About Spider-Man…?

Question

I was wondering if what happened to Spider-Man can be applied to reality with scientific explanations. Being bitten by a spider with it's DNA transffered to his, is it possible? I thought that it's not that easy to transfer one's DNA to another and I don't think an individual will easily be immune to the foreign DNA. There might be effects but…

Real fiction or can be explained and done scientifically? What do you guys think?

Answer 1

if a spider bite somehow, miraculously changed one bit of DNA, your body would see it as foreign, and destroy it.

if it somehow not only survived the onslaught, but caused other strands of DNA to change, until it hit the whole body, the result, though i'm sure it's not possible, would be that the human would die since its form is suited to live the life of a human. you would not start suddenly thinking "oh crap, i gotta spin some webs, fight crime, and get with mary jane!"

just ask your friends!

Answer 2

Gene transfer to humans is currently a very hot field and is known as somatic gene therapy. A very common approach is to take out the pathogenic genes of a virus and insert the gene of interest into the virus to construct the desired vector, which can then be intravenously administered to the patient. Typically gene therapy is used to treat monogenic or cancer disorders.

The development of a spiderman is theoretically possible in this fashion; however the function of all the genes involved in building a web need to be fully characterized and known to be applicable to humans too (non toxic etc).

Answer 3

The History Channel just ran a program called Spider-man Tech, which looked at Spider-man's powers. I only caught a few minutes of it, but it seemed like the show was focusing on the "science" behind his powers. You might want to go on the History Channel's website to see when the program will air again.

Answer 4

No but you can eat a Chicago-style pizza which is a specific variety of pizza. Pizza is traditionally considered to be a type of hearth cake such as focaccia. The Chicago-style pizza shares more in common with a casserole, such as lasagna. True Chicago-style pizza, a unique deep dish variety, features a buttery crust-cheese-chunky tomato sauce construction. There is some confusion between deep-dish and "stuffed" and "pan" pizzas, but it is for the deep-dish style that Chicago is most famous

Answer 5

you can only alter DNA and the expression of DNA in prokaryotes. to put it as simply as possible, eukaryotes are to complex for anything like that to happen.