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Post by moira on Oct 1, 2006 10:30:17 GMT -5
At least the samples numbered 8263LA-1 through 5 were just finishing up as Moira sent out Deadpool's blood to the pathology lab at Edinburg. It would give her something to do while she waited, although she really wanted to get the DP samples taken care of first, because she thought the answer to Lar's problems were in those samples. Still, couldn't take any chances with a blood-born pathogen.
Coming back to her office from the lab, where they were just beginning to go over the results and put them all together for Lar's samples, Moira snapped the mouse on her computer to turn the screensaver off. As she hoped, there was a new email in her inbox.
To: mmctaggert@muirlabs.org
From: hmccoy@un.org
Subject: Weapon X Program
Moira,
It was a pleasure to hear from you again, and I am glad that you and your labs are doing well. It is also good to hear that our friend James is doing well, I've been worried.
As to the Weapon X program, I have attached all of the documents I could find on the matter, including those specific to one Mr. Wade Wilson, aka Deadpool. Luckily for us, he always kept a copy of the records in his DC office, as well as Alkali Lake.
If you need anything that isn't in the attachments, let me know and I will see what I can do. Good luck with your findings.
Hank
Moira clicked on the attachments file and printed them off to read later that night.
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Post by moira on Oct 3, 2006 21:14:55 GMT -5
It was going to be another long night. For the third time, Moira got up from her office chair and made her way to the pot of tea on the hotplate in the lab, pouring herself an over-sized mug worth before settling back down with her feet up on the desk to continue reading the file. It was enormous. The experiments it detailed were horrific, and she didn't wonder that the man in the mask had been quite insane.
She hadn't yet found what information she was looking for, however. She was quite sure that with the pathologists report in hand it would be simply a matter of putting two and two together, but so far she had only one two.
Flipping through yet another collection of "CONFIDENTIAL" title pages, she began reading tech notes, hoping to find some glimmer of information that she could use. And then suddenly there it was, in stark black letters. mRNA, codename 'Wolverine', HIV virus, X-gene. They had simply replaced the RNA of the HIV virus with the X-gene from the Wolverine's DNA. The virus replicated on its own, making all further "boosters" of the virus obselete.
"But where does it tie in with the skin?" she muttered to herself. Had she ever heard of an HIV patient with cancer? Or a cancer patient with HIV? Of course not. In fact, how could you possibly have a healing factor gene and still have skin cancer? The rate of the cancer must be nearly... it must be equal.
Moira slammed the papers down on the desk and sat up straight in her chair as she remembered that Deadpool had said there had been no other survivors. He had been the only one, but his cancer... his cancer had reproduced at a rate equal to that of the virus killing the cells.
What if... what if they could make a virus that carried Leech's DNA the same way, but replaced the receptors to those of the X-gene? Then the virus would attach and Leech's DNA would effectively surpress any activity the gene tried to express.
It would be a permanant cure.
"Eureka," she whispered to herself.
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Post by moira on Oct 5, 2006 18:18:41 GMT -5
For the next 48 hours the lab was non-stop. Samples were being run, results were being scanned over with a fine-tooth comb, phone calls were being made to the pathology lab in Edinburg. Moira didn't sleep except for a few naps in her chair as she waited for results or a return call. By 11am on the third day she was surviving on coffee alone, and it was making her sloppy.
Sitting on the desk before her was a notepad, her writting slanted and quick as she wrote down ideas for the permanant cure on one page, and ideas for fixing Deadpool's skin on the other.
Permanant Cure
Slow mutagentic rate - talk to Path about appropriate virus. Plague? Flu? (too fast) Common cold? (prob also too fast)
Must be safe for our lab to work with.
Genetically engineer receptors to attach to proper X-gene. (Need to make a combo FactorIX/Cure for Lars - Don't Forget! Viable? Stable? Can this even be done?)
How fast do these viruses replicate? Need a slowly replicating virus as well. (are there any that replicate slowly?)
Wade Wilson
Radiation for skin cancer (something that will work slowly - don't want to kill the poor bastard)
Must make a gene suppressor to specifically attach to the virus/gene in bloodstream. Monitor blood everyday for mutagenetic rate and make a new vaccine each time it mutates.
Can the pathology lab predict the mutation? We need a pathology lab. (Talk to Hank about this)
Will we always be behind the virus if it cannot be predicted? We REALLY need a pathology lab.
Moira fell asleep with her chin on her chest and Deadpool's file open on her lap.
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