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Roxanne was a young multilingual Black woman who was an expert animal psychologist and genetic engineer who taught at Stanford University, where she had been a track-and-field star, after graduating in 1996. Blaine had a history as an experienced field biologist and could fly many types of aircraft. Roxanne had been working at the Zöologischgarten in Basel, Switzerland for three years when she was hired on by [[Charlton Hemming]] in order to clone [[King Kong]] at his company ''Bionimals''. However, Hemming's battered blood sample contained less than 70% of Kong's genome in usable DNA, and as such all attempts at cloning Kong were met with rejected cells and likely congenital birth defects. After years of work, in March of 2006, Hemming called to terminate the project, as [[Jack Denham]], a rival CEO, had just succeeded in cloning the beast, and they prepared to sue him. | Roxanne was a young multilingual Black woman in her mid thirties who was an expert animal psychologist and genetic engineer who taught at Stanford University, where she had been a track-and-field star, after graduating in 1996. Blaine had a history as an experienced field biologist and could fly many types of aircraft. Roxanne had been working at the Zöologischgarten in Basel, Switzerland for three years when she was hired on by [[Charlton Hemming]] in order to clone [[King Kong]] at his company ''Bionimals''. However, Hemming's battered blood sample contained less than 70% of Kong's genome in usable DNA, and as such all attempts at cloning Kong were met with rejected cells and likely congenital birth defects. After years of work, in March of 2006, Hemming called to terminate the project, as [[Jack Denham]], a rival CEO, had just succeeded in cloning the beast, and they prepared to sue him. | ||
The legal battle raged on until December of 2008, when Denham Products and CenCo reached a settlement that would allow Hemming to finance the repatriation efforts for Kong in exchange for split control over Denham's handling with Roxanne Blaine, his chief scientist. In addition to this, Bionimals wanted 50% of the viable genes of species for research. | |||
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Roxanne Blaine is the fictional Chief Scientist of Bionimals, and is the leader of their attempts to clone Kong. She debuted the 2005 novel Kong Reborn by Russell Blackford.
History
Kong Reborn
Roxanne was a young multilingual Black woman in her mid thirties who was an expert animal psychologist and genetic engineer who taught at Stanford University, where she had been a track-and-field star, after graduating in 1996. Blaine had a history as an experienced field biologist and could fly many types of aircraft. Roxanne had been working at the Zöologischgarten in Basel, Switzerland for three years when she was hired on by Charlton Hemming in order to clone King Kong at his company Bionimals. However, Hemming's battered blood sample contained less than 70% of Kong's genome in usable DNA, and as such all attempts at cloning Kong were met with rejected cells and likely congenital birth defects. After years of work, in March of 2006, Hemming called to terminate the project, as Jack Denham, a rival CEO, had just succeeded in cloning the beast, and they prepared to sue him.
The legal battle raged on until December of 2008, when Denham Products and CenCo reached a settlement that would allow Hemming to finance the repatriation efforts for Kong in exchange for split control over Denham's handling with Roxanne Blaine, his chief scientist. In addition to this, Bionimals wanted 50% of the viable genes of species for research.
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