Nano Treatments
Nano treatments support cellular repair and cryogenic survival, while the mountain bunker’s invited residents receive inoculation during their bus journey.
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Nano treatments are reputed to delay the pain of aging without granting immortality and are extremely expensive. Thurman’s treatment repairs individual cells, and he says its machines are programmed for his DNA; his nurse assures Donald they will not interact with him. Thurman claims machines can undo what they repair, and Donald describes medical nanobaths alongside the prospect of invisible, self-reproducing weapons.
After hibernation, dead machines leave Donald’s body in charcoal-colored urine. Erskine explains that machines permit freezing survival and preserve dead bodies against rot. He says they can restructure and evolve, and believes each defense could teach the next attack. Anna describes airborne machines selectively attacking materials while sparing sensors, concrete, and properly built suits. Dr. Wilson says nanos are injected during waking and might repair a patient before he could intervene; Donald later describes cryopod machines as repairing and preserving people.
John believes a shared medical-chamber treatment protected his family by killing harmful machines in their blood. The invited residents of the mountain bunker receive inoculation on their bus journey.
Role
Microscopic treatments associated with repair, preservation, and protection, alongside accounts of destructive applications.
Sources — 21 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.
- Donald says cryopods contain machines that repair and preserve people.
- John believes a shared medical-chamber treatment protected his family by killing harmful machines in their blood.
- The invited bunker residents receive inoculation during their bus journey.