Chapter 143 The most important task of the laboratory - hatching eggs!
The embryos cultivated by Du Xingyu became treasures of the entire laboratory. Every day, their status was paid attention to by all laboratory members.
Not only that, news has also spread that someone from the Biology Department of Peking University has cultivated dinosaur embryos.
On the campus forum of Peking University, someone posted, writing: "I heard that someone in the Department of Biology has cultivated dinosaur embryos. Is it true?"
First floor: "Are you fishing? How is this possible?"
Second floor: "It's true! I heard it was a graduate student led by Professor Su Yutang! My boyfriend is in their laboratory, and now the entire laboratory regards this as a key project!"
Third Floor: "???Aren't you really here to make fun of it? Dinosaurs have been extinct for tens of millions of years. There is no complete dinosaur genetic map in the world. What should I use to cultivate it?"
Fourth Floor: "Rumors stop at the wise."
Fifth Floor: "It's not a rumor. I have heard of it. It seems that the graduate student project that was chosen was to study how to clon dinosaurs. It has been working on it for more than half a year... As for dinosaur embryos, it should be impossible, right?"
Later, "insiders" came forward one after another to show that this was indeed the case.
"I am from this laboratory, he is our junior. Our tutor has pushed all other things now and is working hard to follow up on this research project!"
This made the top students excited and wanted to prove the truth. In the forum, there were not only top students from all over the country, but also famous professors and scholars.
A doctor from the Department of Biology, Guan Jun, posted a long argument on the forum, and wrote: "I am studying paleontology. I can guarantee that no one in the world can clone dinosaurs. First of all, its genetic information has been lost, and we cannot find any object to refer to. It is impossible to obtain its DNA sequence!"
"Take a step back, even if he obtained the genetic information of dinosaurs through various means, how should he express this genetic information? How to cultivate dinosaur cells, or even turn it into stem cells that can develop into embryonics?"
"As the graduate student in the biology department you mentioned can complete any of the above, even if he does not cultivate dinosaurs, he can still become a leader in the biological science community today! Do you think it is possible?"
"Is it Dr. Guan Jun?" someone quickly replied below, "Ah, Dr. Guan Jun is a well-known scholar in the paleontology community. He said so, that's basically a rumor. Or sensationalism!"
"It's not a good idea for us to argue on the forum. We should find this person and go and argue it myself. I decided to go and ask for this person's contact information tomorrow!"
"I have!"
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Du Xingyu didn't expect that the matter of cultivating dinosaur embryos himself suddenly attracted attention from the whole school. Not only Peking University, but also the students in Qinghua next to him knew about this.
"Hello, senior, I am Si Ya, a sophomore in the Journalism Department of Peking University, and a reporter from Peking University Newspaper." Du Xingyu was stopped when he came out of the laboratory. He was a tall girl with a beautiful appearance. There was also a male classmate holding a camera equipment behind her.
"Is there anything you have?" Du Xingyu looked at her and asked.
"That's it." Siya explained, "We heard that you are doing research on cloning dinosaurs and have already obtained the Tyrannosaurus Rex embryos. The students in our school are very interested, so I want to interview you...it won't take too long."
Du Xingyu hesitated for a while and said, "It's only ten minutes."
"Yes!" Si Ya was ready, and she asked again: "Senior, can you take pictures? If you don't want to show your face, we will put on mosaics later."
"Photo," Du Xingyu said simply, and the camera pointed at him.
"Thank you. Then my first question is, senior, are you really studying cloned dinosaurs?" Si Ya asked with the interview microphone.
"Yes." Du Xingyu's answer was very short.
Si Ya said in surprise: "Wow, it's true. Why do you want to clone dinosaurs, do you think this can be done?"
"The purpose of cloning dinosaurs is to learn and study gene editing and stem cell culture technology to facilitate future application in other fields," Du Xingyu said. "As for whether it can be successful, it can be said that it is half successful now. Because I have cultivated some Tyrannosaurus Rex embryos, and when they develop and mature, they may hatch Tyrannosaurus Rex."
Hearing his answer, Si Ya and the boy in charge of the shooting felt a little unbelievable. The purpose of the previous research was normal, but he actually said that he had really cultivated dinosaur embryos? Maybe he hatched Tyrannosaurus rex?
This is to go against the will of heaven!
"It sounds like the senior is very confident." Si Ya didn't believe it, but she still said: "There are many debates in the school forum about the dinosaur embryos you have cultivated, and many people suspect that it is not a real dinosaur embryo. Senior, can you prove this?"
Du Xingyu said directly: "The cultivation of dinosaur embryos requires strict conditions, and each one is very precious. Now I cannot take it out for you to study. But in more than a month, when the embryo develops into eggs and hatches successfully, I will announce this news again."
"Okay, thank you for your cooperation," Si Ya said, "We will report it truthfully."
Soon, the Peking University University newspaper reported this matter for more than 100 years, and the report was fair. It was written that Du Xingyu was indeed studying the cloning of Tyrannosaurus Rex and had achieved certain results. However, the matter of dinosaur embryos still aroused everyone's doubts.
"This is definitely a sensational!"
"I believe him cloning sheep, or something. I really can't believe cloning dinosaurs!"
"This is bragging. After waiting for more than a month, he said that all the cloned dinosaur embryos were dead, and we can't prove it."
