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PROJECT HYDRA
Project Name: HYDRA
Start Date: 4/17/42
Completion Date: 8/3/15
Overview: Explore limitations of regenerative cells within Monroe, Adam.
Method: chemical, surgical, expressive (biological manipulation)
Note [5/11/12]: Full Hydra archive moved to Ross Dam facility.
Note [6/2/12]: Comparative with study #22 subject's cells replicate and rebuild independently of normal bodily autonomous functions. Cells will continue to replicate even in instances of brain death and remain active for 72 hours after host death. Cells are capable of reconstructing themselves to the last known "working configuration". Subject's cells possess extensive epigenetic memory. See subject cell structure below.
Cytoplasm: organelles and salt/protein structures more complex than human cells.
Nucleus: genetic material contains numerous unknown chains possibly related to baseline physical structure.
Cell membrane: appears to function differently, not just sheathe for cytoplasm. Absorbs and "decodes" foreign biological material it comes in contact with. May explain blood's capability to cause healing.
Mitochondria: contains complex layered DNA sequences of unknown purpose.
Ribosomes: organelles three times more complex, energy conversion rates higher.
Note [11/4/12]: attempts to surgically graft subject's tissues onto other hosts is unsustainable. Organ rejection rates are 88% among non-expressives and 53% among expressives. Perplexingly, blood and plasma injections adopt with 100% conversion rate.
Note [12/22/12]: In deceased host blood will fully reconfigure host cells. Rapid cell regeneration ends after roughly 2 minutes but constitutes near total tissue regeneration. Permanent side effects are evident in cell reconstruction related to unknown DNA sequences in subject's mitochondria. Function unknown.
Note [2/17/13]: Attempts at gestating full-grown clone from full collection of harvested limbs and organs resulted in failure. Rapid cell regeneration went wildly out of control causing cascading mutations. Possible DNA corruption to blame.
Note [2/22/13]: Blood from failed clone appears to behave differently in non-original body. Injections on test subjects C, D, and F resulted in full cellular reconstruction. Subjects have limited rapid-cell healing but require regular infusions or body begins to cannibalize itself. Uncontrolled prion folding similar to Advent.
Note [3/19/13]: Subject #77 deceased. Attempt to grow tissue from fetal stage in surrogate mother resulted in rapid cellular expansion and termination of surrogate.
Note [3/27/13]: First cloned cells prepped with donor eggs and artificial womb. Dr. Allen supervision mitosis.
Note [4/3/13]: 3 natal clones progressing on course. Rapid cell regeneration causes rapid aging up to "latest known configuration." Should be fully-grown within 4 months.
Note [5/11/13]: 1 natal clone died, 2 natal clones appear to have grown together in their incubators. Tissue fusion has caused unexpected superficial mutations. We will restart the process and maintain fused clone for examination.
Note [6/23/13]: Fused clone is missing. Was being transported to Ross Dam facility when train derailed. Caspar Abraham missing and may have been involved. Retention is handling it.
Note [8/3/13]: Research finalized. Successful implementation alongside HYDRA.
Note [9/8/16]: Field test successful. Director pleased with performance. Clones are maintaining physical cohesion and do not appear to require further medical attention, though rapid-cell regeneration ceases to function when coupled with Heisenberg neurological transfer.
RECOVERED ATTACHMENTS:
attachment 1: graft #323
attachment date: 11/04/12
attachment text: Pete, this isn't going to work. Even with Allen helping us we can't graft Monroe's parts onto someone else. Blood works fine, it seems to adapt to the host. But the tissue grafts go out of fucking control and just start resequencing DNA. This guy? We found feline DNA in his body. This was all the result of a single ocular transplant. This is a waste of time.
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attachment 1: subject #77
attachment date: 03/09/13
attachment text: Pete, we can't use living hosts for this. I know Allen has reservations about using the artificial wombs because of fetal health, but these things just grow too fast. We had a fully-grown copy tear itself out of a surrogate. Allen says she might be able to get the artificial wombs to work with a proper nutrient bath but she says she'll need your help to simulate amniotic fluids the fetus won't reject.
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attachment 3: artificial womb
attachment date: 05/11/13
attachment text: Pete, second brood of natal clones coming along fine. We've made smaller individual artificial wombs to incubate them, the batch tanks were working fine until their cells started to cannibalize each other. These things are growing rapidly and we're looking at a 2 month gestation period to simulated birth, then another 2 months of rapid cell growth until the clone is fully grown. They're basically big dumb animals, though, but I'm hoping the Heisenberg successes will help mitigate that.
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attachment 4: fused clone
attachment date: 06/01/13
attachment text: Pete, though you'd want to see this. The fused clone is fully-grown now. It busted out of its containment cell and tore through the facility until we were able to corner it in the morgue. We got a couple of photos of it in motion (nightmare fuel). Sedation was successful and we've got it in a shipping container bound for Ross Dam. I'll be headed out of here ahead of it to make sure everything is ready to receive it at its permanent holding cell. Docs tried to do a Heisenberg pass for the fuck of it but the conjoined cerebral tissue scrambled it all up. Abraham has been pissing up a storm about this being "inhumane" and I'm sitting here wondering if he even knows what the fuck he's talking about. He's been chatting with it for a while, reading books. I think he's fucking lost it. I've asked Retention to look into it but they said that he's too valuable right now. Whatever, he can stay with his monster at Ross Dam for all I care.
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