal infections. This new information could lead scientists to develop new anti-fungal medicines

Dr Ernesto Cota explains how the Als adhesin molecule helps yeasts infect human tissue

Sir Paul Nurse presents this lecture as part of the Imperial College London Kohn Lecture Series

Kohn lecture 2010 - Cell cycle control 

Professor Neil Fairweather and Dr Kate Brown talk about how they produced the first ever 3D image of a disease-causing Clostridium difficile toxin

First ever 3D image of superbug toxin revealed in Imperial research

Video showing a natural killer (NK) cell pulling in a tumour-like cell using a membrane nanotube. These nanotubes help NK cells kill dangerous cells.

Immune cell uses bungee of death to capture tumour cell

Calcium transients in isolated human ES cell-derived cardiomyocytes (demonstrated by Fluo-4-labelled Calcium) video

Calcium transients in isolated human ES cell-derived cardiomyocytes (demonstrated by Fluo-4-labelled Calcium)

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