A Small Rampage Over STAT ' s Movie Piece

A movie opened this weekend which, by all prior evidence and new reviews, is unbelievably silly but destined to rake in the bucks. Rampage is very loosely - as if it could be another way - based on avideo arcade game. The original game ’s backstory had a mysterious ray transforming people into monsters, but the movie has changed that to CRISPR. So STAT had a piece which, to my great disappointment, gave the movie ’s science a near pass in a piece featuring two writers chatting . . (Note: this post has mild spoilers, though if you've seen the trailers they give almost all of this away).Read more »

Source: Omics! Omics! - April 14, 2018 Category: Bioinformatics Authors: Keith Robison Source Type: blogs