“Good call. There’s the active ingredient, which is a dead virus, part of a live virus, a less problematic but similar one…”
Iain’s eyes unfocused, and I could almost see the calculations going on in his head. “And what do viruses do?”
“They inject their DNA into a cell and cause it to replicate little viruses.”
“So what if a virus was to be engineered to do that, but to cause the cell’s DNA to express CLS symptoms if that propensity were there?”
“As in a viral vector? You know, that makes sense. Instead of using the viral vector to inhibit the patient’s CLS gene expression, it enhances it. CLS is recessive, but with the vector, only one of parents needs to have the gene.”
“So why kidnap the children?”
“Because adolescence is when the CLS really takes off along with the expression of
