Chapter 235, Virus ideas and new situations
In the afternoon in the mountains of northern Los Angeles, four girls from SoS group gathered on the first floor of the wooden house to listen to Alice's report on the experimental results. Although the house was still simple at this time, the living room was filled with enough furniture, and everyone sat on the sand in front of the fireplace.
"Experimental results prove that Caesar's genetic mutation was inherited from his mother, but the degree of mutation between mother and ordinary chimpanzees is only O15, and there is still a fundamental difference between Caesar's O35."
Alice shook the report in her hand. Although it was a report, she only printed it out and played with it: "You know, there is a lot of information stored in the cell DNA chain, and even one percent difference will cause a very large species difference. The gene matching between humans and flies is still 8o, and o18 and o35. From a biological point of view, they can be said to be two different small species!"
"So...what is this?"
Xixi swears that she was definitely not here for the idea of listening to science fiction novels, but the report assigned to everyone was clearly written on the premise that Alice was not making fun of them. The two numbers o15 and o35 were marked clearly in red.
"Did we meet aliens? Or did we encounter mutated creatures in science fiction movies?"
This is not a small problem. Xixi comes to Caesar every few days to play. If the situation is really like Alice said, wouldn't this mean...
“What is the reason?”
Wuya saw Sissi's panic and pressed her shoulder hard: "You are a genius with countless times larger than ours. Since you will explain the situation to us, you must have done everything, right?"
"Brain capacity..."
Alice smiled and still shook the report of a single piece of paper in her hand: "Actually, it was just by chance. I kept observing Caesar's blood through an electron microscope and observing the blood of other chimpanzees at the same time. Through comparison, I accidentally discovered a strange situation."
As he said this, Alice slowed down her speech and said mysteriously: "That is, there is almost no virus found in Caesar's blood."
"Virus!?"
"Is it that Caesar's blood is cleaner? No, uh..."
Everyone was puzzled by this answer. What a big deal about not seeing viruses? But just as Sissi finished speaking, she was waiting to organize the language again, Ashley suddenly slapped her: "Ah, Alice, are you sure you use the words accurately? Have you included viruses, bacteria, and even fungi?"
"No, Ashley, you have a good observation."
Alice gave a positive answer, then waved her hand and said, "Why don't we all go to the laboratory to check it out. Just talking here, your experience is probably not deep enough, how about it?"
It has been a long time since everyone was curious about it. Everyone took the elevator to the seventh floor underground. The floor of the main hall suddenly sank, and the surrounding empty environment was quickly replaced by the light-free cement wall. Fortunately, everyone has experienced it many times. If anyone is allowed to ride it for the first time, they will be scared by this uninterrupted claustrophobic environment!
But even so, Sissi complained: "I've always wondered, I know Alice, every time I take this damn elevator, I wonder why you have to make a good vacation villa and laboratory like an evil oss' nest?
"Of course it's because I'm determined to be a villain Oss."
"Uh... I was speechless."
Everything was just an episode. In a short while, everyone arrived at the laboratory.
The room that was originally arranged randomly has now become well organized. Each table stands against the wall, and is placed with complex machinery made of seven centrifuges. Electron microscopes and supporting computers occupy most of the attention, while the cold storage is in a separate room, properly keeping various samples.
"You see, this is the distribution map of microorganisms in the blood of ordinary orangutans."
Turn on the computer, Alice pointed to the photo above and showed it to everyone.
It was blood per unit capacity, and it could be clearly seen that it was like a red tabletop covered with snow-white rice, with countless white spots covered with light spots.
"At the current resolution, I marked the bacteria, and then this one is Caesar's."
The distinction came out immediately. Only one-third of the bacteria were seen on Caesar's pattern, and the white light spots were extremely scattered. Compared with the former, it was like the bright starry sky and... the night sky polluted by haze.
"Not all bacteria are harmful. In fact, most bacteria and parasites are symbiotic relationships. Although I am not a biological expert, I can imagine that if the number of bacteria in a organism is only one-third of the other people's, it is definitely not explained by a coincidence."
Maiya nodded: "Continue."
