Editing Infections (section)

==Tips and Techniques==

===Dropper===
When you're adding a chemical to a virus, '''you only need to add a single unit of it'''. This means you can use a dropper to add a single unit at a time, instead of using a syringe and wasting 5 units at a time. Since Liquid Plasma and Mutagen are in limited supply, it is a smart move to conserve your chemicals.
Remember, you have to use the dropper in your hand once to set its transfer value to 1 unit.

===Mixing in Beakers===
While your first instict may be to create a new culture bottle, adding a chemical to it and scrapping the whole bottle if it's not the symptom you want, it is a slow process due to the Pandemic's cooldown. A better way is to instead keep a culture bottle, an empty beaker, and a bottle of your desired chemical; add one unit of culture to the beaker and then mutate it with the chemical, and check the result. Then repeat until you have to replicate the culture bottle: this allows for 20 uninterrupted tries before having to make a copy.

===Isolating Symptoms===
When you get the symptom you want, you can choose to isolate it, by making a new culture bottle with the symptom's name on and storing it in your fridge. You can then move 1 unit of the blood containing the isolated symptom into your work mix to add it. Doing this can make it much easier to build different viruses with the symptoms you have, instead of being locked in a single combination. Even better is if you use synaptizine to remove the base symptom, so you have the pure symptom ready to use.

===Multiple symptoms===
A virus can have up to six symptoms. Having more symptoms can sometimes make the virus less resistant and less likely to spread. The more symptoms you have, the higher chance there is for a new symptom to randomly delete one or more old symptoms when added.