It's been a long time since I've been able to share any thoughts with the community here but this sort of place would be frowned on by work. The recession has had an effect on my work as it has on many other industries but even with fewer resources, we cannot afford to relent in this increasingly-tiring search for a cure. Some days it feels like every turn is a blind one and every medical discovery sheds light for other researchers but only leads us down another dead end. Yet we cannot afford to…
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Posted by LabRat on 19 March 2009 at 8:00am —
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A plague vaccine has been developed (although not by this research facility) which signifies great advances in finding a cure for zombie infection. Bubonic plague, which in some circles, has been postulated to be a variant of z-infection with similar bursting boils and high infection rates as well as blood infection, lung infection, pneumonia and death. The difference being that reanimation is not documented with cases of bubonic plag…
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Posted by LabRat on 28 October 2008 at 8:02pm —
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Bacterial nanoinjectors are postulated as the best delivery method for whatever cure we come up with, although this may be modified depending on the exact nature of the cure when it is finally derived. I continue to work on the theory that people have personalised reactions to infection. I still don't know if this means that we will need personalised or at least categorised cures. Another of my colleagues is working on vaccinations, afte…
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Posted by LabRat on 29 September 2008 at 10:30am —
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Reported in the media as a hope for malaria cures, it has been discovered that
female bed bugs have developed a whole immune organ in response to the violent sexual practices indulged in by male bed bugs. Male bed bugs have needle-like penises and instead of introducing one sex organ into the other, the male bed bug instead stabs his penis straight into the abdomen of the female bed bug, essentially, wounding her in order…
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Posted by LabRat on 24 September 2008 at 7:56pm —
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My son, as is the way of boys, managed to get some kind of skin infection, which meant a trip to the doctor this morning. In spite of the fact that he looked like he'd been bitten by a zombie, the doctor decided that it was nothing to worry about and prescribed him a course of antibiotics. Has anyone else been prescribed flucloxacillin?
As a good parent, I read the enclosed leaflet, mostly to find out what to do when my boy manages to forget to take a capsule but I was absolutely astounded at w…
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Posted by LabRat on 15 September 2008 at 11:00am —
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The other day, I posted some
thoughts about the Big Bang experiment, the frustrations of my own research and some work my colleague is conducting with investigations into dopamine. I've also bemoaned the lack of live specimens. There is simply too much we don't know about the creatures.
A recent article has talked abo…
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Posted by LabRat on 14 September 2008 at 2:07pm —
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The world is poised, waiting to discover what the
Big Bang experiment results will yield. What will they tell us about our world? What are religious leaders thinking about this pursuit of what is the disproval of various religious tenets? Beginnings interest me but I'm less interested in how the world began (how else other than the Big Bang?) and more interested in the first cause of zombies. What made the first one? Was it natural? W…
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Posted by LabRat on 10 September 2008 at 8:00pm —
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I've been preoccupied with the
possibility of infection affecting individuals in different ways to create zombies with differing behaviours. The hours in the lab have been long and to some extent, fruitless. I persevere. However, I cannot afford to ignore other scientific advances that may yield results. For example, the report on Lee Sweeney, who is known for gene doping but also has been looking at age-re…
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Posted by LabRat on 1 September 2008 at 8:00pm —
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The advancement of a
treatment for cancer that has tackled not only the virulence of the disease but also the financial cost of treatment had originally been thought to have similar applications in reversing the effects of zombie infection but this has not proven to be the case. In cancer, the patients receive an immunotherapy boost which harnesses and the body's own immune system to destroy the canc…
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Posted by LabRat on 16 August 2008 at 2:00pm —
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If genetics are responsible for
different reactions to nicotine addiction and also for
susceptibility to viral infection, it seems somewhat logical that there is genetic code for resistance to zombie infection. What this is or who possesses this particular piece of genetic code is still an absolute mystery to me and my team. This is, of course, assu…
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Posted by LabRat on 14 August 2008 at 9:55pm —
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Having recently stated that
prevention is better than cure, I was quite interested to read about
developments in nanotechnology. This is not my field of expertise but it seems that clinical trials are being conducted to deliver vaccines through this method. I am unsure how effective this would be when trying to treat…
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Posted by LabRat on 14 August 2008 at 9:49pm —
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Linked to an article I noticed recently about
the effects of oestrogen on psychotic incidents, it also came to my attention that some of my peers have been looking at how to calm the effects of the zombie thirst. Whilst oestrogen patches might not be quite what they had in mind, it amused me to imagine lines of zombies queueing for HRT.
On a more serious note, I think the answer is to prevent rather than cure the infection. Once reanim…
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Posted by LabRat on 14 August 2008 at 9:42pm —
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As well as the recent developments with
viruses infecting other other viruses, other research has looked at
the genetic lottery when fighting the effects of viral infection, specifically hepatitis but this could theoretically translate to zombie infection.
'Research by a team of U.S. and British scientists suggests the key is being lucky enoug…
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Posted by LabRat on 14 August 2008 at 9:10pm —
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A
2004 Scientific American article asked the question whether viruses are avtually alive or not. General consensus has been that viruses are not living organisms and I recently repeated this thought when replying to
Pascal's post about bioweapons. However,…
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Posted by LabRat on 14 August 2008 at 8:56pm —
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Work's been very busy the past few days but I've also been ruminating on
the link that The Rumour Mill posted on a
previous blog entry I made. It has always been presumed that zombies are created by voodoo or infectious bites from other zombies, with non-voodoo zombies probably being caused by some kind of currently unidentified virus. However, this articl…
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Posted by LabRat on 5 August 2008 at 8:00am —
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This isn't something that my team have been working on but it's something that's been discussed in theoretical terms behind closed doors for a long time now. A lot of money has been offered to begin the necessary research but there are only so many of us and we were concerned with other projects. And none of us really liked the implication of super-stamina.
The obvious application for such a drug wou…
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Posted by LabRat on 1 August 2008 at 7:06pm —
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I came because I couldn't stay away. I'm sure my participation here will be frowned upon when it's discovered but perhaps I'll be able to pass it off as secondary research. I was attracted here by a
post I read by one of the other members. Without going into detail, one of the projects my team has been working on has been the evolution and mutation of various diseases, especially of the viral type so it was…
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Posted by LabRat on 31 July 2008 at 6:07pm —
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The Sentinel
created this social network on Ning. 
The London Mob
(6 members)
Texas zombie watchman
(2 members)
Malton Survivors
(1 member)
Field Reports
(2 members)
