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Invasive Procedure (other)
Invasive procedure may refer to: * "Invasive Procedures" (''Star Trek: Deep Space Nine''), the fourth episode of the second season of the television series ''Star Trek: Deep Space Nine'' * ''Invasive Procedures'' (novel), a 2007 novel by Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston * Minimally-invasive procedures Minimally invasive procedures (also known as minimally invasive surgeries) encompass surgical techniques that limit the size of incisions needed, thereby reducing wound healing time, associated pain, and risk of infection. Surgery by definition ...
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Invasive Procedures (novel)
''Invasive Procedures'' (2007) is a medical thriller by American writers Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston. This novel was based on the short story "Malpractice" by Card, which first appeared in the ''Analog'' magazine in 1977. Plot George Galen, a brilliant geneticist and Nobel laureate and part of the Human Genome Project, comes to believe that he can guide humanity to a brighter future through genetic enhancement disappears from public view. Galen takes his research underground, eventually devising a virus that can carry specific genes into human cells. This virus, which the government dubs V16, must be tailored to each patient. It can cure that patient of a genetic disorder - but it is quickly lethal to anyone else, inducing a serious rejection reaction as their body responds to its attempt to rewrite the host's DNA. Galen sends agents called Healers to collect DNA from possible patients. If their disorder is caused by a suitable (repairable) defect, he engineers a vers ...
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