Cyn
A quiet enigma. We don't know anything about Cyn yet.
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See all 113 »Stem cells Stem cells have the remarkable potential to develop into many different cell types in the body during early life and growth. In addition, in many tissues they serve as a sort of ...
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Intestinal worms Intestinal worms are properly called "helminths," which most dictionaries will tell you are parasites. Exploiting their hosts, draining resources, sucking the life out of t...
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Reproduction We're on Earth, in an area whose weather is cold and dry most of the year, with a short summer and long winter (and brief transitional periods). We have a mammal, around the size of ...
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Allow bloodline proxies Adoption is the obvious choice for most male and many female couples. But if bloodline is important in a particular family, allow for a proxy. For example, if a female co...
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Humans already are able to have ears halfway there. In most people, protruding or prominent ears are caused by an underdeveloped antihelical fold. When the antihelical fold does not form ...
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Muscle plasticity is not the same thing as regeneration. Muscle plasticity is defined as the ability of a given muscle to alter its structural and functional properties in accordance with the...
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Pig skin Pig skin is already used on humans as part of skin grafting. It is generally only used as a temporary graft until a more permanent one is ready. From a 1964 article, as the process was ...
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Mutism is the inability to speak, not the inability to make any sounds with the mouth. Your character could become mute from a variety of causes. Willk suggests a laryngectomy, which would certai...
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With substantial training and practice, a tongueless person can learn to speak again. Intelligibly. Your characters may choose not to do that though. Also, I frame challenge your assertion that ...
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No. The mass extinction you're hoping for"”no plants and only microscopic animals"”is impossible from these conditions. At the point that humans left the planet, it was possible for animal and pl...
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It's a retrovirus A retrovirus is a type of RNA virus that inserts a copy of its genome into the DNA of a host cell that it invades, thus changing the genome of that cell. Such viruses are ...
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You'll want to start with technology that produces light suitable for growing crops indoors. Grow lights exist of course but they're awfully energy intensive. With near-future technology you'll h...
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