![]() ADAM is then regurgitated by the Little Sister, which can be processed to make a number of ADAM products for a variety of other uses. Through this procedure, the young girl becomes what is called a " Little Sister," and the slug creates ADAM with the child as its symbiotic host. In order to produce greater quantities of the ADAM to meet commercial demand for the citizens of Rapture, the slug must go through a symbiotic embedding process, where it is implanted into a small child, specifically, a young girl, aged 5–10 (possibly). Her research would unlock the key to medical and consumer genetic modification and herald the age of ADAM. Tenenbaum retrieved the slug and began to study its amazing biochemistry. The interaction with the strange animal had resulted in the miraculous recovery. The man revealed that a Sea Slug brought in from the ocean had bitten him. Brigid Tenenbaum observed a dock worker in Neptune's Bounty who had recently regained the use of his hand years after a crippling injury. Living in an underwater city at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, the citizens of Rapture encountered marine life in ways they could never have on the surface. "Something about stem cells…” ― Rapture Citizens So other therapies to help healing and suppress diseases (which might strike you in your weakened state while recovering) probably would be significant to any REVERSAL process.Sea Slug Anatomy and Life Cycle. Minor genetic garbage could be cleaned out by the body's natural mechanisms which handle the cancer cells which continually form in your body your entire life. REVERSAL - if you can sweep all that genetic (mod) garbage out of your body and then apply sufficient Clean ADAM to allow your body to rebuild all the damage, you could go back to having all your own ORIGINAL DNA and stable tissue. ![]() It could thus function as a Venom for a seaslug by disrupting its prey's body by disfunctioning sufficient tissue (killing it). So again ADAM is a chemical coctail which causes human tissue to REVERT to stem-cell form, to either reform normally or have some select genetic changes grown into the tissue. Splicers WE saw with massive changes (like Spider Splicers) would have had to ingest large portions of their bodyweight in a 'stem cell' ADAM to change as much as they did. You have to take more generic ADAM to repair that damage as you Splice more (additional Plasmids just complicate your health problems - notice few Splicers had more than one Plasmid).ĪDAM cannot be 'stem cells' itself (stem cells are YOUR cells with YOUR DNA in them - so it wouldnt likely originate in a Sea Slug organism is it? or be some generic no-DNA cells compatible with your body ?). The more conflicting genetic material, the more messed up you get (and the more damage to your body - tumors etc. BIOSHOCK 2 UNSTABLE PLASMID MODThe mod Plasmids/Tonics add additional DNA or RNA which (to create their 'abilities') and that conflicts with your natural DNA, causing all kinds of problems (like eventual tissue rejection), and is only temporary as you body's own DNA tries to reassert itself. ![]() Tenenbaum didn't have the words to describe it or the modern science to know how ADAM really worked, so gave her opinion of what she observed.ĪDAM really converts your cells back to Stem Cells (unformed cells) so they can be regrown.Įarly ADAM products were medical treatments to restore a person by using their own (original) DNA pattern already in all their cells (ADAM targeted into damaged tissues as a therapy). On an unrelated note if they every wanted to revisit Rapture in a future title that'd basically the perfect quest hook - return and either deploy the cure or return to grab some stuff essential to finishing the research and then deploying the cure. She's actually able to 100% restore one heavily spliced test subject.Īlthough the means are never explained it most definitely seems that it's possible to reverse the effects of ADAM abuse which is actually a pretty big deal. Without spoiling too much of Bioshock 2's Minerva's Den, it's revealed that Tenenbaum is working for a curse to "ADAM sickness" which is her umbrella term for all the negative effects of splicing (physical and mental) and it appeared that her research actually resulted in a decent amount of success. The book hinted that it was entirely possible to refine ADAM to the point where it wouldn't have negative side effects but a deliberate decision was made to not delve down that avenue of research because of the R&D costs along with the fact that unrefined ADAM was still extremely profitable. I personally think part of the reason for this is that so much of the ADAM in Rapture is recycled and unrefined. Fountaine at the end of Bioshock 1 and Alexander Gil of Bioshock 2 are testaments to this. ![]() Naw, massive infusions of ADAM do little to restore people. ![]()
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