Both stopped, upon hearing the question, both researchers turned, only to be met with the Mandalorian by Zephyr and the Jedi quickly after Zephyr. The one-armed woman was the first to speak up, "fairly broad subjects" commented Inira a little taken back by the question, didn't the Mandalorians get the tour? Frankly, she couldn't remember.
"But, I'm currently working on Cytokines & Growth Factors in the cellular levels in humanoid bodies. It signalling molecules that bind to specific receptors on the surface of their target cells and induce signalling pathways, which then regulate an array of biological processes. Numerous diverse molecules are categorized into different families of cytokines and/or growth factors. With that said, Chemokines are a large superfamily of mostly small, secreted chemotactic cytokines that function in leukocyte trafficking, recruitment and activation. They also play a critical role in many normal and pathophysiological processes such as allergic responses, infectious and autoimmune diseases, angiogenesis, inflammation, tumour growth and metastasis, and hematopoietic development. " explained Inira, giving a short summary of what she was working with.
Looking to her colleague, Kla'ak had been working on his data-workpad while Inira explained her work. When the focus went to him and Irina didn't talk his ears off, he looked at both Zephyr and Kara. Fixing his glasses that had moved down a bit on the bridge of his nose, he thought for a second.
"Well, if you must know. My subject or multiple subjects I'm working on is that of RNA interference also called
RNAi for short. Also on
Post-Transcriptional Gene Silencing as it is a conserved biological response to double-stranded RNA that mediates resistance to both endogenous parasitic and exogenous pathogenic nucleic acids and regulates the expression of protein-coding genes. It's quite curious how the natural mechanism for sequence-specific
gene silencing promises to revolutionize experimental biology and I think it may have important practical applications in functional genomics, therapeutic intervention, agriculture and other areas" explained Kla'ak, though not nearly as enthusiastic as Irina.
"You're welcome to tag along, but we're just going to continue our work," said Irina and waited to see if they agree or said no. Regardless, whether the Mandalorian and Jedi wanted to go with the two researchers, they would still head back after waiting a bit for an answer.
~~~~~~ Meanwhile back at the crew entering the derelict ship ~~~~~~
With Cas holding his lightsaber high above his head, the surroundings received a bright glow from the blade of Cas's sabre as they slowly moved inside. It was strange, but nothing seemed out of the ordinary in the open corridor right at the beginning by the blast door. While the door in the corridor for the office, was half knocked off its hinges, nothing out of the ordinary could be found in the office.
Zenor looked at Isabeau with a raised eyebrow, "we're not here to search a small office room, but the whole ship if can" told the security officer to Isabeau and didn't enter, but stood watch. Barnet, with the axe over his shoulder, stood with his free hand in his pocket and kept watch over Dawil, who just took a peek inside.
Upon entering the office room, it was a medium-sized room, filled with computers and machines that looked very much scanners to screen through suitcases and other like-minded objects. If Cas decided to get a more thorough search, he would find lots of desk, office chairs and mostly everyday objects one would find in an office-like building in an industry.
Not feeling particular in an adventurous spirit, only stayed by the door and waited for Cas and barnet to return from their searching through the office. One thing Cas along with Barnet quickly notices, was the fact that all the screens were shattered, but everything else was untouched. "Odd, very odd" commented Barnet, bowing a bit forward to get a closer look at the destroyed monitor screen.
Watching Isabeau slowly making her way down the corridor, Zenor popped his head inside of the office door, "let's move, I don't like this and there's nothing in there" he whispered with a stern tone and with the blaster at the ready, he stealthed his way after Isabeau. Dawil looked inside the office and then down the corridor at Isabeau and Zenor. Deciding to follow Zenor, Barnet soon exited the office and headed after the rest.
Upon meeting the end of the corridor, it split into two other corridors, one heading left and one heading right. If the group looked down both corridors, they would just see more hallways as far as the corridor went and from where they stood, it looked like those hallways split into more corridors. However, Zenor noticed something both alarming and oddly not. Placing a hand on Isabeau's shoulder in an attempt to get the woman's attention and would nod towards the floor right in front of them. Long wide blood lanes started where they stood and then continued down the right corridor, before disappearing into a room with a door ajar.
However, it was dried up blood and looked like it had been there quite some time. Kneeling down, Zenor examined the extensive dried up blood, "whoever was pulled back into the ship, tried to claw themselves free" commented the security officer and took various pieces of nails between his fingers to get a better look. "The hell happened here?" Asked Dawil, looking at the nails, seeing minor torn human flesh still attached to the nails, while others were broken into smaller pieces.
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