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Hi guys,
I'm hoping someone can help me out because my scientific knowledge is very limited. I'm outlining my second book (my first goes on sub next week - yay!), and it will be a mystery/police procedural. I have the main plot, but I need some help on an important sub-plot.
I have a character, Emma, who has been awarded a grant by a company to continue research on a drug/compound that she has been working on for some time. She sets up the lab, is funded for research assistants etc and the lab is set up at a university where the company has close connections. There will be another character, let's call him Professor James for now, who is very well regarded in the field and has a long history of collaborations with the funding company. I want Professor James to have carried out some research, which he has published, which suddenly has potential practical applications if Emma's research is successful. Maybe his could be a biotech thing? A drug delivery system that would only be useful if someone could come up with a new drug?
Ultimately it will be discovered the Professor James falsified his research - he was confident that he would get away with it as no-one would look too closely at his work given that there was no practical application.
The book is not going to go into the science in any great detail, but I will need to be able to describe it generally. If anyone could suggest a drug/biotech combination, or maybe a drug/drug combination that would make sense for the plot I'd appreciate it! At the moment I'm thinking of something for Asthma with a new form of sniffer, or maybe a new form of epi-pen.
Thanks in advance!
Maggie.
I'm hoping someone can help me out because my scientific knowledge is very limited. I'm outlining my second book (my first goes on sub next week - yay!), and it will be a mystery/police procedural. I have the main plot, but I need some help on an important sub-plot.
I have a character, Emma, who has been awarded a grant by a company to continue research on a drug/compound that she has been working on for some time. She sets up the lab, is funded for research assistants etc and the lab is set up at a university where the company has close connections. There will be another character, let's call him Professor James for now, who is very well regarded in the field and has a long history of collaborations with the funding company. I want Professor James to have carried out some research, which he has published, which suddenly has potential practical applications if Emma's research is successful. Maybe his could be a biotech thing? A drug delivery system that would only be useful if someone could come up with a new drug?
Ultimately it will be discovered the Professor James falsified his research - he was confident that he would get away with it as no-one would look too closely at his work given that there was no practical application.
The book is not going to go into the science in any great detail, but I will need to be able to describe it generally. If anyone could suggest a drug/biotech combination, or maybe a drug/drug combination that would make sense for the plot I'd appreciate it! At the moment I'm thinking of something for Asthma with a new form of sniffer, or maybe a new form of epi-pen.
Thanks in advance!
Maggie.