{"id":99680,"date":"2019-12-12T14:44:33","date_gmt":"2019-12-12T22:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/viewpoint-rampage-movie-offers-twisted-take-on-crispr-gene-editing"},"modified":"2019-12-12T14:44:33","modified_gmt":"2019-12-12T22:44:33","slug":"viewpoint-rampage-movie-offers-twisted-take-on-crispr-gene-editing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/viewpoint-rampage-movie-offers-twisted-take-on-crispr-gene-editing","title":{"rendered":"Viewpoint: Rampage movie offers twisted take on CRISPR gene editing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/viewpoint-rampage-movie-offers-twisted-take-on-crispr-gene-editing.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Is a film based on a video game with fleeting mentions of a biotech buzzword compelling sci-fi? No. But I liked <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt2231461\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow external noopener noreferrer\">Rampage<\/a><\/em> anyway.<\/p>\n<p>The use of CRISPR to edit genes is perhaps the only novel plot point in this latest monster movie. An evil head of a biotech company subverts a scientist\u2019s work to fashion a bioweapon that revs up the growth hormone gene, and more, in three unfortunate animals. Cue Godzilla, King Kong, and the beast in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0139414\/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow external noopener noreferrer\">Lake Placid<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>But the screenwriters seem to confuse gene editing with an infectious bioweapon, like anthrax. The tagline at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt2231461\/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow external noopener noreferrer\">IMDb<\/a> reveals the befuddlement: \u201cWhen three different animals become infected with a dangerous pathogen, a primatologist and a geneticist team up to stop them from destroying Chicago.\u201d Infectious disease, genetic modification, or both?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is a film based on a video game with fleeting mentions of a biotech buzzword compelling sci-fi? No. But I liked Rampage anyway. The use of CRISPR to edit genes is perhaps the only novel plot point in this latest monster movie. An evil head of a biotech company subverts a scientist\u2019s work to fashion [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,1509,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-entertainment","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}