#medi-gel

[dragonflight203]

I maintain that humanity inventing medi-gel is absurd.

You expect me to believe that the salarians never invented an equivalent?

It should have been the priority of any species once their science advanced enough. Even the krogan would recognize the value of inventing it.

In my headcanon, the Sirta Foundation just improved it. A better applicator, or a version that works better across multiple species.

[caithyra]

In ME, Humans are healers

So, guess who has binged a lot of Mass Effect fan fiction and found a common thread that annoys me a little bit across nearly every fic that mentions it.

Mass Effect canon since the first game: Medical gel, or “medi-gel” is a gel containing anesthetics and promotes clotting and whatnot. It covers wounds and seals them against infections and water by curing into a hard layer that needs ultrasound to open later by medics for real treatment. It was created by humanity and is technically extremely illegal according to Citadel laws on genetic modifications, but it is yet another case of humanity getting special exclusions from the laws (like how they weren’t exiled like the quarians after Revelation and the Luna training facility and every other time they’ve messed with AI).

Mass Effect fanon: Medi-gel is created by [insert alien race here, most probably salarians] and humanity could never. And humanity’s inability to invent medi-gel is proof of how humans are the primitives of the galaxy!

Mass Effect canon: Has humanity invent medi-gel, cure every single illness and ailment in their species, brings a person back to life from being spaced and burnt up in an atmosphere upon entry and hitting the ground. The most advanced hospital on the Citadel is Huerta Memorial, a hospital built by humans named after a human president.

Mass Effect fanon: *ignores all that* Huerta was there before humanity! Humanity has brought nothing to the galactic table and asks for everything! Also, Udina is a meaniehead who should shut up and be grateful for the Council’s scraps, not advocate for the people who elected him to represent them and their interests... A military man chosen because a single soldier likes him as an ambassador would be so much better than a democratically elected diplomat!

Me: Did we play the same games? Am I the alien here and missing something?

But really, the medi-gel attribution is what annoys me the most, probably because it’s been there as humanity’s thing since ME1. Like, let humanity have their galactic niche as healers in the same way asari are sanctimonious diplomats, salarians are mad scientists and turians are inflexible soldiers!

[crappy-cosplay-blog]

Medi-gel bag for Dr. Chakwas!

[scifigeekgirl]

GUYS! Guys, medi-gel has basically been invented!

[gisgames]

[ferzeldan]

Why do the geth have medi-gel stored on their ships?

I mean, it's very considerate of them to provide healing packs for infiltrators like me, but not altogether wise.

[thisisthelordspeaking]

OMFG OMFG

So people say flip phones were inspired by Star Trek

Veti-Gel was probably inspired by Medi-gel. 

Read the article here

[ryssa-aquicoine]

Taking the “fiction” out of science fiction: Medi-gel is very nearly an actual thing

A substance named Veti-Gel has been developed by NYU student Joe Landolina, which is astonishingly similar to the all-purpose Mass Effect fixer-upper, Medi-gel. Veti-Gel is designed to instantly stop bleeding upon the application of the substance to any open wound, without the need to apply pressure. “In all of our tests we found we were able to immediately stop bleeding,” says Landolina in a recent interview with Humans Invent. “Your skin has this thing called the extracellular matrix,” he explains. “It’s kind of a mesh of molecules and sugars and protein that holds your cells in place.”

Landolina is able to synthesise ECM using plant polymers, which forms the basis of Veti-Gel’s amazing restorative properties. “It goes into the wound and the pieces of the synthetic ECM in the gel will recognise the pieces of the real ECM in the wound and they’ll link together. It will re-assemble into something that looks like, feels like and acts like skin.” The video below demonstrates Veti-Gel’s ability to stop profuse bleeding, but if the sight of blood makes you queasy, maybe you’d be better off taking our word for it.