The comic · Genetics of Disease (GenD)

Week 21 of 22

DECEMBER 11 TO 16

Fiction. No real student, family or grade appears.

Drawing, panel 97: Emerging-tech debate.

How much testing before a new technology reaches patients. Speed against safety, and the people harmed by delay are invisible in a way the people harmed by a bad device are not.

Panel 97Emerging-tech debate · 2026-12-11
Drawing, panel 98: Scaffolds and stem cells.

Scaffold for shape, cells to populate it, signals to tell them what to become. Then the different stem cell types and what each can and cannot do.

Panel 98Scaffolds and stem cells
Drawing, panel 99: Xenotransplantation and bionics.

Animal organs and mechanical replacement as two different answers to the same shortage, with different failure modes and different ethics.

Panel 99Xenotransplantation and bionics · 2026-12-14
Drawing, panel 100: Design analysis.

Analyzing a real device against what the patient actually needs rather than what is technically impressive.

Panel 100Design analysis · 2026-12-15
Drawing, panel 101: Design critique.

A written critique naming one strength, one weakness, and one thing that would have to be true for it to work.

Panel 101Design critique · 2026-12-16
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