Re: Oliver/Maura
Maura's frown deepened as she tried to reconstruct his initial question into any formation of words and clauses that could be construed to mean what his clarification now suggested. But, grammatically, there was no way to do it. Even her own extensive internal grammarian was incapable.
So, she ignored it and focused on the question at hand...as well as it's subsequent and necessary explanation that would need to follow as a result of the Director's very imprecise email. "Potentially hundreds of thousands," she informed Queen. "What I discovered was not so much a few new antibodies, but an entirely new isotype. There are literally millions of possible antibodies in the body because of the hypervariable region on each. All antibodies can be classified into one of five isotypes in humans and most placental mammals, however. Our blood possesses a sixth. It's impossible to tell how many individual antibodies fall under that isotype with such a limited sampling and equipment, or will fall into it as we continue to be exposed to new antigens and further antibodies are created."