GATTACA - Promises of Gene Therapy for Diseases
















Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Problems of Being Invisible and How It Leads to Power Abuse.

Image
    WHAT IF YOU COULD BECOME INVISIBLE? What if we could become invisible? We can do anything we want without any consequences. Even if they do find who it was, how are they going to catch us? Will they run around the city till they somehow crash into us and catch us, which seems rather time-consuming or impossible, right? But what if we become invisible one day, all the things we could do, we can be a superhero or a criminal mastermind, or at least that is what people would say. Other than that there is still an issue you won’t be able to interact with people or talk to anyone because who would want to talk to someone that they can’t even see? But what if there was a way to become visible again, as shown in The Hollow Man how they reversed the gorilla back to being visible but wasn’t that painful? Can you really endure all that pain just to become visible again? Even the scientist in the movie couldn’t endure all that pain and was about to die.         ...
Read more

World War Z: The Science of Zombification

Image
By Syed Mohammad Raza Hamdani  The Science of Zombification If you were to ask an accountant or someone in your family if a zombie apocalypse can ever occur they would probably say no or laugh at the question, but a bio-physicist might have a different response. In this technological age, zombie apocalyptic movies and video games are around every corner. If you, like me, have ever wondered if a zombie apocalypse can ever become a reality then you’re at the right place: today we’ll scientifically analyze how realistic the portrayal of a zombie apocalypse is in the Brad Pitt blockbuster hit, World War Z. In general, let’s start with what we know about the zombies in the movie: apparently, the ‘Zekes’ don’t need to consume food or water as they don’t eat their prey, they rather just bite them and move on. Moreover, the zombie bite victim loses control of their bodies and mind in a minimum of 12 seconds, the zombies rely on sound as their biggest trigger yet their host's other senses ...
Read more

Can Animals really change their sex just like in the movie Splice?

Image
By Abira Jeoffrey Photo: Abira Jeoffrey/ “Splice” Is sex always determined by genetics and fixed from birth in animals? In the movie Splice, Fred and Ginger were two creatures of the opposite sex who engage in a delicate mating ritual known as imprinting. They both contain genes from various creatures including but not limited to: a horse, a bird, a fish, and a kangaroo, and some kind of plant, and that the pair produced some enteric proteins that are medicinal to livestock. Enteric means “relating to the intestines”. Later on in the movie, they both killed each other as Ginger's sex changes from a female to a male. So it is really possible to change sex in animals? The answer to this interesting question is, Yes!. When animals are born in this world, it is assumed that genes determine whether it is a male or female. However, there exist other factors such as the environment and the temperature that can change the sex of some animals. Do you want to know which animals can change th...
Read more