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Cure from the crypt / produced by Naomi Lumsdaine.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Quantum
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Spigelman, Mark.
- Gene therapy.
- Mummies--Hungary.
- Mummies.
- Tuberculosis--Genetic aspects.
- Tuberculosis.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (26 min.)
- Place of Publication:
- Sydney, New South Wales : ABC Commercial, 2013.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Original language in English.
- Summary:
- When a crypt containing 200 extraordinarily preserved bodies was discovered in 1994 in the Hungarian town of Vac, it caught the interest of a scientist fighting tuberculosis on the other side of the globe. This program presents the fascinating story of Professor Mark Spigelman, an Australian surgeon turned archaeologist who is using ancient DNA to contend with the biggest bacterial killer in the world today. In what many call the post-antibiotic era, Spigelman's unique genetic research has yielded encouraging results: all the tubercular mummies were missing a TB-resistant gene in their genome; those mummies without TB had the gene.
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed July 10, 2014).
- OCLC:
- 885256355
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