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MOLECULAR MEDICINE MADE EASY IN POETRY by PROF DR NOR HAYATI OTHMAN
This is the era of molecular medicine If you are not in it, you are out of fashion Every disease now has genetic notion From colo-rectal cancers to disturbed emotion Everyone is talking about DNA Which could be obtained from victim or prey Policemen, judges, fear we allay We will get the culprit who is astray Who have not heard of Jurassic Park? The famous movie that scored a high mark Mosquitoes, elephants, man or macaque We can get your DNA in daylight or dark! Molecular medicine is the in-thing The terms used are sometimes confusing Consensus sequences and alternative splicing Exons, introns are just the beginning LOH, SSCP, and gene rearrangement Upstream, downstream and cellular disjunction When the offspring get it, is it’s germline mutation When the bases are deleted, it’s frameshift mutation Photo by Carlos de Paz/Flickr
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