booty call for a medi-beta

[tielan]

Anyone reading this have medical background and the time to look through an SGA scenario and tell me how way off I am? It's more on the biogenetics/biochemistry angle than plague, disease, broken bones or triage.

(Basically this is a call for a medical beta other than sjhw_tolerance, who I am going to pester later.)

Comments

[grav-ity.livejournal.com]

I'll have a go. I was a nurses' aide, so I am not sure how helpful I'll be, but I watch a lot of shows on the Discovery Network (before it got all crappy).

[ryf.livejournal.com]

I'm a Biology student in my senior year, so genetics is definetely possible.

Be advised, though, that the Genetics on SGA is more than just wrong as they are presented in the show already.

[sjhw-tolerance.livejournal.com]

Hehehe...I bailed early last night but hope to be back to my normal routine tonight!

[tielan]

I don't have an email address for you - can you mail me - tielan at livejournal dot com

[tielan]

Which parts of the genetics are wrong? Can you elaborate?

(I don't know anything about genetics other than the most basic stuff.)

[tielan]

9pm instead of 7pm? :)

Actually, due to work, I might have to grab you on Saturday night if you're around then. Otherwise, I'll IM you.

[ryf.livejournal.com]

For one, the whole retrovirus stuff is made up. Retroviruses can be inserted into the DNA, but even when you insert large amount of foreign DNA, you cannot have an effect like the one they show, which is basicall tranforming a vertebrate into something that evolved from a bug. In 'our' universe, there are 3 billion years of evolution seperating these lines, a chunk of DNA won't do it.

Another thing is the ATA gene and the gene therapy. The gene therapy is theoretically possible, but not really practible in the next decade or so and the detection of the ATA gene by Atlantis when you don't even touch anything is... well, science fiction.

The way they present Teyla and her Wraith part is also more than just *grr*-inducing in me.

But to their defense, they do make it sound plausible, so I'll try to help with that as much as I can.

[tielan]

Well, I've sent you a mail. However the story is heavily based around the concepts that seem to annoy you, so you might not wish to be involved if it does induce *grr*.

:-/

[ryf.livejournal.com]

Hehe, it's not that bad and I just sent off my reply to you. It's just when it's in the show itself that I want to throw cushions at my TV screen. A friend of mine is an anthropologist and she does the same with SG1. I love SGA anyway :)

I hope I could help you.

[sjhw-tolerance.livejournal.com]

:-P Yes, 9pm instead of 7pm. I'll be around Saturday evening, all day Sunday.

[tielan]

Oh, I can make it to chat, but long conversations about story plots are generally out. :)

[sjhw-tolerance.livejournal.com]

Hehehe...well, long conversations seem out for me as well. :-D