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Monthly Archives: June 2015

Can the 'Orphan Black' Project Castor prions be an STD?

Phil Nista
Biology, Science, TV
5 responses
June 19, 2015

In the penultimate episode of season 3, we learned a key piece of information about the Orphan Black clones—the origins of the Castor and Leda Projects lie within a single solitary individual person, Kendall Malone (Alison Steadman). This mysterious woman with a murky legal record is not only a genetic chimera and hence able to...

Can Kira's stem cells save Cosima in 'Orphan Black'?

Phil Nista
Biology, Science, TV
6 responses
June 6, 2015

Times are getting pretty tough for Cosima Neihaus (Tatiana Maslany), the one-woman Clone Club R&D department in the Orphan Black universe. What started out as an irksome cough has progressed into a full-blown autoimmune disorder affecting her respiratory and reproductive systems. In one recent episode (Community of Dreadful Fear and Hate), the extent of Cosima’s...