editor's blog
The Fantastic Voyage
Antibodies next took centre stage in the science fiction adventure “The Fantastic Voyage” in 1966. The story follows a crew of doctors who – along with their submarine – are shrunk down to microscopic size and injected into a diplomat who has been critically injured in a botched assassination attempt.
Antibodies pose a constant danger to the intrepid crew but it is perennial movie bad guy Donald Pleasence whose encounter with them is perhaps the most unpleasant. I won’t spoil the surprise but suffice to say that after watching this as a child I developed an irrational fear of both white blood cells and the cotton wool-like blobs used to illustrate them on screen.
I’m fine now by the way.
