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    reGENESIS
    reGENESIS
    reGENESIS
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    reGENESIS

    By Linzé Brandon

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    The human species is dying out, and the scientists are sitting with their hands in their hair. Nothing is working, not the old medicines, nor the latest surgical techniques.
    Until one day during a meeting of a World Health Organisation committee, a young scientist came up with the idea to explore the use of genetic engineering. A few scientists researched the idea and came up with the solution to manipulate the fundamental code of life: the DNA helix. It worked, but there was an unexpected side-effect.
    Would people keep fighting the plan for their future survival, even while they continued to die out?

    This story is also available as part of the Storm Anthology Volume I

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMuses and Broomsticks
    Release dateApr 30, 2014
    ISBN9781311341495
    reGENESIS
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    Linzé Brandon

    Teaching herself to read before she went to school was the start of her life-long love affair with books.Trained as an engineer, Linzé has worked as a specialist engineer in two fields of engineering. Thereafter, she was self-employed, working as a consultant to commercial companies exporting their products to other countries.When the economy forced her back into full-time employment, she worked as a systems engineer and senior project manager at a company that designs and manufactures products for the military industry.In January 2019, she left her full-time job to enjoy the challenges of self-employment once more. Now she spends her days doing competence training, career development and retirement coaching, and engineering consulting work.Although she still loves to read, she also enjoys counted stitch embroidery, t’ai chi, archery, fly fishing, drawing, painting with pastels, her husband's medal-winning photographs, and watching Manchester United play.She is one of the moderators of two Facebook writers' groups, and leads the Pretoria Writers' Group, who boasts several published authors in various genres.Linzé Brandon lives in Pretoria, South Africa, with her engineer husband and German Shepherds who are convinced that the world revolves only around them.

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      reGENESIS - Linzé Brandon

      reGENESIS

      by Linzé Brandon

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright 2014 Lizette de Vries-Venter

      ISBN 9781311341495

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      Table of Contents

      Chapter 1

      Chapter 2

      Chapter 3

      Chapter 4

      Chapter 5

      Chapter 6

      Chapter 7

      Chapter 8

      About the Author

      Chapter 1

      There was a sense of despondency in the room unlike any Dr Robert Hayden had ever seen. As the representative of one of the western nations at the World Health Organisation this was not his first meeting. For more than thirty years he sat at this table with sixty three other representatives, discussing the decline in human health.

      Some meetings ended with a glimmer of hope, others not so much. Today however he knew, as the others did, that there was not a lot of hope left.

      The species, homo sapiens sapiens, was dying out. Simple colds killed people. Non-life threatening allergies killed people. To say nothing of the more serious diseases like AIDS, cancer and various strains of influenza. Everyone feared that the next plague would be the last straw.

      Medicine had nothing more to offer.

      Antibiotics were not working any more. It was not that they were less efficient, but that they had no effect at all. Babies were born without the necessary immunity cells from their mothers. Birth defects were increasing, without any explanation of environmental or parental genetic factors. Even people living in fairly pristine ecosystems, with clean water and naturally farmed food supplies were suffering. Less than the rest obviously, but that too was on the increase.

      Humanity was finally starting to pay for all the poison and toxic substances it had been pouring into itself for generations. Even doctors and geneticists of the highest intellect could not perform miracles on a species, out to destroy itself by any means possible.

      He ran his hand over his face. Like his depressed colleagues, he had no answers.

      They even ran out of questions to ask.

      The gavel of the chairman of the meeting met its block. It sounded more like the final nail in the coffin than the lunch break announcement.

      We will reconvene at two, the man's equally tired voice followed.

      Despite the depressed feelings over the discussions in the meeting, people were a little more enthusiastic over lunch. The food was excellent, as always, and the mood definitely benefited from that.

      Robert waved at a few old

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