The Solutionists, with Mark Scott

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Could deadly cobras help us end chronic pain?

July 28, 2026

Professor Greg Neely says pain is a good thing. This might worry you when you find out he’s studying some of the deadliest snakes on the planet, but it’s all about trying to understand pain as a mechanism – and Greg’s long-term goal is to address chronic pain, which afflicts more than one billion people. After studying infectious disease at the start of his career, Greg’s been obsessed with pain as the body’s first immune response, but pain is poorly unders...

How much of ageing is actually in our control?

July 14, 2026

We’re told to eat better, sleep more, train our bodies and our brains — all in the name of ageing well.   But how much of that advice is actually backed by science? How might we all live – and stay – well, for longer, at any stage of life? And how much of ageing is really up to us?  Researcher Gilbert Knaggs, neuroscientist Eleanor Drummond, and clinician Olivier Piguet join together to demystify the science from the pseudos...

From breakthrough to bedside – How medical discoveries make their way to us.

June 02, 2026

What if the cure everyone’s waiting for already exists — but patients can’t access it?  With AI transforming medicine, breakthroughs are no longer science fiction. They’re happening now. But innovation alone isn’t enough. So how do discoveries escape the lab to reach patients?   Leading researchers Michael Bowen, Victoria Cogger and Chenyu Tim Wang share their medical moonshots in novel therapeutics and nanomedici...