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The implications were amazing, he might be able to cure other degenerative diseases by rebooting part of the brain, clearing out the damaged portion.

At the moment the serum was useless as it would totally wipe a patient’s brain back to infancy.

But if h could create a more selective form of the serum to use for a partial reboot he would have a real breakthrough!

He dared not inform anyone of the kind of research he was doing but he had suspicions that other students were aware.

He was quite concerned about somebody stealing his work.

It wasn’t patented and intellectual theft was all too common.

The other problem of course was that all his work was on mice, and when it came to testing experimental drugs on human brains, the restrictions were severe.

Even if he did have a breakthrough it might not go anywhere if human testing was never allowed.