Minneapolis, Minnesota
A Month Later
“No, no. Dr. Rothenberg was not a selfish man. He wasn’t trying to discover a cancer-curing d**g. He wasn’t even researching any diseases at the time he first discovered it. He was a microbiologist whose interest was bacteria. It was by sheer coincidence he discovered the first generation of the d**g. What he was doing was testing a hypothesis. He wanted to know what would happen when dividing bacteria were placed in a strong electric field. It was a simple experiment. Nothing more. He suspended E. coli cells between two platinum electrodes. He formulated a hypothesis that a strong electric field would interfere with the orientation of the bacteria’s chromosome. Once he turned on the electric current, he noticed cell division was inhibited, but what w
