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• Caffeine (3)
  • How does caffeine affect you?
  • What are stimulants?
  • What is a drug?
• Cancer (25)
  • Are chromosomes linked to cancer?
  • Can cancer be prevented?
  • Can understanding genes help?
  • Could treatments boost the immune system?
  • Could tumours be 'starved'?
  • Creature clues?
  • Does diet matter?
  • Future treatments?
  • How can viruses cause cancer?
  • How do healthy cells become cancerous?
  • How does cancer begin?
  • How is cancer detected?
  • How is cancer treated?
  • Is cancer inherited?
  • What are the dangers of radiation?
  • What causes cancer?
  • What happens in cancer?
  • What happens when apoptosis goes wrong?
  • What happens when cell division goes wrong?
  • What is AIDS?
  • What is cancer?
  • What will mapping the epigenome show us?
  • What’s the point of a biobank?
  • What's the problem with smoking?
  • Which genes have been associated with cancer?
• Cannabis (1)
  • Altering your mind?
• Carbohydrates (4)
  • What are the finishing touches?
  • What do carbohydrates do for you?
  • What do lipids do for you?
  • What is a cell made of?
• CAT scans (3)
  • Did X-rays help?
  • How can we image the brain?
  • What are CAT scans?
• Cell cycle (3)
  • How do cells grow and divide?
  • What controls the cell cycle?
  • What happens when cell division goes wrong?
• Cell death (9)
  • Can understanding genes help?
  • How do cells die?
  • How often are your cells replaced?
  • What happens during apoptosis?
  • What happens when apoptosis goes wrong?
  • What makes you age?
  • What triggers apoptosis?
  • Why do cells kill themselves?
  • Why is apoptosis important?
• Cell division (8)
  • Are chromosomes linked to cancer?
  • Do mistakes matter?
  • How do cells grow and divide?
  • How does the DNA code mutate?
  • What controls the cell cycle?
  • What do your cells do?
  • What happens inside the cell?
  • What happens when cell division goes wrong?
• Cells (31)
  • Front or back?
  • How are genes regulated?
  • How are proteins made?
  • How can cells be seen?
  • How do cells recognise each other?
  • How do healthy cells become cancerous?
  • How do scientists look at chromosomes?
  • How do you become you?
  • How do your cells recognise invaders?
  • How does a cell know how old it is?
  • How does cancer begin?
  • How does life begin?
  • How does the embryo develop?
  • How is the body shaped?
  • How often are your cells replaced?
  • What causes cancer?
  • What do carbohydrates do for you?
  • What do your cells do?
  • What happens in cancer?
  • What happens in week 1?
  • What happens in week 2?
  • What happens in week 3?
  • What happens inside the cell?
  • What is a cell made of?
  • What is ageing?
  • What is cancer?
  • What is the cell's instruction manual?
  • What makes you age?
  • Where did you come from?
  • Why do cells differ?
  • Your body
• Cervical cancer (3)
  • How can viruses cause cancer?
  • How is cancer detected?
  • Vaccines for cancer?
• Children (5)
  • Child of the Nineties?
  • How does experience help?
  • How long will you live?
  • Use them or lose them?
  • Why is vaccination important?
• Chimpanzees (3)
  • How many genes do you have?
  • What are our closest animal relatives?
  • Why is studying animal genes useful?
• Chromosomes (13)
  • Are chromosomes linked to cancer?
  • Boy or girl?
  • How are chromosomes ‘painted’?
  • How do scientists look at chromosomes?
  • How does FISH work?
  • How many chromosomes?
  • How was it done?
  • Hunting for a gene?
  • The end of men?
  • What are chromosomal conditions?
  • What sex?
  • Which genes influence your sex?
  • X or Y sperm?
• CJD (1)
  • What is Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease?
• Cocaine (2)
  • What are stimulants?
  • What is cocaine?
• Code (7)
  • Do mistakes matter?
  • How are proteins made?
  • How did scientists read genes?
  • How does the DNA code mutate?
  • How is DNA coded?
  • What causes gene mutations?
  • What did the Human Genome Project find?
• Colon cancer (1)
  • Which genes have been associated with cancer?
• Colour blindness (1)
  • What is colour blindness?
• Consciousness (2)
  • Can scientists tell if someone is conscious?
  • What is consciousness?
• Cortex (10)
  • How did your neurons form?
  • How do you create memories?
  • How do you put information together?
  • How do you see?
  • How do you understand words?
  • What are the parts of your brain?
  • What is Broca’s area?
  • What is your ‘muscle map’?
  • What makes the human brain unique?
  • Where do you store long-term memories?
• Crime (3)
  • What do DNA profiles show?
  • What is DNA profiling?
  • What is the DNA database?
• Criminality (1)
  • What do your genes do?
• Cystic fibrosis (2)
  • What causes genetic conditions?
  • What is cystic fibrosis?