Lindau - it's a wrap Interviews with Nobel Prize winners can't fail to be interesting and over the last few weeks we have been bringing to your attention a collection of Nature Videos capturing some of the unique discussions between Nobel Laureates and students. These personal mentoring se...

Lindu wrap This year's meeting of Nobel Laureates was dedicated to Physiology and Medicine, as 24 Nobel Laureates gathered on the picturesque island of Lindau, ready to respond to the eager questions from early career scientists. Set on Lake Constance, the meeting provided a rare chance fo...

Geneticist Oliver Smithies is a toolmaker. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2007 for discoveries that led to the development of knockout mice. Early-career scientist Diego Bohórquez uses mouse models to understand how our gut regulates appetite. He has wanted to meet Smi...

In this last of five Nature Videos from this year's Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting on Physiology and Medicine Nobel laureate Oliver Smithies talks with Diego Bohórquez from Duke University (USA) about being hungry for knowledge. ...

Stem cells The Spoonful of Medicine Blog this week reported that researchers in New York have succeeded where the disgraced South Korean Hwang Woo-suk failed. They have successfully derived the world's first stem cells from a cloned human embryo. But, notably, the new stem cells are not s...

Biologist Elizabeth Blackburn grew up in Hobart on the Australian island of Tasmania. It was a long journey from there to a Nobel prize and the lab she runs at the University of California in San Francisco.Malaria researcher Clare Smith, an early-career scientist who attended this year's Lindau...

Camelia-Lucia Cimpianu, an early-career scientist who attended the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting this summer in Germany, is trying to decide between a career as a researcher or a practising doctor.In this film, she seeks advice from Nobel Laureate Ferid Murad who faced the same dilemma as a medical ...

Faster than the speed of light?Do you want to know what scientists really think about neutrinos travelling faster than the speed of light? A must for this week is to check out the Nature News Podcast. You can also find out how to measure happiness, how food puts flies in the mood ...

Storify crazy Over the last two weeks here on "Of Schemes and Memes, we have been beavering away crafting Storify storyboards, collating the tops tweets from two of the major events the nature.com Communities team are involved with organising. On Tuesday 20th, we hosted the fifth installme...

Storify crazy Over the last two weeks here on "Of Schemes and Memes, we have been beavering away crafting Storify storyboards, collating the tops tweets from two of the major events the nature.com Communities team are involved with organising. On Tuesday 20th, we hosted the fifth installme...