The Healing Miracle of Angel Blood
How do wounds heal on their own?
The average person suffers about 10,000 injuries over a normal lifetime. This includes small cuts up to major traumas that require surgery. Most of the time, wounds are automatically repaired by our bodies. Sometimes the healing process goes awry which subjects people to chronic injuries and wounds. This is usually in cases involving aging and pathologies such as diabetes.
In The Last Angel To Fall, the blood from an angel is used to heal a wound that would normally be fatal. According to Jubal Stone's friend and genetics exprt, Toby Barton, angel blood is a “cure-all” for the repair of even life-threatening wounds. The angel blood seeks out the damage and swarms to heal the wound.
In real life, Oslo University Hospital researchers led by Emma Lång and Stig Ove Bøe, performed experiments on blood-deprived cells that were then exposed to blood serum. The cells began to move and grow in the same direction as soon as blood serum was added. Assistant Professor Liesbeth Janssen and master student Marijke Valk from Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) developed a matching simulation model which has provided new insights into the mechanics of wound repair. The results were published in the journal Nature Communications. (Journal citation below.)
In my novel, Toby tells Jubal that the angel blood contains a blueprint that can health wounds of all the humans, animals, plants and insects on earth.
Excerpt from The Last Angel To Fall:
Toby gulped down the remainder of his third shot of whiskey and sat up straight. "It regenerates tissue of whatever body part it's in. The samples I've got started growing things before I put them in a cryogenic vault.”
"It regenerates tissue, you said. What was it growing?”
"Limbs, organs, brain, everything, if I've analyzed it correctly,” Toby said.
"That only happens on the SyFy Channel,” I said.
"Wrong,” Toby said. “The genomes of the animal kingdom are my specialty, Jubal. There are creatures in nature that can do just that.
The axolotl can regenerate limbs, its lower jaw and heart, even parts of its brain,” Toby said.
"I've never heard of anything like that.”
"Not only that, but it creates new connections in the brain to support the regenerated body parts. ” Toby poured himself another drink.
"I've always thought it's an amazing world we live in, but never more so than today.”
"What's your conclusion?”
"Whatever it is those samples came from is unprecedented. It has characteristics of humans, animals, insects and plants. And it regenerates its tissue and cells. Everything. It's a walking A to Z chimera."
"Chimera?”
"An animal combining characteristics of two different species. It comes from mythology. Only this thing has characteristics of more species than I can count. It's DNA is like a kludge of every species on earth, and that's scientically impossible,” Toby said.
"What's your conclusion? What is this thing?” I asked.
"I can't identify something that's never been cataloged, but if you're chasing after this thing, I wouldn't want to be you for anything in the world right now. I don't know if this thing even can be killed because it's constantly regenerating, repairing and maintaining itself. I'd say it's immortal.”
End Excerpt from The Last Angel To Fall
Different molecular components in blood activate tissue repair after an injury. Blood begins to clot to stop bleeding and a scab forms which protects the wound from infection. Then the immune system is triggered to prevent infection. Blood vessels open to bring nutrients and much-needed oxygen to heal the wound. The white blood cells will swarm over the infection to kill germs and begin repairing the wound. In the Nature Communications paper, the authors described what happens when dormant skin cells contact blood when no wound is present. Blood serum induces spontaneous migration and growth of cells which are important aids in the healing of wounds. The study shows that the presence of blood serum is enough to activate dormant skin cells and stimulate them to move and proliferate, no wound required.
Human blood is a self-repairing fluid that activates to repair most non-traumatic and non-fatal wounds in human beings. In The Last Angel To Fall, angel blood goes one step further. If introduced into the wound in time, it can heal traumatic and fatal wounds.
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About
Brian
G. Walsh is the author of The Last Angel To Fall, volume one
of the Jubal Stone Series of urban fantasy novels.
Walsh is
also the author of No Place For Mercy: An Eclectic Anthology,
a collection of short stories readers have compared to the writing of
Stephen King, Edgar Allan Poe, Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, Rod
Serling and others.
Journal Reference:
1. Emma Lång, Anna Połeć, Anna Lång, Marijke Valk, Pernille Blicher, Alexander D. Rowe, Kim A. Tønseth, Catherine J.
Jackson, Tor P. Utheim, Liesbeth M. C. Janssen, Jens Eriksson, Stig Ove Bøe. Coordinated collective migration and
asymmetric cell division in confluent human keratinocytes without wounding. Nature Communications, 2018; 9 (1)
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-05578-7
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