BodyLab

Our BodyLab podcast, hosted by Clare Blake, showcases the science - and the scientists - behind our understanding of healthy minds and bodies.

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Our ‘must-listen to’ episodes run for around 20-25 minutes each. Listen now or download episodes to listen to at your convenience using the players below. Whether you’re listening on the run or relaxing in your favourite space, we hope you enjoy meeting our researchers.

BodyLab

Recent episodes

Lifesaving cell therapy: Bringing hope to immunocompromised Australians

Depression discovery brings fresh hope for melancholia sufferers

Tiny hearts to one day help repair heart disease damage

Earlier testing for pancreatic and ovarian cancer

A third of melanomas in routine skin checks may not be harmful

Genes and mental illness: The potential of genetic discoveries to deliver better treatments

The liver: Its super power, its Achilles heel and the science on liver detoxing

How does chronic Graft-Versus-Host-Disease impact the brain?

A conversation with philanthropist and entrepreneur Clive Berghofer AM

Breast cancer gene research helping avoid unnecessary preventive mastectomies

New culprit found to cause shellfish allergy

How Australia is helping to fight for a sunbed ban in England

Discovering new anti-malaria drugs to treat one of the world's biggest health problems

Eye melanoma: Cracking the code of a difficult-to-detect cancer

Healing the gut with faecal transfers

How exercise can treat mental health

Bowel cancer: Tailoring treatment for better outcomes

OCD: How a pacemaker for the brain is delivering life-changing results

Lupus: Science behind the first new treatment in 50 years

New weapon to fight brain cancer

Multiple Sclerosis off-the-shelf treatment coming soon

Japanese Encephalitis explained: Its symptoms and how it spreads

Genetic discovery could unlock better treatment for depression

Can a monthly dose of vitamin D help you live longer?

Climate anxiety and its effect on children

Personality and mental health: Genetic or environmental?

Allergies and Inflammation: What is your gut telling you?

Women's cancers: Can you change your risk?

Forgetful — or early-stage dementia?

Sun safety, sunscreen and skin cancer: Sorting fact from fiction

Iron: The most under-appreciated mineral in the body?

Cancer: What you can do to minimise your risk

Anxiety and Depression: How far have we come?

COVID-19: Nearly one year on what do we know?

Vitamin supplements: Do we really need them?

Asthma & AIP2: The new protein designed to reset the immune system

The mission to eliminate a deadly parasitic worm disease endemic to Australia

Important findings for fertility thanks to non-identical twins

How babies can now tell us their exact brain age to aid critical care

Australia's population diversity may be helping to save our skin