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"Wow" Talk about deep are you in COLLEGE or something like a University? have not used that part of my brain in years. I feel like I relearn something I have forgotten, Thanks for That. Good story by the way. Keep up the Great good .
There are the "memory" cells that store information on what to attack and the ones that do the attacking, and I think some of the attackers can turn into the memory ones. The memory ones can identify a threat send out the appropriate proteins that latch onto the threat marking them for destruction, the other way is by the killer white blood cells physically contacting the object and reading any proteins to see if it is a threat or not. Healthy cells have proteins on their surface that mark them as safe, but if they get infected or become cancerous they can replace the surface proteins with ones that signal that something is wrong so the white blood cells can easily deal with it, which I think is what was happening with the infected cell that Cure saw.
This is my understanding of it from watching youtube videos on the subject, so I could definitely be wrong about some things or missing something.
I disagree, this one was just right describing what he is doing and how his ability works. Without that level of detail the worry about Cure being able to make a virus instead of curing one would loose some of its value.
It's not everyone's cup of tea, but personally I think the level of detail throughout this story is wonderful. That level of thought and detail make a story so much better in my opinion. This reminds me a lot of one of my favorites, the Night Lord series by Garon Whited, that has a similar level of detail and experimentation between physics and magic. So, I might be slightly biased.
On the constructive criticism side I can see people's point about there being an awful lot of exposition dump in earlier chapters. I would say it might work better if it had been broken up more and spread out through a better mix of story progression in general. I picture experimenting with a lot of the magic concepts, such as the TK work, being like trying to use a muscle you have never used before. It would work logically to have spread that out over a longer period of time as it would naturally be difficult to figure out how to mentally control it. Just as an example of something that could have been spread out to lessen the wall of text feeling.
Your improving already, I think this chapter is a much better mix of story and detail than some of the earlier ones. I know people have mentioned the exposition dumps, just be careful not to go too far the other way and leave out the details that make it work so well. As a whole, while it has its flaws, this has been a fantastic story so far and a great start for your first written work. Keep it up and your feel for story pacing will only get better.
As for paragraph spacing that you asked about, I prefer double spacing myself. I believe there is a preference setting for the site that readers can adjust however, so I'd say stick with what works better for you.
Cant wait to see where the story goes!
You know, the walls of text didn't bother me at all in the earlier chapters, and they still don't. I've always loved the "boring" details
You've got a loyal reader in me, and I'll keep reading, regardless of if you change your style or not.
Well i learned a alot from this thank u
I really enjoy the technical aspect of magic the way you've got it implimented here. And Amethyst is right, he does have the potential to be the biggest threat anyone's seen in 900 years. I'm looking forward to more of this. Such potential.
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Immunology is a deep field; the immune system is one of the most complex things we've got going on in our bodies, and among biologists it's a noted specialty.
Without going into too much detail, you've got two big "branches" of the immune system: "innate" and "adaptive".
Your innate immune system is composed of a variety of different types of cells and works to defend you against general, unknown threats. This includes macrophages, which is what most people think of as white blood cells; they roam around or hang out in tissues and they "eat" or phagocytose bacterial cells, viral particles, and even infected cells (though they may need help finding those) and the cells of parasites. There are also dendritic cells which do much the same, but which are specialized for activating the adaptive immune system. Other cells are specialized for dumping payloads of chemicals, including signals, which can help do things like cause inflammation.
Your adaptive immune system is about specific targeting, and is mostly about lymphocytes. Lymphocytes are divided into two main classes, T and B; the B cells make antibodies, proteins that recognize a specific something and stick to it, while different types of T cells will help excite (or calm down) other immune cells as well as telling infected cells to self-destruct. The neat thing about these cells is that all of them "look" for one specific chemical arrangement, and just that one; this can be bits of viruses and bacterial being "held out", so to speak, by macrophages and dendritic cells that ate them, and it can also be your own cells which constantly "show" samples of what they're making inside them - if they're making virus bits, they can get spotted. The really neat thing is these cells determine the one thing they can recognize by essentially shuffling up a specific detector gene, like randomizing the shape of a lock to fit one specific key; they are also "trained" not to recognize your own cells (e.g. any that do get killed, and if they don't that's an autoimmune disease).
Anyway, getting to the end of it, when T-helper cells detect their specific target they release signals to amp up immune activity and get other cells going and drawing more attention to the site of infection. B cells that detect their target run around releasing their specific antibodies, which come in a few different arrangements and stick to their targets. That can physically gum them up, making it harder for viruses to infect or for bacteria to move, it makes it easier for phagocytitic cells to find and eat them, and it can even act as a direct attack with a few other proteins to outright pop enemy cells. T-killer or cytotoxic T cells check your own cells for infection, and if they find it they set off a signaling chain that tells the cell to wrap itself up and self-destruct.
For all these lymphocytes, once they become active they reproduce a lot. Some of those copies are also active, while some become "memory" cells. Those remain dormant and stick around after the infection, keeping an eye out (or releasing antibodies) so that if whatever-it-was tries to infect you again they can pounce on it. Remember, each of them recognize a specific thing; that means when you first get an infection it might be one in a trillion cells that can detect it, hence the importance of the innate immune system being the first line of defense. After the first time, you've got a lot more cells ready to go on the attack, though they may not stick around forever.
This is also how vaccination works in general; show the immune system bits of virus or bacteria, or weakened versions of them, or with the recent mRNA tech get your cells to briefly make a particular viral protein (and not the rest of the virus), and those few cells that can detect then will ramp up production so you're already prepped if you get the real infection.
In turn, it's also what makes new strains dangerous; if your body is prepared to recognize a specific thing on the outside of a cold virus and it evolves to change the shape of that protein in a big enough way, now you need a different cell to spot it.
And yes, that's "without too much detail." ;)
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Mr. LiveFree, I'm obviously a few dozen chapters behind at this point, but I'd be happy to help out with these sorts of details if you've got questions; biology is my specialty, and I love it when folks take an interest.
I had my suspicions the virus in his world that got him was COVID....... I learned real quick that it's a very real and deadly thing, it took my mom January 2022.
I was expecting something along the lines of forcing the cell to undergo apoptosis. Although, somethings like cancer or perhaps an odd virus might've already damaged an infected cell's ability to do that.
Neat. I can certainly appreciate the details, especially since you avoided going too far and just getting confusing. And yeah, an actual Biomancer of any sort could easily be one of the most horrifying things on that Planet.
🎶 it's tough to be a god, tread where mortals have not trod. 🎶
It's good someone besides Cure has foresight to see the potential bad, but we feel we a watcher of the show he would already know how skittish ponies are.
It's funny when the adults are talking.
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