Unlike most research being done on how to prevent the diseases, Eric was actually focused on how to cause them.
Eric believed that if he was able to figure out how to cause them, he could then learn how to prevent them.
It was tolling work. He had to watch as his many serums failed and the mice he injected died twitching deaths or became blind and erratic.
Finally, though he was making progress, major progress.
Eric had discovered that while he could not yet see a way to cure the diseases,
he did develop a way to trigger what seemed to be an entirely different kind of degeneration in one mouse.
In fact, degeneration wasn’t even the right word for it.