October 2028
Keeley stared at the email in front of her in utter shock. While waiting to hear back about her proposal to begin human trials, she had been helping Erica with her research on gene therapy and blindness. She checked her work email account on a whim while waiting for the centrifuge to finish running and now…
"Yes!" she shrieked, jumping up and down as she broke out of her daze.
Not only had she been approved, more than three dozen people had already signed up to participate in the clinical trials. She had expected less than ten; this was completely insane!
"Let me guess, you got approved," Erica said with a smile.
"Thirty-nine people signed up, Erica! Thirty. Nine. For the very first clinical trial! When Mason started his clinical trials on humans last year, he only got eight volunteers in the first trial. Once that succeeded, he got about twenty. Why on earth did so many people sign up right away?"
