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[ask_aboutcoffee]

Jack, I've finished processing the new intel I weasled out of UNIT on the Doctor's recent visit to London. (I told you I had a reason to get dressed.) (This would have taken less time if you didn't keep -- well, you know

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[bone_lady]

I saw or heard nothing, but to add to that, Ianto also looks good in a suit

:) Great to hear from you too! I would have loved to have been present at some of those alien necropsies. I get excited about anomalies and pathologies in the dissection room so I can only imagine what alien species look like. Sometimes I’ve wonder about some of the decedents I’ve seen. They have interesting anomalies...extra spleens, supernumerary teeth, enlarged livers...

Not calcium-based, not chitin-based -- metallic. Can you imagine the implications on osteopathy alone?
Now that sounds amazing and remarkably like Wolverine. An organism that has an exoskeleton comprise of metal implies, not osteoprogenitors, but some sort of new embryonic cell (new to me anyway), perhaps a “metal”progenitor that produces cell that cause the production of metal or a mineral that is like metal. It could be phosphate, perhaps phosphate crystallized together with hydroxylapatite. Oh! Got it! So in humans osteoprogenitors create the bones that become osteoclasts (bone making cells) and osteoblasts (bone destroying cells). In this organism’s case it would produce cells that create a metal compound which would then be crystallized together through some type of process, like we know osteoid is the precursor to bone, but it takes mineralization to turn it into bone. Perhaps it’s similar in your metal-manta ray except it can produce both metal and bone.

See I’m already thinking about the implications of osteopathy! I’m a geek. I confess. I love my work, I confess. I love all the secrets bones hold.

Thanks for the info on the bones. Humanoids sound like humans...some have more and some have less than 206 depending on pathological fusion (caused by trauma, arthritis, and disease) and congenital shifts and anomalies (that will produce extra vertebrae and ribs and reduce the number). Although the Doctor's just said he has two pelvic girdles (huh?).

God I’d love to see an MRI of the Doctor’s head! That brain has to be impressive (and the accompanying skull complete with sphenoid!). I wonder if changes with his regenerations.

If any odd-looking “human” bones stray my way, I’ll give you and Ianto a holler, by all means. I hope you settle into Cardiff ok. Better there than Dartmoor...near the prison...on the dreary moor.