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So Leo sent Derek an e-mail concerning what Brian and Marta persisted in calling the exploding mice
problem. Derek (according to reports they heard later) swelled up like one of their experimental subjects.
It appeared he had been IVed with two quarts of genetically engineered righteous indignation.

тАЬItтАЩs in the literature!тАЭ he was reported to have shouted at Dr. Sam Houston, his vice president in charge
of research and development. тАЬIt was inThe Journal of Immunology , there were two papers that were
peer-reviewed, theygot a patent for it ! I went out there to Maryland and checked it all out myself! It
worked there, damn it. Somake it work here. тАЭ

тАЬтАШMake it workтАЩ?тАЭ Marta said when she heard this story. тАЬYou see what I mean?тАЭ

тАЬWell, you know,тАЭ Leo said grimly. тАЬThatтАЩs the tech in biotech, right?тАЭ

тАЬHmmm,тАЭ Brian said, interested despite himself.

After all, the manipulations of gene and cell that they made were hardly ever done тАЬjust to find things
out,тАЭ though they did that too. They were done to accomplish certain things inside the cell, and hopefully
later, inside a living body. Biotechnology,bio techno logos; the word on how to put the tool into the living
organism. Genetic engineering meant designing and building something new inside a bodyтАЩs DNA, to
effect something in the metabolism.

They had done the genetics; now it was time for the engineering.

So Leo and Brian and Marta, and the rest of LeoтАЩs lab, and some people from labs elsewhere in the
building, began to work on this problem. Sometimes at the end of a day, when the sun was breaking
sideways through gaps in the clouds out to sea, shining weakly in the tinted windows and illuminating their
faces as they sat around two desks covered by reprints and offprints, they would talk over the issues
involved, and compare their most recent results, and try to make sense of the problem. Sometimes one of
them would stand up and use the whiteboard to sketch out some diagram illustrating his or her
conception of what was going on, down there forever below the level of their physical senses. The rest
would comment, and drink coffee, and think it over.

For a while they considered assumptions the original experimenters had made:

тАЬMaybe the flushing dose doesnтАЩt have to be that high.тАЭ

тАЬMaybe the solution could be stronger, they seem to have topped out kind of low.тАЭ

тАЬBut thatтАЩs because of what happens to theтАжтАЭ

тАЬSee, the group at UW found that out when they were working onтАжтАЭ

тАЬYeah thatтАЩs right. Shit.тАЭ

тАЬThe thing is, it does work, when you do everything they did. I mean the transference will happen in
vitro, and in mice.тАЭ

тАЬWhat about drawing blood, treating it and then putting it back in?тАЭ