Vampires and genetic engineering.

“Vlad Ţepeş, the Impaler, Prince of Wallachia (1456-1462) (died 1477)” (Wikipedia, Vlad the Impaler)

Vampires, mythic blood suckers, are creatures that have inspired many movies. Count Dracula, a handsome, noble man who wants to drink the blood of young virgins, is the creature that made many comebacks on movie screens. And as we know, the Irish novelist Bram Stoker invented that character. The real character behind this myth was Vlad Tepes, the Romanian count, called “Vlad the Impaler,” who lived in the 15th century. Vampires are creatures that turn to ash in daylight. 

The purpose of this text is not to introduce vampire tales. Its purpose is to explain what kind of creature the theoretical vampire could be. The fact is that. The creatures that can change their shapes and turn into dust fascinate people. 

Sometimes, people who work in biotechnology create theoretical models, such as what kind of creature a vampire could be. The idea is that the thing that turns the person who is a vampire’s victim into another vampire would be some kind of virus. The vampire would inject tissue into the body of the victim.

Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Gothic horror novel from 1895

And then that tissue forms the virus that turns the victim into a vampire. But how can a vampire turn into ash? In those theoretical models, the vampire is a formation. Of cells. That turns into spores in the daylight. This means that our hypothetical vampire could carry the same genomes. That makes anthrax bacteria take the spore form. The vampire could rest in that spore-form cell dust for hundreds of years. And then this creature must read its memories from that DNA. Water kills a vampire because it causes osmosis in its cells. 

The vampire could use pheromones to control people whom it controls. The tissue can receive things like neurotransmitters and then control the person’s body. That tissue or spores can. Make contact with the olfactory bulb. The spore can send electric impulses to that nerve. Or, it can grow roots to the nerve channel and pump neurotransmitters into the nervous system.  

The thing that makes a vampire turn its shape. It would be the DNA that includes the genetic material of many species. And the vampire must only have the ability to read a certain sequence of the DNA. This DNA sequence turns its creature into another. If a vampire can read any DNA point, it wants. That allows it to change its form. 

As well as vampires. Werewolves are mythic creatures. Full moon turns those maybe very innocent-looking humans into beasts that eat humans. In the same way as in the vampire case, the hypothetical werewolf must have two DNAs. The moonlight can activate that process. And that thing changes the DNA in the werewolves' cells. 

This can make them change their form. The fact is that. In the future, biotechnology. Makes possible. To connect species. A creature that has the same abilities as a vampire could be an ultimate tool for intelligence.  This raises a question about ourselves. Can we be so mad that someday we will create vampires? That is one big question. 

We know. Those things. Like the WW2 era. The Ahnenerbe organization was interested. In these kinds of myths. So, could it be possible that in some laboratory, some person with skills and equipment dreams about a creature that can slip into every room? Control other people. And resist any weapon except the sunlight, silver, and water. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampire

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vlad_the_Impaler