#DREN SPLICE DNA MOVIE#

#DREN SPLICE DNA MOVIE#

Without giving too much more away, let’s just say that the movie ends on a decidedly sober note after a dramatic climax. His concerns prove well-founded when Dren, whose unstable DNA causes her to grow at an extremely accelerated clip, quickly becomes too much for both of them to handle, and their once close relationship begins to deteriorate as a result. From the start, Nicoli is much more wary of the experiment, both for legal and moral reasons, and only reluctantly accedes to Kast’s entreaties after she convinces him that it could lead to the discovery of new, life-saving compounds. Angered by the setback and determined to carry their ultimate ambition-producing a viable human-animal hybrid-to fruition, Clive and Nicoli successfully combine human DNA with that of an amphibian and use it to secretly bring “Dren” (nerd backward) to life. In short, Clive Nicoli (Adrien Brody) and Elsa Kast (Sarah Polley) decide to take matters into their own hands when their higher ups decide to shutdown their lab’s genetic engineering experiments in order to focus on drug research and development. But creating human-animal hybrids… well, that’s a different story entirely, and that is the ethically charged ground that “Splice” uncompromisingly trods on. Even combining the DNA from two separate species to generate animal hybrids (see: mule or liger) is almost commonplace.

More recently, researchers have been using mice as models of genetic engineering to study and treat human diseases by isolating and tweaking specific genes. In real life, for instance, scientists have been inserting human genes in bacteria to produce insulin for years. While not necessarily universally embraced by the public at large, this method has been in use for a while and is therefore not exactly controversial. The movie’s title, of course, refers to the technique of “gene splicing,” in which segments of different organisms’ DNA, their genes, are deliberately shunted together and/or moved around to alter their genomes and impart new traits.

,” a new science fiction/horror mash-up starring Adrien Brody and Sarah Polley as two young, hotshot biologists who create a human-animal hybrid, with-wait for it-unfortunate consequences.

If you had the tools to manipulate DNA and produce new hybrid species in order to obtain potentially life-saving drugs, would you do it? This question lies at the core of “ Splice

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