26 August 2008
Natalie Borg interview. Download audio interview here (mp3, 1.9MB) As a child, Natalie Borg tried to grow crystals. Two decades on, she is still growing crystals. But now she is analysing them with synchrotron light, to figure out how our bodies mount a rapid defence when we are attacked by viruses. “The immune system is [...]
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26 August 2008
Erika Cretney is fascinated by the human immune system. “As we find out more about how it works, it seems to grow in complexity,” she says. “I’m not sure that we’ll ever know everything about it.” Her interest lies in ferreting out the function of genes, proteins and cell types in the immune system, and [...]
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