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'Dr. Peter Sciuto, pleased
to meet you.' The doctor held out his hand as a handshake offer.'
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'Mike, Michael Wallace,
sir.' Mike shook the doctor's hand firmly. 'So how does it work Doc ?' Mike
asked inquisitively. 'Apparently someone stole one.'
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The doc replied: 'It
generates a reasonably powerful low frequency acoustical magnetic signal that
outputs a cellular repair signal to cells. The transmitted message contains
signatured information for Lizbeth's DNA.' The doc continued on: ' It's a
really cool device, there's only eight like it in the entire world. It uses a
pressurized plasma gas tube signal generator and it's powered by a
high-powered spacecraft battery. In a normal environment it's fairly harmless;
unless you wear it too long.' The doc chuckled.
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The doctor paused for a
second in thought. “Lizbeth had a bad case of hypertrichosis, or hair all over
the body. We were able to cure it by taking electro-acoustic samples from
Lizbeth’s healthy cells.” The doctor’s last statement sounded a bit contrived.
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“If you like, I’d be happy
to give you the long story on the device.”
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“Cells communicate with each
other via an electro-acoustic signalling mechanism. They can literally talk to
each other acoustically. By recording pieces of the conversations of healthy
cells, and playing it back to unhealthy cells, the unhealthy cells can be
instructed how to repair themselves.
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Cells repeat periodically
what is like an instruction book on how-to upkeep themselves. Playing this
instruction book tells the cells what to do. That’s what Lizbeth’s Device
does, plays the instruction book for Lizbeth’s cells. The device is basically
just a high-tech playback device. A recording of Lizbeth cells was done in the
lab. One side effect is, sometimes it actually works on other people’s cells
too, if they’re exposed to the signal for too long of a time. “
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“It’s not normally hazardous
to anybody, because in the long run one’s own cellular signalling would
overcome work done by Lizbeth’s device. Short term exposure to Lizbeth’s
device is completely harmless. It works for Lizbeth because she wears the
device 24/7. Now if someone else were to wear the device for an extensive
length of time, who knows what would happen.”
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Since the device is very
expensive to produce, we decided to make half the value of the device as a
distinctive piece of jewellery. As jewellery it has some insurance benefits,
and is easier to identify.
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The device also has quite a
thick layer of gold around it, in order to absorb trace amounts of
radioactivity emitted by the plasma electro-sonic generator.
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Lizbeth really needs that
device back in the near future, or she could be looking kind of strange.