Transformation

By Surjeet Kumar Arya (BMS alum from ANDC) 

(reproduced from the annual magazine of Dept. of Biomedical Science, ANDC – BioMeR)

What is transformation?

Small thing, but great in potential

It offers boundless opportunities

To cure mankind of many maladies

Genome is easy to be transferred

From test tube to bacteria conferred.

Causes great diversity to occur

But in humans can’t still be preferred

Foreign gene on vector can be compiled,

How the hell, here is physics applied.

Never less, never more,

Just the gene transferred galore.

Technology can save a life at risk,

Offers great benefits by simple biology tricks.

A gene can behave in manners strange,

Depends how do you in plasmid arrange.

I still ain’t sure how DNA works its way,

Into the cell and gets carried away

It’s nature’s creation, at its best,

So don’t let it be lost is my behest.

Understand the phenomenon of transformation

It is the way to new creation?