Mutant

Society and culture have a large impact on film. This can be seen most clearly in Science Fiction and Horror Films. Films are often based on real-life events, or in some cases, fears. Two examples of this are Invasion of the Body Snatchers and Texas Chainsaw Massacre. The Cold War and fear of the spread of Communism led to the creation of films such as Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Psycho and Texas Chainsaw Massacre were both based on the crimes of Ed Gein. Some common themes in these…

Magnesium ion is required for generating Ser102 nucleophile Stec et al. suggested a reaction mechanism involving three metal ions, which is modified from the two metal ion catalysis theory proposed by Kim and Wyckoff (16). As mentioned, Ser102 acts as a nucleophile and facilitates the departure of an alcohol group during the first step of this reaction. In order for this occur, Ser102 has to be deprotonated. X-ray crystallography has been used to examine the mechanism of alkaline phosphatase.…

The core layer of Legos satisfies the desire for knowledge and assists in their learning. Children are curious and learn best through hands on interaction. The use of Legos providing a more enjoyable way to learn concepts and skills, encourage children to explore and discover by being creative and experimenting with the building blocks. The second layer, the actual product, would just be the physical product of the Legos, which consists of thousands of little plastic brick pieces that end up…

But I feel like most people read "GMO" and a mental subroutine is triggered which equates the acronym with something that can be potentially much worse. GMO ends up sounding like the stuff that turned the regular-sewer-turtles into the Teenaged Mutant Ninja Turtles. I know this subject has been done to death, making fun of health food nuts and their insistence on eating only foods that could have been found…

Potter’s face went slack, morphing into a defensive glare which burned Draco with ire, “So still all blood purity with you then? I can’t say I’m disappointed Malfoy. I thought you’d changed.” He had changed damn it! How could he believe in blood purity when one of the brightest witches of our age, and perhaps all time was a muggleborn? “Just a faux pas! I haven’t believed in blood purity for years now. My parents just brought me up that way! I didn’t know any better.” Potter looked soft now as…

Let's be honest right away. I'm not a huge Cronenberg fan. I've seen most of his movies and more often than not, I don't end up loving them. That qualification right there probably puts me out of the running for giving a valid opinion on Dead Ringers. Nevertheless, this is my site and I can do what I want! First things first, I appreciate the hard work put into the Blu-ray from Scream Factory, but unfortunately, I did not enjoy the movie itself. If you want to read more (I forgive you if you…

Millions of people all over the planet suffer from poverty and starvation. One very interesting but experimental solution to the problem of world hunger is genetically engineered food. The process involves the crossbreeding of crops in a laboratory with species that are not plant like. Say for example, that a scientist crossed a fish and a potato. The diversity of this gene mixture is supposed to give this hybrid crop special characteristics like resistance to disease, the ability to deal with…

for 30 seconds, coiled for 20 seconds and wiggled for 10 seconds, the last one did not move the whole time. Overall, the worms in plate C did not move much, if hardly at all. The movement of the wild type worms differed from the movement of the two mutant strains of worms as the wild type moved faster and could use most of their body unlike the defect ones which moved lethargically and struggled to move at all. Type B worms were the ones that had a strain defect in synaptic vesicle transport.…

Inactivating mutations of the p53 gene are found in almost all tumors. Furthermore, if a human has even one mutant copy of the gene at birth, they have a 50% chance of cancer by age 30 (compared to a chance of 1% for individuals with two working copies) (Lustbader et al 1992). The protein works by binding to a specific site on DNA, which leads to the expression…

Wolfram syndrome (WS) is a rare, single-gene disease with an autosomal recessive pattern of inheritance. Within the first ten years, most patients experience diabetes mellitus and optic atrophy, followed by diabetes insipidus, sensorineural deafness and psychiatric disorders in the next decade [1]. The most common type is Wolfram syndrome type 1 (WS-1) which results from mutations in the WFS1 gene. Wolfram syndrome type 2 (WS-2) is linked to mutations in the CISD2 gene although its protein…