Chudinov Organisms

thumb|250px|One of the Chudinov Organisms, nicknamed "Chuddie"Chudinov Organisms were nematodes and algae resurrected from 250 million year old potassium ore by Soviet scientist Nikolai Chudinov in 1972, which posessed the miraculous ability of turning invisible to the naked eye.
==Description==
These organisms, primitive algae and nematodes, lived during the Paleozoic era in what will later become the mighty Urals. Somehow, they ended up in a potassium ore (Can happen to anyone!), which 250 million years later, in 1972, in the midst of the Cold War, was found when Chudinov was based in a lab at the Berezniki Potassium Combine in the Ural Mountains, and it's researchers were rather puzzled by the red discoloration of salt deposits at the base of the Ural foothills. The deposits were made up of alternating strata of potassium, magnesium chloride, and sodium, so Chudinov experimented by dissolving away the sodium in distilled water. Upon doing so, Chudinov and his fellow researchers identified the source of the discoloration as the clear fossil structure of algal colonies and nematodes!
Returning to the samples later, Chudinov was amazed to find the microorganisms taking on the semblance of life under the microscope. After being placed in various culture mediums the worms and algae became more mobile, grew and reproduced, apparently unharmed by 250 million years entombed in potassium crystals. Chudinov was even more amazed to find out that they're disappearing, but not really - these Paleozoic microorganisms simply had the ability to pull off some of the most convincing, dynamic colour-shifting camouflage in nature, rendering them basically invisible.
Chudinov's research did not went unnoticed; in 1991 Vladimir Demikhov and Lev Surov injected the DNA of the Chudinov organisms into several Mutant Commandoes, with miraculous results - the melanocyte cells of their skin started to take on the color of whatever was behind them, only changing to their basic form when pain neurons were activated.
Huzzah, real invisibility, previously a science-fiction dream of every scientist, was at last here! But it had it's drawbacks. First off, the DNA of Chudinov organisms was altered by Surov to make clothing, implants and even weapons of the Mutant Commandos fuse with their skin, extending the cloaking camouflage effect to them via microscopic veins running through the entire body. Second off, it could only be applied to organic material - so no invisible tanks or invisible stealth airplanes. Third off, there was very little of the DNA available. And thus the Soviet invisibility technology did not catch on.
Category:Mutants Category:Communist Technology