PRESS CONFERENCE TRANSCRIPT - MICHAEL WERNER, 07 DECEMBER 2028
Ladies and Gentlemen, good evening, welcome to the Forge Institute. My name is Michael Werner, you'll no doubt be more familiar with my colleague, geneticist Kate Sams. It will soon become clear why I am introducing this press conference rather than Kate.
For many years, our work here has delivered incredible advances in the field of organ and limb transplantation. With the discovery and development of The Forge we effectively tore up and rewrote what it meant to replace damaged and missing tissue with the ability to print and graft perfectly compatible organs, tissue and indeed entire limbs from a patient's own genetic code.
Our most recent discovery, borne from tragedy, will again change everything.
Kate Sams and her team have, for some time, been further expanding The Forge, as a tool to remove and rebuild in-place, giving surgeons the ability to repair patients' damaged limbs and organs right there on the operating table. no more transplants, no more lengthy rehabilitation. Limb amputation and replacement would become a streamlined one-procedure process. Simply scan the patient and the forge gets to work rebuilding what's broken.
During a routine calibration, Kate left the lab while The Forge analysed and scanned the sample genetic pattern - her genetic pattern. It was during this brief moment when tragedy struck. Kate slipped atop the stairwell and fell. The fall was significant, severe and unfortunately fatal. Kate was mercifully killed instantly.
Ladies and Gentlemen please, settle down and please, please understand and forgive my apparent coldness.
I feel it's poss-Please! No questions yet! Please under- Okay. I think it's best I hand over to a colleague now. Please welcome to the stage... Kate Sams.