The scientific themes of Andromeda Strain

When Chrichton wrote Andromeda romance demonstrated a great ability to extract information from scientific treatises and the same malleability to write a winning and involving story, full of "boiling" thems, for example the existence of extraterrestrial lives, that always has interested the so-called "new age".
In Andromeda we can find the "colown of the first (and not unlikely) biological crisis of our planet, lived in the first person first of all by five scientists that execute, despite themselves, a part of heroes toward all the mankind. The author in this way wants to get in prominence the scientific research (most important part) that in this kind of cases, is the only weapon that the human beings can use to defend themselves.
We think that Chrichton wants to underline the importance of the new advanced technologies and the scientists too.
This theme is traceable in the first part of the romance, where we can find the description of a very big and hypertechnological installation used to study the extraterrestrial substances; of an "X-laboratory" financed straight by the state, for the populations' safeguard, without spare no time and money (in a lot of States the scientific research isn't financed as in the U.S.A.).
The surprising conclusion with an evolutioning virus that become innocuous for a human beings tell us that Chrichton will be optimist about a probable alien contamination in future.

by  Davide Minotto , Gessica Rizzato , Riccardo Marcato , Nicola Berti