Chapter 332 The Price of Longevity
The 167th directional mutation experiment.
Under x-ray irradiation, the original strain of the Fructovirus, whose bases have been modified, is rapidly producing mutations.
"Mustration is completed."
"In triplicate."
The mutant strain was divided into three parts, one was frozen in vacuum, one was reserved, and one was used for replication and experiments.
This mutant virus was injected into the test ball, and the data was immediately connected to the detector of the ball, and the data was constantly refreshed.
Du Pengxin looked at the data of the meat ball and was changing rapidly in the direction they expected.
After 2 hours and 44 minutes.
[Detection completed: x-ray resistance 36%, short-wave laser resistance 12%...]
"It's true." Jiang Naoto said while pulling out the virtual display screen.
The gene sequence before the virus mutation and the gene sequence after the mutation are called out on the virtual display screen, the supercomputer's function of de-similarity is activated, the same parts in the two groups of gene sequences are eliminated, and different parts are retained.
The different parts are mutated gene fragments, and 17 deoxyribonucleotides have mutated.
This mutant gene fragment was recorded and marked with "x-ray resistance 36%, short-wave laser resistance 12%...." These days, they have completed the recording of hundreds of groups of mutant gene fragments.
The 17 of them were divided into three groups, Du Pengxin dominated the gene fusion, Huang Fan dominated the symbiotic relationship, and Jiang Zhiren dominated the mutant gene.
This arrangement is actually related to the previous work of the three.
Du Pengxin used to be responsible for x-gene and biochemical work, and has a very deep foundation in gene fusion work.
The boring and boring genetic fragment test records were naturally done by the calm and calm Jiang Naoto.
Huang Fan was the person who discovered the symbiotic relationship between the Yinghu virus at the beginning, so he was naturally responsible for this research.
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Progress in gene fusion is slow, and Huang Fan's symbiotic relationship research has produced a lot of useful data.
For example, the symbiotic strain of the 24th pair of chromosomes, in order to allow the body to supply energy for a long time and ensure that the virus can survive by itself, the virus actually actively repairs the telomeres length of the chromosome.
In the experimental cabin No. 2, a meat ball that imitated the elderly was injected with a symbiotic strain.
In the atomic imaging scan image beside it, the pair of symbiotic strain chromosomes constantly absorb nutrients and then release some of the descendants.
Just like the symbiotic strain of a worm, it is attached to other normal chromosomes, and then something strange happens, and the virus is accelerating cell division.
With sufficient nutrient supply, human cells completed a division in less than 30 minutes.
Old cells and symbiotic strains that disguise chromosomes apoptosis together, while the "worm symbiotic strain offspring" in new cells form camouflage chromosomes again.
Huangfan reduced the supply of nutrients and lowered the supply level of nutrients to normal people.
Originally, the camouflage chromosome of the child body was copied again, but this time it did not accelerate the division of somatic cells, but released hunger pheromone, causing the meat ball to feel hungry. Obviously, these little things wanted the meat ball to supply more nutrients.
But Huang Fan was not empty because he was comparing the chromosomal telomeres lengths of new cells and old cells, and there was indeed a difference in length between the two.
Generally speaking, the telomeres of old cells should be longer than those of new cells, but the opposite occurs in the cells after being symbiotically caused by viruses.
The telomeres of new cells are significantly longer than those of older cells.
After recording the data in the database, Huang Fan and several researchers once again increased the supply of nutrients for meat balls. Under the stimulation of symbiotic strains, meat ball cells constantly divide new cells and quickly eliminate old cells.
"Incredible!" One of the researchers exclaimed with a scorching look.
At this time, in the air in front of them, they were floating on the virtual display screen, and there were two sets of chromosomes on the virtual display screen.
One group has 23 pairs and the other group has 24 pairs.
The 23 pairs are naturally the state before the meat balls are injected, and the 24 pairs are injected after the injection.
On the virtual display screen, the biggest difference between the two groups of chromosomes is not the extra pair of chromosomes, but the telomere length.
The telomere length of the 23 pairs was already very short, while the 24 pairs were the same as the telomere length of the newborn baby.
If it weren't for the experiment by hand, Huang Fan would probably not believe the order of the two chromosomes in front of him.
The recovery of telomeres length means the extension of cellular life, which is undoubtedly a step further for life science for humans at this stage.
However, Huang Fan was not too happy because the chromosomal telomeres had recovered, but something that had to be faced appeared in front of them.
The chromosome deletion has not been repaired, and the accelerated division of the symbiotic virus further aggravates the chromosome deletion.
The seemingly extended telomeres are actually a combination of symbiotic viruses attached to normal chromosomes.
The sphere cells that had already divided 45 times were accelerated by the virus and divided 3 times. The chromosome deletion level reached 48 times, which was close to the limit of 50 times of somatic cell division.
Can the imitation of telomeres symbiotically prolong life? This is a question worth thinking about.
Huang Fan started the nanorobot, turned off the reproductive base function of the symbiotic virus in the meat ball, and then activated the cell division acceleration stimulator.
Meatball cells divide rapidly, splitting for an average of 2 hours.
After 86 hours, the 43rd generation of pellet cells finally broke down and died completely.
"Minus 50 splits of itself, and those 3 reverse splits, the final increase of 39 splits." Huang Fan was a little tragic while calculating the data.
"Team leader Huang, this is the case with germ cells and brain cells."
Huang Fan took the data report and as expected, although the reverse division delayed the recovery of telomeres and youth, it had to pay a price.
The cost is germ cells and brain cells.
Germ cells are manifested as: after the reverse division is completed, once the offspring is reproduced, the consequence is that the offspring has 100% genetic defects.
Brain cells are reflected in the overall deterioration of brain function, memory loss, mental illness, mental retardation, etc.
Huang Fan put down the report and lamented: "Sure enough, the laws of nature are the most difficult to break through. If you want to live forever, you have to pay a price."
Other researchers were also in a depressed mood. They thought they had found a way to extend their lives, but in the end they were in vain.
In fact, the Lizardman's divine blood potion is an evolutionary route to a certain extent, but the new humans disdain to do this for this opportunistic method.
Because the fusion of divine blood potion is a disguised hybridization between humans and Nibelons, thus gaining part of the bloodline advantages of Nibelons.
Judging from the research on captured lizard men, the lifespan of lizard men is generally around 370 to 390 years, which is three times that of old humans and two.5 times that of new humans.
No wonder those people in the Light will flock to them, especially those of the old human elite, who do not want to always hold power and wealth.
Human beings are human beings. If they lose their bloodline, they might as well perish completely.
Huang Fan, who was full of distracting thoughts, suspended his research work, sorted out previous research data, and then wrote a paper to post it on the internal network.
The Blue Star Life Sciences Institute and biologists soon saw this paper.
Chapter completed!