Good news for the many people who suffer from diabetes, as researchers from Novo Nordisk A/S, the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, and Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center (iNANO) at Aarhus University have taken some important steps together to understand and thus improve the effect of insulin in the body.

Synthetic biology strives to achieve robust control of biological processes in order to create designer organisms for a variety of industrial, diagnostic, and therapeutic applications. Researchers at the iNANO center of Aarhus University have developed RNA origami sponges and CRISPR-based regulators for advanced genetic control of enzymatic pathways in microorganisms to create a cheaper and more sustainable production of valuable biochemicals.

Professor Troels Skrydstrup is chosen as this month's researcher by the Carlsberg Foundation where journalist Nynne Bjerre Christensen is the host. Listen to and read about how Skrydstrup and his research group is work on breaking down and reusing otherwise 'non-recyclable' plastic types used for wind turbine blades. (In Danish)