An extremely rare genetic disorder that causes a wasting syndrome in which the body’s cells fail to provide themselves with nutrients. Only five confirmed cases have ever been identified by science. In four of the five cases, the disease proved fatal. In the fifth, that of Sarah Taylor, the disease was cured. The cause of […]
Johannes Morgen was a scientist and medical researcher who founded Morgen Genentech in 1977. The son of a Cascadian mother and a German father, Morgen found his way to medicine by way of an early preoccupation with the way that the vital systems of the body work. Morgen’s curiousity led him to start Morgen Genentech […]
John Mari is the head of Advanced Research Projects for Morgen Genentech. He was appointed to the position in August, 2015. Dr. Mari is the youngest ever graduate of Wimahl Medical University, at just 17 years old. While at Wimehl, he earned three distinct doctorates including two in advanced genetics and a third in viral […]
Formerly the Director of Advanced Research Projects at Morgen Genentech, Klara Lassater was a gifted medical researcher and scientist who was responsible for curing several separate illnesses. She is credited by many with single-handedly stopping the outbreak in 2014 in Cascadia, sometimes referred to as The Great Outbreak. In 2009 she married Elizabeth Haver, a […]
Sahalie was a famous doctor, innovator, and political figure in Cascadia’s early history. Among Sahalie’s most important accomplishments were the invention of the Tenasnah (ten-as-nah; literally “look small” in Chinook), also known as the microscope in English or portée minuscule in Australian French. The bronze statue of Sahalie that sits along the skógr path on […]
The Outbreak refers to an infectious disease outbreak that took place in the Cascadian capital of Pørtland in early 2014. The origins of the disease that caused The Outbreak remain unknown. The disease is known officially as Pørtland Idiopathic Respiratory Disease (PIRD). Patient Zero was believed to have been George Whitmoth, a researcher at the […]