He had to watch as his many serums failed and the mice he injected died twitching deaths or becoming 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 if degeneration in one mouse. In fact degeneration wasn’t even the right word for it. The mouse’s brain wasn’t damaged as in Alzheimer’s and it suffered no physical or sensory symptoms like the other diseases caused. It rather seemed that its brain had been cleaned, erased, but not permanently destroyed. The mouse was able to relearn tasks at the same rate as a baby mouse, it just started over, like rebooting a computer after the hard drive crashed. All the memory was lost but it still functioned.
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