Chapter Thirteen
‘The helicopter is ready,’ Evgenia said urgently. ‘We need to move them now.’
‘Wait.’ Olesya gave her the Regen vial. ‘Can you prepare this in a syringe?’
Evgenia examined the amber liquid. ‘What is it? It’s my responsibility to know.’
‘Sophia, can you tell her what’s inside?’
‘An adeno-associated virus programmed to target and switch on particular genes in someone’s DNA,’ Sophia said.
Olesya started to translate, but Evgenia stopped her; she could understand Sophia’s English well enough.
‘This one is called Regen because it targets pseudogenes in human DNA that were also identified in the Axolotl salamander’s genome,’ Sophia went on. ‘These genes code for aggressive regeneration and cellular repair.’
‘I’m not injecting an untested, potentially dangerous substance,
