Nano Treatments
Nano treatments use microscopic machines for bodily repair and survival through freezing, while accounts of weaponized nanos describe destructive capabilities.
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Nano treatments are reputed to delay the pain of aging without making their recipients immortal, and are described as extremely expensive. Paul Thurman receives treatments in which tiny machines repair individual cells; he says his nanos are programmed for his DNA and claims they can undo what they can repair. Donald describes medical nanobaths as repairing skin and joints, while warning that weaponized machines could reproduce invisibly and destroy people.
Erskine explains that the machines enabling survival through freezing also preserve dead bodies against decay. Dead machines are flushed out in charcoal-colored urine on waking. He says nanos can restructure and evolve rapidly, and believes each defense could become a blueprint for a later attack. According to Anna Thurman, airborne machines attack selected materials while leaving sensors, concrete, and properly constructed suits intact.
Dr. Wilson says nanos are injected during waking because a normal human would not survive freezing. He believes they might repair a waking patient's problem before he could intervene.
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Cellular repair technology used in treatment and frozen suspension, with destructive applications described by several participants.
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Sources — 18 recorded facts, by chapter
- Nano treatments are reputed to delay the pain of aging without making a person immortal.
- Nano treatments are described as extremely expensive.
- The Senator’s latest nano treatment requires Donald to travel to Boston to meet him.
- Nanobiotic treatment uses tiny machines to repair individual cells inside Thurman’s body.
- The nurse assures Donald that Thurman’s nanos will not interact with his body.
- Thurman says the treatment nanos are programmed for his DNA.
- Thurman claims nanos can undo what they can repair.
- Donald describes medical nanos as tiny machines that repair skin and joints in nanobaths.
- Donald claims weaponized nanos could reproduce invisibly and destroy people without warning.
- Dead machines are flushed from Donald’s body in charcoal-colored urine after hibernation.
- Erskine explains that the microscopic machines which permit survival through freezing also preserve dead bodies against rot.
- The microscopic machines turn urine charcoal-colored on waking from freezing.
- Erskine says nanos can rapidly restructure themselves and evolve.
- Erskine believes each nano defense would provide a blueprint for the next attack.
- Erskine predicts that hostile nano armies could form airborne clouds and fight without a host.
- According to Anna, the airborne machines selectively attack materials, leaving sensors, concrete and properly built suits intact.
- Dr. Wilson says nanos are injected during waking because freezing would kill a normal human.
- Dr. Wilson believes nanos might fix a waking patient’s problem before he could intervene.