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30th Mar 2009

Artificial DNA and Treating TB


Ben Valsler
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This week, we find out how artificial DNA could tell us about the origins of life, discover a way to identify those most at risk of bowel cancer and explore a new treatment for TB.  Plus, we find out what happened this week in science history...

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It’s Alive – Artificial DNA

Scientists have turned the basic structure of DNA on its head: taking it from 4 bases to 12. This 12 base system has already been implemented in developing new forms of personalised medicine but now the researchers want to see if this more complex DNA can be self-sustaining. Fifty-six years ago,...

(c) Professor. Z. L. Wang and Dr. X. D. Wang, Georgia Institute of Technology

Truly Juicy Couture

Charging your mobile phone could be done just by waving your arms and legs about a bit, according to scientists in the US.  Zhong Lin Wang and colleagues have used millions of nanowires made from zinc oxide to generate electric currents from simple body movements, such as walking or even the fl...

(c) Cancer Research UK

Test to Identify Relatives at Risk

The key to treating cancer successfully is catching it as early as possible. This is particularly true in the case of bowel cancer, where around eight out of ten people will survive if their cancer is caught at an early stage, but sadly only about one in ten cancers are actually caught this early. ...

(c) Janice Carr

Structural studies shed light on TB treatments

Tuberculosis, or TB, is a growing problem around the world, and it's on the rise in Western countries as well as in the developing world – it's thought that someone somewhere is being infected with TB every single second. Now researchers in the US have made a discovery that could help scientists to ...


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This Week in Science History - The First Genetic Patent

This week in science history, in 1981, saw the issuing of a patent to for a genetically modified Pseudomonas bacterium that would eat up oil spills, the first patent of its kind. Sarah Castor-Perry explains more...




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