"It's probably just a dinosaur embryo."
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Not only the school newspaper, this news was reprinted by an online media and posted on the Internet.
"Peking University graduate students claim to cloning dinosaur embryos and are expected to hatch Tyrannosaurus rex!"
This news has attracted the attention of netizens. Like the students of Peking University, they are also arguing on the Internet. The mainstream view is still unlikely.
Netizens with great powers found Du Xingyu's Starlight account and found his video log.
Orange: "@SUO, found the account of the student who studied cloning Tyrannosaurus Rex!"
Sledgehammer One Thousand: "You want to clone the Tyrannosaurus Rex? Are you really a student at Peking University? Could it be a fake one?"
Mu Bai: "I originally wanted to spray it, but when I saw the video above, I suddenly felt something was right. What should I do?"
Flying Flying: "Can the author show you the dinosaur embryo?"
Fresh after the rain: "If you can really clone the Tyrannosaurus Rex, then you can make a fortune. Pay attention first and then take a look in a month!"
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Du Xingyu didn't care about the disputes in the outside world. Now is the most critical time, because there is no suitable surrogate mother, the risk of in vitro cultivation of embryos is extremely high.
The twenty-four Tyrannosaurus Rex embryos cultivated by Du Xingyu using stem cells were half dead before they even developed and formed.
The remaining half slowly developed into molded dinosaur eggs, from the dissection of dead embryos. The laboratory team members also found that this was indeed the embryo of some ancient creature!
This discovery surprised them extremely. The entire research group became Du Xingyu's helper, analyzing various data every day to help create a simulated maternal environment suitable for embryonic development.
More than ten days later, after sacrificing seven more samples, Du Xingyu finally got five Tyrannosaurus Rex eggs!
These Tyrannosaurus Rex eggs are between 20 cm and 30 cm in diameter. As large carnivores, Tyrannosaurus Rex eggs are not as large as people imagine.
Because of excessive size, the egg shell cannot withstand pressure and breaks.
"Next, it's time to incubate eggs." Du Xingyu prepared the light incubation equipment and hatched it with an incubator just like incubating eggs.
"The eggs are finally going to hatch!" Pang Yan and others were so nervous. Although this was Du Xingyu's research topic, their whole body and mind are on these Tyrannosaurus Rex eggs.
"The environment in which Tyrannosaurus Rex lives is different from now," said Bao Xian. "Air composition, bacteria, temperature, humidity..."
"Maybe it will die because it is not suitable for the environment and the environment. We must create a biological culture cabin that simulates the living environment of Tyrannosaurus Rex in the late Cretaceous period!"
"We cannot be sure of the specific environment at that time," said Zhu Lianbo. "We need to build a few more training chambers for control variables to increase the fault tolerance rate."
Not to mention them, even Du Xingyu's supervisor, Su Yutang, a well-known professor in the Department of Biology at Peking University and an academician of the Academy of Sciences, ran to the laboratory every day, caring about these five dinosaur eggs.
The hatching process was not very smooth, and three more dinosaur eggs died for various reasons.
In the end, only two healthiest Tyrannosaurus rex eggs remained to continue to develop.
By illuminating the lights, they can see the little dinosaurs in the dinosaur eggs gradually developing and forming.
"In another three days, within three days, they should be able to break out of their shells!" The entire laboratory was excited and stared at these dinosaur eggs at all times.
As the incubation time approaches, the laboratory team members, including everyone in Su Yutang, stayed nervously in the incubation room.
That way, it's like a father waiting for the birth of a child.
Only Du Xingyu was still calm. After obtaining Su Yutang's permission, he used his mobile phone to shoot the incubation scene and broadcast it live on his account.
Due to the previous news effect, about 100,000 more people followed Du Xingyu, many of whom were students from Peking University, Qinghua and other universities.
"Hello everyone, I am Du Xingyu." Du Xingyu said in the live broadcast room. "Today is the day when the dinosaur eggs are about to be hatched successfully. Now I will open the live broadcast and wait for the little dinosaur to break out of the shell."
"I can't be sure when it is, but it should be within five hours."
"Anchor, are you doing it?" An audience immediately left a message.
"Damn it, live broadcast of Tyrannosaurus Rex? Is it true or false?"
"A egg of this big one is not an ostrich egg, right?"
"It's not an ostrich egg. I've seen an ostrich egg. The ostrich egg is not that big? What kind of egg is this?"
"If this can be hatched, I will broadcast X fifth-level electric fan on the Tyrannosaurus Rex!"
"I think it's a model!"
"No, no, right? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, people think this is a dinosaur egg, right?"
More and more viewers are watching the live broadcast, and they are already quarreling on the barrage.
In the Peking University school forum, someone also posted: "Du Xingyu, who wants to clone the dinosaurs, is incubating dinosaur eggs on the live broadcast. This is the address %##... Is it true or false? You can go and see!"
First floor: "He really dares to broadcast live? I'll go and have a look!"
Second floor: "I was just talking about why he has no sound recently. Brothers, I'll go and make a comeback first!"
Third Floor: "It's coming out to hype again? It's not over yet!"
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All of these students rushed into Du Xingyu's live broadcast room to watch the incubation process.
But an hour later, there was no movement in both dinosaur eggs.
"Will the anchor use a model to fool us?"
"Reported, this is a fool!"
Chapter completed!