Mariko Kietan

[Sonja]

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Sickness' recorded: Eighty-four (84).
Average length of sickness': Three (3) days each.

Whilst Mariko's abilities and physical resilience to material ordinance is astounding, breathtaking and horrifying at the same time, she has lost a lot of human resilience to disease, infection and treatment. Her biological system is very weak, and she struggles against virus' such as the common cold. However, she never comes close to dieing. All her crucial processes stay the same except for one. Mariko finds it very hard to train when she is ill, even though her interior shows little change. The activities of her pineal gland during an illness decreases dramatically, and we doctors theorise that her pineal gland controls her powers. However, the gland has a different structure to a normal pineal, and is quite immune to traditional forms of treatment.

Upon further analysis of Mariko's blood, it appears that she has a lot more lymphocyte white blood cells than phagocytes. The strategy of her immune system is also different. In a normal human immune system, the lymphocytes simply produce an antibody that clumps the harmful invaders together for the phagocytes to digest when they arrive. However, in Mariko, the lymphocytes produce a different type of antibody, directing harmful bacteria and virus' to non-essential parts of her body. The phagocytes then concentrate in that area as the harmful organisms arrive, and digest them by smothering them, such as an amoeba would do to a source of food.

The way Mariko's body deals with infections is astounding. It trades off efficiency for dealing with quick destroying of invading organisms for the reliability of being able to destroy everything after a period of time. However, the main drawback of this is that she is not very active, and she is very slim. Lately, she has been moved into a clean containment room, to analyse the possibility of her immune system weakening after not dealing with any invaders. So far, no change has been recorded.

Samples of her blood have been taken, and it has been found to have a different composition and pH balance to normal blood. A normal human has blood that is about 7.05 on the pH scale, just on the acidic side of neutral. However, Mariko has heavily alkaline blood. about 11.42 on the pH scale. Such alkalinity is enough to dissolve aluminium, but the walls of her blood transmission vessels have a thin but dense wax lineing, which is proportionally permeable to any substance with a default pH of 8.22 or below. This enables water, oxygen and soluble nutrients to enter the blood.

Also, while normal humans store lipids as fats, Mariko's body stores them as oils. This explains how thin she is, while still having enough energy for training sessions and other menial activites. On top of all this, the amount of blood she has in her body is estimated to be up to two more pints than in a normal human. This explains why the oil produced is not stored under her skin, like fats are in a normal human.

An in depth DNA scan of Mariko reveals a very intriguing fact. Not only do all the pairs have an extra nitrogen atom attached to them, but the first "pair" is actually a triple, as is the last. Both consist of Astatine, Cytosine and Thymine. This is very disturbing, but on a molecular level, the nitrogen on the beginning and end of a DNA double-helix strand alter the binding properties of these three chemicals, allowing the formation of the two triples.

There are many more oddities in her DNA structure (one which includes the shape of the DNA itself) not recorded here. See the file: DNA scan in depth; for the information on Mariko's DNA structure.

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