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• Achondroplasia (1)
  • What is achondroplasia?
• Addiction (10)
  • Are you happy?
  • How do you become you?
  • What are opiates?
  • What are stimulants?
  • What are the dangers of opiates?
  • What is addiction?
  • What is cocaine?
  • What makes drugs addictive?
  • What’s the problem with extreme emotions?
  • Why are some drugs addictive?
• Adolescence (4)
  • How changeable is your brain?
  • What goes on in a teenager’s brain?
  • What is Generalised Anxiety Disorder?
  • What is schizophrenia?
• Africa (2)
  • Evidence from bones?
  • One birthplace?
• Ageing (18)
  • Can hormones slow ageing?
  • Can you imagine losing your memory?
  • Can you prevent ageing?
  • Does your brain change when you're an adult?
  • How does a cell know how old it is?
  • How long will you live?
  • How much sleep do you need?
  • What damages your cells?
  • What happens as you age?
  • What is ageing?
  • What is Alzheimer’s disease?
  • What is Alzheimer’s disease?
  • What is Huntington’s disease?
  • What is Parkinson’s disease?
  • What is the cost of passing on genes?
  • Who's the oldest?
  • Why don't we live forever?
  • Will you live to reach 100?
• AIDS (5)
  • How can HIV transmission be prevented?
  • How does HIV affect the body?
  • How is AIDS treated?
  • What happens when apoptosis goes wrong?
  • What is AIDS?
• Alcohol (8)
  • Are you happy?
  • Can cancer be prevented?
  • Does diet matter?
  • How do scientists study genes and behaviour?
  • How does alcohol affect you?
  • What are sedatives?
  • What is a drug?
  • What is addiction?
• Alleles (3)
  • How are new alleles created?
  • How are you different?
  • Who do you share genes with?
• Allergic reaction (2)
  • Do you have an allergy?
  • What happens in an allergic reaction?
• Allergy (3)
  • Do you have an allergy?
  • What happens in an allergic reaction?
  • What is asthma?
• Alzheimer’s disease (6)
  • How can illness affect the brain?
  • How can the nervous system be damaged?
  • What happens when apoptosis goes wrong?
  • What happens when the brain's function declines?
  • What is Alzheimer’s disease?
  • What is Alzheimer’s disease?
• Amino acids (5)
  • How are proteins made?
  • How do cells make proteins?
  • What are proteins made of?
  • What are the finishing touches?
  • What is the cell's instruction manual?
• Amnesia (2)
  • What happens if you lose your short-term memory?
  • What is amnesia?
• Amphetamine (2)
  • What are amphetamines?
  • What are stimulants?
• Amygdala (2)
  • Are you scared?
  • What makes you angry?
• Ancestors (11)
  • All around the world?
  • Do you have a famous relative?
  • Do you have evolutionary leftovers?
  • Evidence from bones?
  • How are you different?
  • How can DNA trace large numbers of people?
  • How can we trace our ancestors?
  • One birthplace?
  • What are our closest animal relatives?
  • What was a Neanderthal?
  • Who were the first humans?
• Animals (23)
  • Could stem cells treat disease?
  • Creature clues?
  • Do you have ‘animal emotions'?
  • Do you have genes for a long life?
  • How are genes transferred?
  • How can a mouse help us understand our brains?
  • How can cells be seen?
  • How can human disease genes be studied?
  • How did humans start talking?
  • How does a species evolve?
  • How many genes do you have?
  • Medicines from sheep?
  • Spot the difference?
  • What are our closest animal relatives?
  • What can we find out from animals?
  • What causes extinction?
  • What is genetic engineering?
  • What is special about human language?
  • What makes the human brain unique?
  • Where did people once believe babies came from?
  • Who is Kanzi?
  • Why is apoptosis important?
  • Why is studying animal genes useful?
• Antibodies (3)
  • Could treatments boost the immune system?
  • How does breast milk protect babies?
  • What happens in an allergic reaction?
• Antigens (5)
  • How do cells recognise each other?
  • How do cells recognise each other?
  • What do carbohydrates do for you?
  • What is tricky about transplants and transfusions?
  • What is your blood group?
• Anxiety (8)
  • Could your fears ever be ‘unlearned’?
  • Dangerous knowledge?
  • How does alcohol affect you?
  • What are you scared of?
  • What is cocaine?
  • What is Generalised Anxiety Disorder?
  • What is panic disorder?
  • What’s the problem with extreme emotions?
• Apes (4)
  • Can apes learn language?
  • How did humans start talking?
  • What are our closest animal relatives?
  • Who is Kanzi?
• Apoptosis (7)
  • Connect or die?
  • How do cells die?
  • What happens during apoptosis?
  • What happens when apoptosis goes wrong?
  • What triggers apoptosis?
  • Why do cells kill themselves?
  • Why is apoptosis important?
• Archaeology (2)
  • Evidence from bones?
  • How can DNA trace large numbers of people?
• Arthritis (1)
  • What is autoimmunity?
• Aspirin (2)
  • How do painkillers work?
  • What is aspirin?
• Asthma (3)
  • How do genes affect your health?
  • How do scientists find disease genes?
  • What is asthma?
• Attention (2)
  • How do you put information together?
  • How do you select information?
• Autistic spectrum disorders (1)
  • How do you feel empathy?
• Autoimmunity (5)
  • How can HIV transmission be prevented?
  • How does HIV affect the body?
  • How is AIDS treated?
  • What is AIDS?
  • What is autoimmunity?
• Autonomic nervous system (2)
  • Fight or flight?
  • What does the autonomic nervous system do?