biology based films - biology based films (Jan/05/2007 )
hello all bioforum members and HAPPY NEW YEAR
I want to know that any one knows english films which are based on biology or biology related works.
as we see horror,dramatic ,action etc movies ,
is there existance of films which relates to our works.(cloning,recombinations etc)
i tried to explain my question. 
thanks to all.
The last one I saw was about a man working on bacteria responsable for meningitidis. He made a transgenic rat, resistant to this bacteria, but then it was a very aggressive rat. It managed to evade, and invaded Paris.
Usually it's always about a crazy scientist, making a mistake, trying to hide its mistake, and a lot of disaster happens.
i will very much thankfull if u also share name of films 
thanks missele 
houla, I don't remember the name. it was really a bad movy !
a better one was the Island.
guess you have seen it.
sorry i didn't
thanks for reply.
Does 'Naughty Professor' kind of movies qualify in this?
Hmmm...
Outbreak (1995) Directed by Wolfgang Petersen. Watched it when I was in high school. Don't recall any scene whereby cloning, pcr etc were shown.
Resident Evil (2002) Directed by Paul W.S. Anderson. Didn't show the process, only the aftermath.
CSI (Crime Scene Investigation) series. There's a few scene where Molecular Biology techniques were shown. Haha... I like the part when they did DNA sequencing for profiling. Unbelievable, I wonder if there's such a machine in existence.
Hmm... most movies regarding our field are great as movies, but don't really depict our real life in the lab and also the experiments we do. Even in news or during interviews, reporters will always want see the lab and take pictures later for publication or news transmission in TV. That's when us scientists will put on a show by pipetting coloured liquids (colourless liquids would have been too plain), switching on PCR machines, loading agarose gels for electrophoresis, loading H2O into sequencer etc.
If compared to movie and TV news, I'd prefer the latter because it's more 'real' than in movies.
Once I saw a movie where a guy trying to cloning some bug and he injected some blastocysts with a syringe by hand!!! 
I don't remember the name... 
I remember some movies, some good stories, like The Island, Mengele's Children (cloning Hitler 
) and some weird like GATACA.
And what about X-files! When I saw Scully making a DNA extraction, sequencing, isolation and cloning of a gene in a few hours, she become my hero
I would like to ask the same question of pfmdr but with books. Any suggestion?
The SciFi (Science Fiction) channel shown in the USA shows such movies many times.
I want to know that any one knows english films which are based on biology or biology related works.
as we see horror,dramatic ,action etc movies ,
is there existance of films which relates to our works.(cloning,recombinations etc)
i tried to explain my question.
thanks to all.
If you ever get a chance check out Lorenzo's Oil...very interesting scientific film. But don't forget the tissues... 