Resident evil (BIOSHOCK): Fiction for how long?

India
March 6, 2009 9:30pm CST
I was doing some research work on Gene therapy for my class project. I found out pretty interesting stories. I read journals and case histories. In gene therapy, scientist try to replace the diesease causing gene with a good one using a virus.......It was tried on a person named Jesse gelsinger. Gelsinger died four days after the insertion of virus due to multiple organ failure. Ofcourse there have been some successful cases too. But many movies like the resident evil series has tried to show what could happen when we try such a thing. Still shoul we try this. People line up in front of the institutes to give themselves as a subject for this experimentation because of the big bucks. This is pretty much scary. But gene therapy gives us hope to cure HIV... My point is-"Shouldn't the experiments with this kind of potential be made more public?"
1 response
@eoeoeo (125)
• United States
8 Mar 09
Woah... I didn't know that. Yeah it should be made more public? I think it'll start to become reaching major headlines when the technique is perfected. I don't really know but I think gene therapy or anything relating to gene modification is still a brand new frontier to be explored. Their coming up with new gene data by the minute, mapping the human genome. Something like Bioshock would be scary... but it was a fun game. :D
• India
8 Mar 09
We watch the movie and play the game thinking "where the hell he got the concept for the story. The story is insane....out of the world".......turned out that he got it from real life