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Cancer cure, Strep A research and hopes for biodiversity

Editing DNA seems to have cured a teenager’s leukaemia

Base editing is a technique for substituting the building blocks of DNA. It has only been around for a few years, so its use to apparently cure cancer was all the more remarkable, as ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Health Correspondent James Gallagher tells us.

We take a trip down the river Wye with ecologist Steve Ormerod who tells us why the river is a microcosm for some of the global issues being discussed at the UN Biodiversity summit in Montreal. ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Environment Correspondent Victoria Gill gives us the latest on the state of negotiations there.

And the current surge in infections associated with the streptococcus bacteria has led to deaths in a few cases. It is usually a seasonal infection, worse in the spring. We ask microbiologist Dr Claire Turner from Sheffield University why we seem to be seeing a surge of infections now and her research on strep vaccine targets.

ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Inside Science is produced in collaboration with the Open University.

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Thu 15 Dec 2022 21:00

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