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Thursday, July 25, 2013

Molecular Models At The Movies

By Jospeh Brumsey


Models in the Films

Indigo Instruments isn't only about supplying scientific kit to schools technicians, homeschoolers and students performing their science fair project. No! A fair few molecular models and countless other things have produced their strategy to Hollywood, got themselves on the tiny screen and featured in some offbeat internet experiments.

VP Stephan Logan explains how Rob Cohen's 2005 film "Stealth" is described online Movie Database as "Surprisingly enjoyable". Why? Because a plot line primarily based on three pilots deeply ensconced inside a top-secret military program struggling to bring an artificial intelligence program under control just before it initiates WWIII sounds just so unsurprising. The movie characteristics intense action, violence and innuendo. But, far more excitingly it also characteristics a 17-layer DNA model from Indigo. So, for what was it those pilots needed a model of DNA? You are going to have to watch the movie to find out.

One of Indigo's "anatomically correct" 12-layer DNA models also attributes inside the existing hit movie "Fantastic Four." Within this marvelous piece of cinema, a group of astronauts achieve superpowers soon after becoming exposed to cosmic radiation (yeah, appropriate!) and are destined to use them in fighting the world-dominating plans on the evil Physician Victor Von Doom. They could not have thought of a much more corny name for the villain, but at the very least the DNA molecular model utilized in the film is scientifically correct, getting been built to the highest specifications by Indigo's Logan himself.

After again, superheroes are the topic of yet another movie to feature molecular model kits supplied to Hollywood by Indigo Instruments. In "Return of Zoom", a movie based on the graphic novel "Zoom's Academy for the Super Gifted" by Jason Lethcoe, an unpopular high school girl sent to superhero college by her "mysterious" father and discovers her hidden talents (a la Harry Potter, methinks). The makers of this movie, also utilized a DNA model from Indigo to reveal the inner workings of human genetics at the molecular level. Unfortunately, for Indigo's image, the director asked for the model to be specially produced in order that it would fall apart effortlessly. Never ask why, you'll must go see the movie. Needless to say, any models you acquire from Indigo Instruments is going to be produced to far more exacting standards and are guaranteed not to fall apart!

Stepping back in the superheroes, Indigo Instruments was proud also to supply a entire series of chemical models for the generating of Eddie Murphy blockbuster, "The Nutty Professor". Mineral models such as a massive zeolite model and a model from the structure of diamond have been used to wonderful effect inside the film as Professor Sherman Klump, desperately wanting to drop weight, takes a chemical cocktail that morphs him into the slimly obnoxious Buddy Enjoy. The mineral models function prominently as classic examples of Klump's laboratory gear.

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Molecular models from Indigo Instruments haven't only caught Hollywood's eye, but arthouse directors have turned to Indigo Instruments to supply them with molecular models as well. So, Indigo can now lay claim to possessing appeared at the Toronto Film Festival.

DNA and also other molecular models from Indigo, have also hit the tiny screen in Tv crime show "Law & Order", in sci-fi classic "Stargate Atlantis", and on CBS News during the celebrations from the 50th anniversary on the discovery from the structure of DNA.

It's not just the entertainment industry that is fascinated by Indigo's DNA models. "We've also sold a 17-layer DNA model to such organizations as Bell Labs, IBM, and even shipped one particular to Erasmus University Hospital in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, where the SARS virus was first identified," says Indigo SD Stephan Logan. In addition NASA lesson plans such as their magnets and life lesson cites Indigo Instruments as a useful source of powerful rare earth magnets. Images from Indigo Instruments have been utilized on countless lecture tours and in science demonstrations including those by staff at Wisha University. A chemical flask from Indigo has even been adapted to make a heliograph, or sun tracker.

"We have sold DNA models to lawyers for court cases involving patent issues," adds Logan, "major museums and institutions, such as the Bill Clinton Museum, Howard Hughes Medical Center, Walter Reed Army Hospital, US Naval Academy, Harvard University, New York University and elsewhere, also have our DNA models and others on display." Intriguingly, even the infamous Martha Stewart has bought glassware from Indigo, within the form of test tubes and Erlenmeyer flasks for use in floral arrangements.




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