BiotiCorp Limited

BiotiCorp Limited is a human medical research and technology company that manufactures diagnostic and surgical systems, medical scanners, and surgical robots. Founded in 2912 by Dr. Ted Santos and Dr. Diyo Nikolas, it is based in Reisse in the Rhetor system. The company is best known for the Calliope reconstruction device, and for its invention of the regeneration technique together with Dr. Aka Ibrahim in 2949.

An Experiment Gone Right

BiotiCorp manufactures a range of medical and surgical devices and traces its roots to the "Decon" lab at the Scaliger School of Medicine in Rhetor. The lab was named for the notorious sensitivity of its hazard detection system and the frequency with which students researching there were trapped overnight for decontamination. It has produced a large number of scientific advances over the last century, and was, in 2912, where doctoral students and future BiotiCorp founders Ted Santos and Diyo Nikolas first met.

Nikolas was studying the effects of quantum travel on the precision of surgical assist robots when she found herself once again locked in the lab by the triggering of a decontamination alarm. Santos, who had only recently transferred to the school, was also in the lab at the time, and panicked when the alarms sealing the lab sounded.

Trying to calm the agitated researcher, Nikolas asked Santos to explain his project to her. Having received a grant from the Navy to investigate Targion disease, a neurological disorder that had been appearing in starmen with long service records, Santos was studying genetic gravitational compression in the hope of finding a cause. By the end of the lockdown, the two had realized that their research was connected.

Three years later, Doctors Nikolas and Santos released a paper in the Rhetor Journal of Medicine proving the connection between the genetic gravitational compression that occurs during quantum travel and the increased fatality rates for transporting emergency patients while in surgery. The work was groundbreaking and immediately affected Search and Rescue protocols. Seeking to capitalize on the discovery, the Scaliger School of Medicine invested in the foundation of a private research center to be run by the pair, and BiotiCorp was born.

The company's first commercial product was a software suite for surgical robots that allowed them to better compensate for the effects of quantum travel and greatly reduced transitory deaths of patients. The suite was almost universally adopted, and BiotiCorp reinvested its profits in additional research, establishing the company's reputation for consistently advancing medicine.

The Cutting Edge

Having moved into a large new facility outside Candalor on Reisse, BiotiCorp continued to release new products. For over three decades, it partnered with researchers and doctors from multiple disciplines to develop advanced medical technologies intended to improve the quality of care across the Empire. Expanding from software into manufacturing, BiotiCorp created its own line of surgical assist robots, branded the AutoDoc. The robots are known for reliable performance under less than ideal conditions, which makes them a favorite of Navy corpsmen and of doctors serving aboard mobile hospital platforms like the Endeavor.

The AutoDoc series briefly drew attention after an attempted assassination of the Governors Council in New Castle. With most of the major Borea hospitals inaccessible in the aftermath of the attack, the injured members were rushed to a Cutlass Red parked on a nearby landing pad. Equipped with BiotiCorp's AutoDocs, the council members were stabilized on board as they were rushed to emergency care facilities. In a later speech, Governor Jesper Donovin credited the AutoDoc with saving his life, and tried, unsuccessfully, to pass a bill that would require one to be installed in every government-operated building.

In trying to further improve its surgical assist robots, BiotiCorp developed its next major product line, medical scanners. Addressing the 2935 Scaliger School of Medicine graduating class, Dr. Nikolas stated that the most important tool any medical practitioner can have is knowledge. By improving scan techniques, BiotiCorp aimed to increase the ability of assist robots and humans alike to accurately determine what is happening inside a patient, giving treatments a higher likelihood of success. Upon its release, the Vitalus Pro MediScan was received with acclaim by the medical community. The Vitalus Pro line of scanners offers clinical parameters for rapid patient analysis and monitoring solutions capable of meeting a range of acuity demands.

There has been concern that, because they are so portable, Vitalus scanners might be considered an invasion of privacy, since anyone equipped with one could learn a great deal of personal information from an unsuspecting person. Lobbyists at the Empire Civil Rights Association have pushed for the Senate to make it illegal to scan someone without their permission, while others counter that such a law would make it harder to provide emergency care. The debate is ongoing, and use of the Vitalus continues to spread.

Not all of BiotiCorp's innovations have been as successful as the AutoDoc and the Vitalus. In 2924, the company introduced a new anti-contamination chamber intended for use at landing zones to prevent off-world diseases and microbes from infecting local populations. The PurLyfe system was in use at customs centers for less than a month when news broke that people processed through the system were getting ill. The system had been too zealous and was removing helpful microbes along with the harmful ones. BiotiCorp implemented a recall and terminated all sales and manufacture of PurLyfe devices. Despite the negative press, public favor remained with BiotiCorp for its swift handling of the problem and for the way the company helped those affected.

Reconstruction

Nikolas and Santos have invested significant company time and resources into what they believe will be their next major breakthrough. Project Calliope, headed by BiotiCorp's chief medical engineer Livia Haskel, is a full-body diagnostic and surgical system with applications in reconstructive and cosmetic surgery. Inspired by her own experience after she was burned in a ship accident, Haskel and her team sought to improve on the physical alteration systems available on the market. While people have been able to adjust their eye color or the shape of their nose relatively easily for years, Calliope is intended to allow people, for the first time, to safely and quickly undergo major structural bone and tissue changes that would previously have taken a team of surgeons multiple operations to perform.

After a presentation to the Senate and High Command by Dr. Santos and Haskel, Calliope was adopted for early trials by the military, with reportedly impressive results. Starmen who would previously have faced life with debilitating scars could now be repaired, or, if the patient prefers, restored to a better condition than before. With positive feedback, Calliope began to make its way to civilian medical centers for the first time. Patients who have experienced the device have described it as life changing. The full social and cultural effect of being able to so easily alter one's appearance remains to be seen.

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