The Science in the Fiction

I’ve seen other examples of my plot devices later validated in scientific research.

Typically in the Metatron’s Army series.

This example is unique not only because it’s part of the Dragon Core series but that it’s medical in nature.

The Scene

The heroine is in pain.  Raven shifter Cayden Vale wants to help.

He pointed at her ribs.  “I can use this connection I have to the universal web to accelerate the healing.  It should reduce the pain.”

“How?”

“I’ll pull some of the web material from the atmosphere and meld it into your body where it will act as scaffolding while your muscle tissue rebuilds itself.” 

Validation

I wrote Shadow of the Gods in November 2019. 9 years later I came across a science article that grabbed my attention because it mirrored a plot device I created from imagination.

From the article

This sounds like science fiction, but tissue engineering is a breakthrough technology that’s already being used to grow human tissue, through ‘scaffold technology’. Scaffolds are porous materials that support stem cells as they divide and grow into new tissues.

From The 25 Most Powerful Ideas of The 21st Century (So Far), Picked By the World’s Top Thinkers, BBC Science Focus Magazine, published November 15, 2025.