Howling:Nanogene

If nanogenes can bring people back to life as said by ninth doctor in the doctor dances and shown by the corpses becoming dalek puppets in asylum of the daleks, then why does the doctor not use them? In every adventure he is in, he could carry some nanogenes with him and heal everyone. From anything, well maybe not things like disintegration. But even people exterminated by the daleks. Throw some nanogenes in there and boom, their all fine. Even tricey could have been brought back to life. --Coop3 ☎  12:29, March 16, 2014 (UTC)

Interesting question. It's worth bearing in mind that we don't know everything about the nanogenes, there's a possibility that they can sometimes malfunction and become dangerous or something. In fact one can argue that they did malfunction and become dangerous in their first episode, because if The Doctor hadn't stopped them by giving Jamie his "mummy" the nanogenes could have turned the entire human race into zombies. 87.102.91.126talk to me 17:54, March 16, 2014 (UTC)

They didn't exactly malfunction but this is pretty much the correct answer. Apart from not knowing the availability of nanogenes or the laws controlling their use this episode pair, the only ones they've been in (the ones in Asylum Of The Daleks may well not be quite the same thing), showed that unless Nanogenes are specifically programmed for the species they are being used on the can make guesses that lead to messy results which may make them more trouble than they're worth. Also it's not clear if any of those people were actually dead when the Nanogenes got to them, it may well be that even nanogenes can't raise the dead.DCT ☎  13:38, March 22, 2014 (UTC)