"What do you mean?"
Jude's simple remark made Stephanie uneasy. Though they had not known each other for long, and he was rather arrogant, he did not seem to have made a single mistake.
"It means exactly what it sounds like. I'm not the one who's wrong. You are."
"Let me guess. Some young researcher suddenly discovered this polymerase fragment, got excited and immediately informed all of you. Then, eager to proceed, you ran the experiment and found that, hmm... not bad, the results were theoretically correct."
Gulp!
Stephanie swallowed, and Dr. Liu frowned as well. The man in front of them might be irritating, but he had gotten every detail right.
"Do you know why I guessed that? It's simple. I went through the same process on the first day. The difference was that I wasn't blindly confident. I chose to dissect it more deeply."
"Guess what I found. Hidden beneath this polymerase was a ligase. When I applied an ATP catalyst to it, latent DNA fragments were released from within the ligase."
"The 3'-OH and 5'-P ends of the bases in those DNA fragments are reversed. That is the real culprit behind the genetic mutations."
"As for the DNA polymerase you found, it was merely a smokescreen. More accurately, it was a failed byproduct from the process of formulating the mutation serum. It can cause genetic mutations, but the gene chain will quickly collapse."
"If you give those people the antidote, I guarantee that the lucky ones will undergo secondary mutations. The unlucky ones will collapse and die on the spot."
After speaking, Jude calmly drank his wine, leaving the lab-coated researchers staring at him with suspicion, shock, and blank disbelief. Stephanie was no exception.
Jude had always been cautious when it came to biotechnology, because Grandpa Rick's