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Molecular Models at the Movies

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

Key phrases: movies, models, molecular models, chemistry, molecules, science

Post Body: Models at the Movies

Indigo® Instruments isn't only about supplying scientific kit to schools technicians, homeschoolers and students performing their science fair project. No! A fair couple of molecular models and countless other items have created their way to Hollywood, got themselves on the little screen and featured in some offbeat internet experiments.

VP Stephan Logan explains how Rob Cohen's 2005 movie "Stealth" is described on the Web Movie Database as "Surprisingly enjoyable". Why? Due to the fact a plot line based on 3 pilots deeply ensconced in 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 capabilities intense action, violence and innuendo. But, far far more excitingly it also functions a 17-layer DNA model from Indigo. So, for what was it those pilots necessary a model of DNA? You'll have to watch the movie to uncover out.

1 of Indigo's "anatomically right" 12-layer DNA models also capabilities in the existing hit movie "Amazing 4." In this marvelous piece of cinema, a group of astronauts gain superpowers following becoming exposed to cosmic radiation (yeah, correct!) and are destined to use them in fighting the world-dominating plans of the evil Physician Victor Von Doom. They couldn't have thought of a much more corny name for the villain, but at least the DNA molecular model utilized in the movie is scientifically accurate, having been built to the highest specifications by Indigo's Logan himself.

Once once more, superheroes are the subject of an additional 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 school by her "mysterious" father and discovers her hidden talents (a la Harry Potter, methinks). The makers of this movie, also used a DNA model from Indigo to reveal the inner workings of human genetics at the molecular level. Sadly, for Indigo's image, the director asked for the model to be specially created so that it would fall apart effortlessly. Don\'t ask why, you'll have to go see the movie. Needless to say, any models you purchase from Indigo Instruments will be produced to far much more exacting standards and are guaranteed not to fall apart!

Stepping back from the superheroes, Indigo® Instruments was proud also to offer 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 of the structure of diamond had been utilized to Fantastic effect in the movie as Professor Sherman Klump, desperately attempting to shed weight, takes a chemical cocktail that morphs him into the slimly obnoxious Buddy Adore. The mineral models feature prominently as classic examples of Klump's laboratory equipment.

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

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

It\'s not just the entertainment business 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 1 to Erasmus University Hospital in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, where the SARS virus was initial identified," says Indigo SD Stephan Logan. In addition NASA lesson plans which includes their magnets and life lesson cites Indigo Instruments as a helpful source of potent rare earth magnets. Images from Indigo® Instruments have been utilized on countless lecture tours and in science demonstrations which includes 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 instances involving patent problems," adds Logan, "main museums and institutions, including 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 other people on display." Intriguingly, even the infamous Martha Stewart has bought glassware from Indigo, in the form of test tubes and Erlenmeyer flasks for use in floral arrangements.