Alice operated the computer: "Then it's the distribution map of this virus, you can take a look."
The screen switched again, and this time the resolution instantly dropped to the cell level. I saw a large number of light spots also dotted around between countless red blood cells.
"This is what I came up with in the low-resolution photo of Sang Biao after observing their location more carefully. This is a photo of an ordinary orangutan, and then this photo is Caesar's..."
The comparison appeared again, and the picture of Caesar was almost clean, and the number of viruses was instantly reduced by five times!
"There must be some reason, so I have two guesses at the moment."
Alice said: "One is that Caesar has extremely strong immunity, countless times stronger than any known mammal, and the other is..."
"What's that!"
Xixi couldn't wait for this slow statement: "Speak quickly!"
"It means there is a strong virus in Caesar's body. This virus did not cause harm to Caesar, and used its body as its host to automatically swallow other viruses and bacteria on it."
Looking at the photo in a tangled way, Alice smacked her lips and said, "I just don't know if a creature lacks the parasitic bacteria it should have, will it get sick? Dear, one is that it has special immunity and the other is that it has a grade virus. Which one do you think is more likely?"
There seems to be no suspense in the answer. Xixi said without hesitation: "It must be immunity. Aren't you a strong emphasis on its genetic differences?"
It makes some sense, but Ashley immediately retorted: "If it's just that it's strong immunity, there won't be such a big contrast difference. The difference between gorillas and humans is only 15. If this o35 is just a change in immunity..."
"Then there should be nothing."
Alice said: "The difference between every thousandth of genes is very different at the microscopic level. If the change in immunity is really a matter of only one-third of this o35, it will be enough to eliminate all viruses, but it is obviously not perfect now..."
Actually, Alice herself is mute.
After all, she has limited knowledge of biochemistry, and her current talent trees are all focused on the computer field.
What's more, what she is currently studying is almost the same as studying artificial intelligence in the field of computers, and everything is basically a situation where guessing is basically a situation.
Ashley stared at the pictures and said, "Then let's take a look at the xenovirus first. Since there are so many bacteria and viruses in your sample, it should be very simple to find special species that have not been discovered, right? Although the screen is still dense, it is much faster than if you stare at the DNA chain and find the difference one by one."
This statement makes sense, and Alice immediately made the decision and continued according to this idea.
"However, if you really follow this idea, you can't continue to experiment now."
However, a new problem was immediately put in front of us. Alice looked at the various sets of equipment in the entire laboratory: "Although our equipment is no different from the university laboratory, and it is even more comprehensive than many local professors, we don't have a database after all!"
Everyone reacted as soon as they heard this. Wuya nodded calmly and said, "Indeed, if you don't have the virus database samples provided by the WHO in your computer, you can't compare them at all."
Ashley thought, "Why, Alice, aren't you some contact with the people in the Pentagon? Let them come forward and help you get a copy from the WHO or something?"
Xixi rolled her eyes: "Why is her face so big?"
Alice burst into laughter, operating the computer quickly, and there were many unscrupulous pictures and documents on it: "This is easy to deal with. Just wait until we go to Eton. Although it is just a middle school, personalized education has been fully developed to the extreme. If I find a colonel and ask several chemistry teachers to open a biochemistry research institute with me, I guess there is no reason to refuse, right?"
This sentence is for Ashley to hear, and her head moved quickly: "No problem, no problem! Didn't I tell you a long time ago that the then principal had pursued my grandma back then, and he dared not to do such a small matter!"
Xixi immediately burst into laughter and said slyly, "Haha, Ashley, Master Principal is not waiting for your grandma to favor him, right?"
"Why not? Alice has also seen my grandma, such a charming old lady. Xixi, don't think about Twilight Love too dirty, I can tell it by looking at your expression."
"Am I dirty? You're dirty? Golden Retriever girl, don't think your legs are longer than me..."
"Slow down!"
Alice suddenly raised her hand to stop everyone's laughter.
It turned out that the pager rang.
Alice picked up the thing, looked at it, and then sighed softly.
"The Pentagon asked me to go to their place immediately from the encryption channel, and I don't know what the hell is." To be continued.
Chapter completed!