Imagine a terrorist strike nullified by the quick administration of a shot that boosts your innate immune system to astronomical levels. Imagine boosters taken like vitamins. And some scientists at UT Southwestern are busy positioning themselves to capitalize on it. The away team in this round of experiments is the Russians of Vector. Each room of CBI seems stocked with street-dressed geeks running computer programs or staring at test tubes.
Nothing is as boring as it appears at first glance.
That clear box is actually a bacteria breeder. That chest-high plastic box is a gene sequencer. The staff has to be smart. They are busy making equipment that other smart people will use to create maps of the genes of disease-causing pathogens. While one third of the center's efforts are devoted to vaccines, the other components deal with gene transcription and genetic analysis.