![]() ![]() There, he labors night and day, trying to appease Masterson while creating major advances in medical technologies ranging from medical serums to "cryptobiosis" (which seems to be a form of cryogenics, the deep freezing of living subjects with a view to reviving them later on). Quint has locked himself away in an abandoned industrial plant that he's converted to a laboratory. If the genetic sequence of the Turritopsis can be cracked, and the appropriate therapy developed for human use, then Quint could save his children and also - more to the point, from Masterson's view - the life of Luke (Lawrence Sampson), Masterson's horribly burned husband. Instead, Masterson suggests that Quint focus on a specific kind of jellyfish - Turritopsis, a naturally immortal creature that doesn't age. Even his powerful and sadistic former employer, Masterson (Kathleen Quinlan), can't get hold of any as she points out, there's a "religious and political frenzy around stem cells" that overshadows even medical intervention for gruesome diseases. Regrettably, despite his repeated pleas, that's not likely to happen. So far, his most promising work lies in raising transgenic pigs from which to harvest transplantable organs, but he could do so much more if only he had some human stem cells to work with. Peter Quint (Henry Ian Cusick, "Lost"), the protagonist of the science / horror thriller "Chimera Strain," is a desperate scientist trying to save his children from a disease that destroys the body's organ systems. ![]()
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