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Posted: Fri Aug 14, 2015 12:20 pm
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Genetics was time consuming and often seemingly unnecessarily complicated, even when you followed a standard procedure and were, in fact, performing something that had become routine.
A new cell line had to be growth tested over and over, checking and re-checking yield rates until you found just a few out of thousands that remained stable. Even then, just one of two of those might remain stable, and then it was time to observe and let grow... Not that one could relax at that stage either, of course; each new cell line cloned and grown from the stable genetic lineage would have to be monitored, tested, and very carefully tweaked should problems arise. There were often problems, sometimes leading to the 'scrapping' of entire specimens. Rocket scientists had done these procedures over and over again, though, with multiple species. Now they had perfected 'Ralts'.
A section of the labs had been dedicated to the project, growing a number of the new beings in rows of clear tanks filled with a viscous, faintly purple, solution.
Science-assigned grunts were able to come and record data or perform standard checks and tasks, while agents, like Tambrey, were able to come and do the same, or, in fact, study the specimens, and the equipment and materials, at a more complex level, working to tweak and perfect the process constantly.
Today was an 'assignment' day; one of the new Ralts would be going to a Rocket operative. Thankfully, Tambrey didn't have to wait to be notified to go and assign clearance, for KO, of course, already worked in the department.
Thus she filled the time before she expected him to arrive by rechecking each tank, and sending digital copies of each tank report into an assigned file in the database, playing, a little, with Turing while she did so. She'd could be found standing in front of a specific tank, 'conversing' with her sprited Porygon-Z at that moment.
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Posted: Fri Aug 14, 2015 12:30 pm
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Posted: Fri Aug 14, 2015 1:20 pm
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Tambrey smirked, clicking to 'exit' a couple of programmes, and clicking an icon to start 'Space Invaders', to keep Turing busy for a while, much to the virtual pokémons delight.
<< (≧ω≦) >>
"I'm, uh, well. Good, actually, sort of Doctor Oak... Professor Oak? Wow that... That's weird." She blinked, and shook it off. KO didn't resemble the famous scientist at all, thankfully, so it didn't remain -too- weird. "Um. Anyway, I'm good; we have really good, uh, stuff... Results... happening today. Things are busy. But it's good busy." She didn't look so tired as she had previously, though still a little; it was likely more due to the lab having a little flurry of successes, keeping her and the science department busy, rather than stress, finally, though. A dead Sharpedo, as odd as it was, wasn't going to give her sleepless nights.
"Hair looks good." She did notice- it was hard -not- to notice things about your friends after you thought you'd lost them once. "Um. Feeling well?" And, of course, that meant she'd noticed he was a little off colour too; given what he'd been through, or what he was now, she couldn't help but pick up on something like that... Though, aside from the... subtle peakiness... "You are, um, looking well..." Mostly.
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Posted: Fri Aug 14, 2015 1:35 pm
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Posted: Fri Aug 14, 2015 2:14 pm
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"Ooh. Fair trade, I think?" Tambrey replied, then furrowed her brow, making the connection between 'Pulse' and 'Lex', once more- names and codenames sometimes unfortunately uncoupled in her head- and hearing 'absinthe' in there... "Aha.. And, uh, how did that go..?" She questioned, skeptically, recalling some certain information regarding KO's return...
It was a far easier to talk through almost without thinking, upon KO's prompt toward genetics. "Oh, uh. Pretty much. We, um, have our process pretty streamlined and most of our, um, tasks and straightforward and pretty much automated, even, but, uh, failure rates in cell lines are a factor in every new venture, not matter how prepared we are, so, um... Tests and observation. Near constant. Until, um, failure rates dip under 80 percent consistently for, um, ten batches of cell lines." She grinned. "Sounds a lot, but, um, honestly, if we get it right, and it works, we can complete that in a couple of days these days. After that, well. Um. Standard cloning tanks. Normal production line." Her eyebrows rose as she realized something. "Oh. Uh. This is one of yours. Er. Ours. By the way. One of the formulas we worked through." She gestured at the tank they stood in front of, or more precisely, the faint purple 'gel' inside. "IGF-2 and, um, TR Alpha 1 enrichment with regular dopamine infusion."
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Posted: Fri Aug 14, 2015 2:26 pm
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Posted: Fri Aug 14, 2015 2:47 pm
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"Ah. Well, um, he was trying... " She supposed, catching onto the first part of the sentence. "But that's what people do, um, we talk about ourselves, even if we don't notice it... I'm sure he'll try to be better." Tambrey offered, but it wasn't as though she had a lot of brilliantly emotional relationships to draw advice from.
An easier subject, the science of growing new life... "Oh, uh, quite a bit. Our initial yield rate on these guys, uh, Ralts, I mean, was 55 percent, which, um, doesn't /sound/ a lot, but in comparison, we've had 'successful' lines start with initial yields of 15 percent. So, um, it's a huge boost. It could be a fluke, I mean, we could have been -really- lucky, but, uh, I suspect it's the particular balance and the process of gradual infusion with the dopamine rather than, uh..." She performed air-quotes with her free hand " 'jacking them up' with concentrated doses."
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Posted: Fri Aug 14, 2015 2:54 pm
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Posted: Fri Aug 14, 2015 3:11 pm
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Tambrey grinned; she knew KO'd pick up on the significance. Of course, there had been variations between the low yield 'successes' and this highest initial yield, but 55 was still a very very high number.
"A few. Some, uh, variations though. Um. There's a high carbon variation, most interestingly, that we're, um, trying a Pawniard line in, and, um, switching a batch of Aron's over to, also. In botanics, I know there's a Budew line in production; uh, that one's a different formula, but hopefully equally as successful. We've also, uh, got Meowth sequences joining the, um, Purrloin lineages. Thankfully they're similar enough that there's not much issue in production there."
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Posted: Fri Aug 14, 2015 3:33 pm
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Posted: Fri Aug 14, 2015 3:46 pm
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Posted: Fri Aug 14, 2015 3:52 pm
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Posted: Fri Aug 14, 2015 4:31 pm
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"Mmhm." Tambrey gave a nod, and tapped at her tablet to wake it up and interrupt Turing's game. It seemed like he'd finished for the moment, leaving the screen on 'high score' to brag, though. She snorted and smirked at it.
"Uh. Hm. Anyway, yes, all normal, or, uh, what counts for normal, really... Male. Did you choose a name? Uh, it'll prompt you when you transfer anyway, but, I'm documenting already..." She pointed toward her tablet, which now had a documentation form up, along with a little Porygon-Z sprite and a speech bubble.
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Posted: Fri Aug 14, 2015 4:39 pm
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Posted: Fri Aug 14, 2015 5:01 pm
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