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Radio waves can tune up bacteria to become life-saving medicines. Scientists from Australia and the United States have found a new way to alter the DNA of bacterial cells – a process used to make many vital medicines including insulin – much more efficiently than standard industry techniques.
Scientists from Australia and the United States have found a new way to alter the DNA of bacterial cells to create new medicines.
Radio frequencies can be used to carry everything from mobile phone and satellite data to the energy needed to manipulate bacterial cells in a lab. This latest study published in the high-impact journal Nano Letters takes that work a step further by showing the method can be used to safely deliver DNA. The team’s results showed the process to be highly efficient: 91% of the E. coli cells took on the new DNA after exposure to 18GHz radio waves for three minutes.
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