Movie: The Island.....Stem Cells

After a long cancer review paper (mines was on TTF therapy on GBM brain tumors), we took a few classes break watching the movie The Island. I won't include any spoilers, but its a Michael Bay film with Scarlett Johansson, so you can kinda guess what its like. Anyway, the film was largely based on the ongoing stem cell research that have been quite controversial, especially in 2005 when the movie was created since that was when the "Stem Cell Research Enactment Act" was billed and passed in Senate and the House of USA...it was unfortunately vetoed by president George Bush soon after.

Anyway, we are asked to post a question concerning the topic of stem cell research, its future, or the movie itself.

Here is my question:

Why does Michael Bay love to use the wide-angle-camera pan shooting technique in his films so much?

Now the legit question: In the movie, the bad guy (no spoilers) says that in order to keep bodily organs fresh and functional, the organisms must be conscious and not in a vegetative state. Which doesn't make much sense...after some research into the topic of persistent vegetative state, the term "vegetative" is described as "capable of growth and development, but devoid of sensation and thought." If that was the case, why couldn't the products simply be kept in a vegetative state? Why did they have to go through the consciousness of living? Perhaps it was only for the sake of the plot of the movie...





sources: http://www.coma.ulg.ac.be/inform/vegetative_state.html

Unit 4 and 5

Following our conclusion of unit 3, we quickly advanced to unit 4 (genetics) and unit 5 (Organelles and mitosis)

For genetics, we went in depth about the gene composition and sex linked/autosominal inherited traits. We discovered specific chromosomes coded for specific traits of a organelle's offspring. To demonstrate my learning of genes in unit 4, I have created a glog on ALS disease.
http://seanyang9785.edu.glogster.com/als/

Unit 5 did not involve many new things, however it went in depth into more cell biology, especially the process of mitosis and cytokinesis in different types of cells. We also learned many new organelles in a cell and their functions.
A prezi that I have made provides a lot of information on cell organelles.
http://prezi.com/1b0q7xczqie1/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy

Unit 5 part 2, Cancer.
After we came back from winter break, we went right into cancer study, we discovered that cancer involves basically all information from unit 3 all the way to 5. We are currently working on a long review paper about a particular cancer or treatment type to demonstrate our knowledge of unit 5. Once I have finished mine, I will post it on here.