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REAL SPILL EPISODE 21: IS IT IN A MANS DNA TO CHEAT?
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All kinds of dna repair mechanism-animation

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DNA PROJECT - Overview
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MB lecture 10-16 making DNA copies

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Contact: Alex Evilevitch alex.evilevitch@biochemistry.lu.se 412-482-2301 Lund University @lunduniversity

Viruses can convert their DNA from solid to fluid form, which explains how viruses manage to eject DNA into the cells of their victims. This has been shown in two new studies carried out by Lund University in Sweden.

Both research studies are about the same discovery made for two different viruses, namely that viruses can convert their DNA to liquid form at the moment of infection. Thanks to this conversion, the virus can more easily transfer its DNA into the cells of its victim, which thus become infected. One of the studies investigated the herpes virus, which infects humans.

"Our results explain the mechanism behind herpes infection by showing how the DNA of the virus enters the cell", said Alex Evilevitch, a researcher in biochemistry and biophysics at Lund University and Carnegie Mellon University.

Evilevitch stated that the discovery was surprising. No one was previously aware of the 'phase transition' from solid to fluid form in virus DNA. The phase transition for the studied herpes virus is temperature-dependent and takes place at 37C, which is a direct adaptation to human body temperature. Evilevitch hopes that the research findings will lead to a new type of medicine that targets the phase transition for virus DNA, which could then reduce the infection capability and limit the spread of the virus.

"A drug of this type affects the physical properties of the virus's DNA, which means that the drug can resist the virus's mutations", said Alex Evilevitch.

The second study that Evilevitch and his colleagues have published recently is about bacteriophages, i.e. viruses that infect bacteria, in this case E coli bacteria in the human gastrointestinal tract. The results show that this virus also has the ability to convert its DNA from solid to fluid form. As with the herpes virus, the phase transition takes place at 37C, i.e. adapted to human body temperature.

These two virus types, bacteriophages and the herpes virus, separated at an early stage in evolution, several billion years ago. The fact that they both demonstrate the same ability to convert their DNA in order to facilitate infection indicates that this could be a general mechanism found in many types of virus.

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An Arlington man has been sentenced to 50 years in prison for kidnapping and raping a 19-year-old woman at gunpoint a decade ago.

The case went cold for years until DNA evidence tied 56-year-old Charles Green to the crime, according to the Tarrant County district attorney's office.

"This defendant walked the same streets as his victim for 10 years," prosecutor Kim D'Avignon said. "Now, thanks to DNA, the hard work of the Pantego Police Department, and this Judge's sentence, he will never walk the streets again."

Green was convicted by a jury in April and sentenced Friday evening by Judge Charles Bleil. He must serve 25 years in prison before he is eligible for parole.

The crime occurred in 2004 when Green grabbed the woman as she left an auto parts store in Pantego. He then forced her into her car, shoved a gun to her side and got behind the wheel.

The woman offered Green her car and purse, but he said he "just wanted a ride." Instead he drove her around and asked her personal information before covering her eyes with a wool cap. He then pulled over and raped her at gunpoint.

Green released the woman in East Fort Worth, telling her, "Don't let this affect your life," and she drove herself to an Arlington hospital.

Eight years after the rape, Pantego police identified Green as the assailant based on DNA evidence collected from the victim the day she was raped. She then picked Green out of a photo lineup.

At trial, prosecutors presented evidence that Green committed other sex offenses, including the molestation of a child under the age of 13, which he confessed to.

Green testified in his own defense and denied committing other offenses. He blamed the 2004 rape on his heavy drug use at the time.

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HARTFORD -- DNA from accused murderer Carl "Hood" Small was found in the SUV of slain bank teller Christopher Donato, a forensic scientist testified Monday.

Nicholas Yang, a forensic science examiner at the state police crime lab, said Small is a contributor to the DNA found in blood on the SUV's steering wheel and driver's side door. The SUV was missing when Donato was found fatally stabbed in his Prospect Street apartment on June 18, 2012. It was later found near a Vine Street apartment where Small, of Bloomfield, used to stay.

Monday was the fourth day of testimony. Young was one of a long line of forensic scientists to testify in Superior Court about evidence found in Donato's apartment, the SUV and in the Vine Street apartment.

Yang also testified that Small cannot be eliminated as a possible contributor to DNA found on the handle of a mop that police said was used in an attempt to clean up the bloody scene.

But Yang said there was insufficient information to conclude that Small's DNA was on other items gathered during the investigation, such as the knife that police believe is the murder weapon.

Check back for more information about the Monday's testimony.

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