Twenty-One
Friday, May 20
Sternberg Center for Cancer Cures
Kansas City, Kansas
Thomas was in his lab, trying to polish a new gene therapy protocol with Ivan, his lab tech, before he had to run off to see patients in clinic.
“How could that red tide on Roatán have stored the code for both a Tylosaurus and the enzyme for a cancer cure?” Ivan asked.
Ivan had been working long hours, and his exhaustion thickened his accent and increased his existential questions.
“It’s not the genes you have, but what you do with them,” Thomas said with a chuckle. “Let’s run that protocol again. I think we almost have it this time.”
“Sure. Gotta say, this new CUTR protocol is so much easier than CRISPR. And I’m so glad we put aside that old GTAC you developed. That was almost unreasonable getting the
