Rosalind Lutece (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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networkinthenight2019-12-07 09:59 pm
originallutece) wrote in networkinthenight2019-12-07 09:59 pm
first experiment; 9:53 PM
For our more vampiric population, I come to you with a solution for your dietary problems.
I've invented artificial blood. A substance you can consume without harming others, but that will sustain you much as food and water. I owe a debt to Elena for helping me test them.
Unfortunately, it cannot yet be used in a medical sense-- for blood transplants, which are, by the by, a very important part of medical knowledge, which makes up the second part of this announcement.
If you do not know your blood type, come see me, and I can at least determine it. Blood types are a vital bit of information in a place where one routinely gets cut to bits. Transfusing blood-- that is, the act of giving one's blood to another-- can save a life in many cases. However, if the wrong sorts of blood interact, the result can be deadly.
Many of you do not know your blood type. This will, inevitably, come back to bite you.
So. I suggest you come by my lab within the next few days and find out, before you nearly die of an injury, manage to make it back to town, and then die of your original blood sensing the invader and killing off the cells that came to theoretically heal you. What a horrible, ironic death that would be.
I've invented artificial blood. A substance you can consume without harming others, but that will sustain you much as food and water. I owe a debt to Elena for helping me test them.
Unfortunately, it cannot yet be used in a medical sense-- for blood transplants, which are, by the by, a very important part of medical knowledge, which makes up the second part of this announcement.
If you do not know your blood type, come see me, and I can at least determine it. Blood types are a vital bit of information in a place where one routinely gets cut to bits. Transfusing blood-- that is, the act of giving one's blood to another-- can save a life in many cases. However, if the wrong sorts of blood interact, the result can be deadly.
Many of you do not know your blood type. This will, inevitably, come back to bite you.
So. I suggest you come by my lab within the next few days and find out, before you nearly die of an injury, manage to make it back to town, and then die of your original blood sensing the invader and killing off the cells that came to theoretically heal you. What a horrible, ironic death that would be.
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Ask. This isn't your laboratory; the least you can do is respect that.
[She lingers there, just to make a point . . . and then takes a step back, because he is intelligent enough to warrant an opinion. A very minor one.]
I've had it up to here with short, skinny men acting like they own the place.
[Riku, Bruce, Newt . . . is this the Invincible? Do people just come and go as they please?]
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[He bristles. In his mind, he's done nothing wrong. She told him to show up, he did, and here they are! Now there's hoops? Come on. Also, he's not that short!!!
...But, he does get it. Not enough to stop him from arguing, but, like, it's there.]
I have four PhDs in biology, one of which is in biochem. I pioneered methods for artificial tissue replication, not to mention, um, an entire new field of biology. You want me on this.
[...]
And I'm super bored. I bet you are, too.
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The truth is, it's difficult to say the problem, in no small part because the sole test for success was one woman's full stomach. So far, I've narrowed it down to the insertion of certain proteins at certain key stages, but it's still not stable enough to be of use as a transfusion. Just enough to fill a stomach.
Take a look.