Dr. Edison, did you compare the number and size of bony spicules in this splinter to a histological section from our victim's skeleton?

The current research into oceanic genetic resources could be divided into the following areas: (a) pharmaceutical: anti-viral, anti-inflammatory and anti-cancer agents; (b) bimolecular materials, such as the composition and production processes of the glue “threads” a mussel used to cling to rocks, which was already being commercially used as a water resistant glue; (c) the growth processes of the nanno spicules (millionths of an inch spikes) contained in the bodies of sponges, which might have applications in the growing of nanno-level silicon microchips for the electronics industry; (d) proteins from an organism that made it unique — Arctic/Antarctic fish had an antifreeze gene that could be implanted into tomatoes to make them frost resistant, or the marsh minnow that was totally resistant to dioxin; and (e) materials used in biological/biomedical research — an enzyme used to identify DNA, genes that facilitated high temperature reactions, or the green florescence of a jellyfish gene that, when attached to another being researched, allowed the site of reactions to be pinpointed physically in a plant or animal.