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Olalla's legacy: twentieth century vampire fiction and genetic previvorship (2010)
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Wasson, S. (2010). Olalla's legacy: twentieth century vampire fiction and genetic previvorship. Journal of Stevenson Studies, 7, 55-81

Although Robert Louis Stevenson’s short story ‘Olalla’ does not use the word ‘vampire’ at any point, it contains a cluster of motifs that have led critics to identify it as a vampire tale: specifically, a character addicted to drinking human blood an... Read More about Olalla's legacy: twentieth century vampire fiction and genetic previvorship.

Rheometry and associated techniques for blood coagulation studies (2007)
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Evans, P. A., Hawkins, K., Lawrence, M., Williams, R. L., Barrow, M. S., Thirumalai, N., & Williams, P. R. (2008). Rheometry and associated techniques for blood coagulation studies. Medical engineering & physics, 30(6), 671-679. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.medengphy.2007.08.005

This review considers various rheometrical approaches that have been adopted to study blood coagulation, with special reference to the rheological assessment of clotting time and studies of the evolution of viscoelasticity during the course of fibrin... Read More about Rheometry and associated techniques for blood coagulation studies.

Love in the time of cloning:  science fictions of transgressive kinship. (2004)
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Wasson, S. (2004). Love in the time of cloning:  science fictions of transgressive kinship. Extrapolation, 45, 130-144

This article presents a discussion on science fiction related to cloning. Science fiction has long played with the notion of the doubled self, and the speculative potential of the double was extended when the term "human cloning" entered cultural par... Read More about Love in the time of cloning:  science fictions of transgressive kinship..