Chapter 700

The young man's face flushed red with embarrassment and a flicker of resentment flashed across his eyes. However, he quickly concealed his emotions and hunched over slightly, his head down and his eyes cast to the ground. He was Hendery Muller, the youngest scientist in the team. He took pride in his academic achievements, but all Alvin cared about was setting targets and demanding results. AIDS and the influenza virus were completely different. The flu spread through the air, with epithelial cells as its host, whereas AIDS spread through bodily fluids, infecting lymphocytes. One virus couldn't host two masters, and the idea of merging them was ridiculous. The flu's genome consisted of about eight negative-sense single-stranded RNAs, while AIDS had two positive-sense RNAs. It was difficult to imagine how they would combine and what would happen after. Still, after countless months of trial and error, Hendery had made the impossible happen. It was a breakthrough worthy of history