After his experiences in Monster Blood, Evan has a series of nightmares relating to animals. His friend Andy has kept some monster blood and the two decide to bury it in the woods. Despite their doing so, the monster blood ends up getting dug up and fed to a hamster who becomes gigantic and starts destroying things.
Evan Ross has been dropped off at his elderly aunt Kathryn's house for a few weeks while his parents visit Atlanta. In a novelty store, Evan finds a metal can labeled "Monster Blood". The shopkeeper tries to stop the purchase and tells him not to return the item. The can is filled with green slime, which seems to breathe, and eventually grows to enormous amounts.
Organ Transplantation and Blood Transfusion in Twentieth-Century America
Organ transplantation is one of the most dramatic interventions in modern medicine. Since the 1950s, thousands of people have lived with “new” hearts, kidneys, lungs, corneas, and other organs and tissues transplanted into their bodies. But, even before the 1950s, American surgeons had attempted to treat catastrophic disease or injuries using tissues and organs retrieved from the bodies of other people and other species.
Vergil Ulam's breakthrough in genetic engineering is considered too dangerous for further research. Rather than destroy his work, he injects himself with his creation and walks out of his lab, unaware of just quite how his actions will change the world. Bear's treatment of the traditional tale of scientific hubris is suspenseful and a compelling portrait of a new intelligence emerging amongst us and changing our world irrevocably.
While studying grizzly bears in Waterton/Glacier National Peace Park on the border of Montana and Canada, ranger Anna Pigeon finds herself in the midst of a series of deadly bear attacks that leave her struggling to re-evaluate her own view of nature.
