Just as the Hanhai space shuttle and the landing team were returning from the distant Mars, on the other side, the Xiashu Space Base was also intensively preparing for a 'rescue' operation.
At the same time, the astronauts and scientific research staff at the Yuehuatai Outpost Scientific Research Station base are arranging the evacuation in an orderly manner.
For the microorganisms discovered on Mars, it is currently unclear whether they are infectious to humans, nor whether they will invade the Earth's ecosystem and cause irreparable damage to the Earth.
Therefore, no matter what aspect they consider, it is impossible for them to allow the space shuttle carrying life on Mars and the astronauts who may be infected to return directly to Earth.
However, targeted research is essential, so the Yuehuatai Outpost Research Base with more complete facilities is the most suitable choice.
The moon is closer to the earth, making the transfer of various medical equipment, medicines and related medical personnel more convenient.
And if an infection does occur that threatens the life safety of astronauts, they will be able to carry out rescue operations more quickly and conveniently.
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At night, the deep starry sky has enveloped the earth.
The Xia Shu Space Base was brightly lit at the moment.
The first batch of medical equipment and related treatment drugs and medical personnel have been prepared and have boarded the Fuyao space shuttle one after another.
After following the astronaut's instructions and entering his own room, Zhang Kangshun put the little luggage he carried into the locker, locked it, and checked it over to make sure there was nothing wrong before he felt relieved.
I quickly walked to the porthole and looked out through the not very large window. On the spacious runway, the ground staff were busy conducting final inspections.
Looking at the distant sky, looking at the jade plate that was about to be filled, Zhang Kangshun took a deep breath of the air circulating in the space shuttle.
Although the motherland's aerospace technology has developed extremely rapidly in the past two years, they have established a scientific research base on the moon and even completed a manned landing project.
Even ordinary people have fantasies about traveling to the moon or Mars one day, including himself.
But Zhang Kangshun never thought that this day would come so quickly.
Of course, his trip to the moon this time was not for tourism, but to study microorganisms from Mars.
But no matter what, if nothing else happens, he will probably be the first doctor to receive formal astronaut training and set foot on the lunar soil.
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At the same time, on the other side.
In the United States, located in the suburbs of Baltimore, Maryland, there is a microbial medical research institute covering an area of more than 100 acres.
At this moment, in the Cryobiology Laboratory of the Institute of Microbiology and Medicine, a laboratory as bright as day was conducting freezing experiments.
In the center of the laboratory, there is a row of specially-made cylindrical glassware.
The height of these glass vessels is uniform, about two meters, and the diameter is only fifty centimeters. The base of the vessel is installed on a row of metal equipment, with various buttons and pipes on it.
These pipes snake along the vessels and into the laboratory floor, and it is unknown where they lead.
What attracts more attention is the contents of this row of glassware!
In the transparent cylindrical glass vessel is a light brown translucent liquid, and in this liquid are various experimental animals such as monkeys, Arctic ground squirrels, and North American wood frogs.
If the lights here are not so bright, it looks like a biological research base of a villain biological company.
It would be even more like that if there was a human in these petri dishes.
But in fact, this research institution is a formal microbiology research institute. It was jointly established by the famous Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Johnson & Johnson Technology and is controlled by each.
Needless to say, Johnson & Johnson Technology is a super enterprise with a history of 150 years since its establishment in 1886. It is also one of the most comprehensive medical and health product companies in the world with a wide range of business distribution.
Although most people are most familiar with its Johnson & Johnson baby series products, such as ‘talcum powder’, ‘milk powder’, etc., its core business is actually in the medical field.
In medicine, Johnson & Johnson's business covers multiple fields such as medical technology and innovative pharmaceuticals.
It is no exaggeration to say that its shadow can be seen in almost all fields of human disease, whether it is blood, immunity, tumors, infectious diseases, psychiatry, etc.
As for Johns Hopkins University, if the number one among private medical schools is the well-known Harvard University, then it is the number two.
To date, Johns Hopkins University has produced a total of 29 Nobel Prize winners, more than half of whom are Nobel Prize winners in Physiology or Medicine, which is enough to show its excellence in the field of medicine.
Two top universities and companies in the medical field jointly established a laboratory, and the technology studied in it is undoubtedly the most cutting-edge thing in the field of human medicine.
Such as freezing technology!
The so-called freezing technology is of course not the technology used to freeze food and ice cream like the refrigerators and freezers in ordinary people’s homes.
It is a high-speed freezing technology that uses liquid as a medium and is mainly used on the human body.
Yes, its main application direction and scope is humans.
This technology can keep the diameter of ice crystals in cells below five microns, and has a fast freezing speed. The freezing process does not damage the cell membrane and cell wall. The original state of the cells can be restored after thawing. It is safe, non-toxic, low cost, environmentally friendly, and has no loss.
and other characteristics.
To put it simply, you can think of this technology as the hibernation capsules often used by astronauts during interstellar travel in science fiction movies.
During long space voyages, hibernating capsules can allow astronauts to stay young and travel long distances.
Of course, this is just one of its application directions.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! In fact, in addition to aerospace and aviation, cryogenic technology has always been one of the means for wealthy capitalists to pursue immortality.
It can be achieved by replacing the blood with cryogenic fluid and storing it in liquid nitrogen when the human body is not completely dead, in the hope that it can be resurrected after technological advancement in the future.
This technology is equivalent to pressing the "pause button" on problems that cannot be solved in life sciences, waiting for future technological breakthroughs and then "standby for resurrection".
Through cryo-sleep, the rich hope to escape death and extend their lives.
Of course, there are still some who hope to use cryotechnology to solve currently unsolvable medical problems.
For example, in 1967, 74-year-old American tycoon James Bedford chose to undergo a cryonics experiment after being diagnosed with cancer, becoming the first person to undergo cryonics.
His body is preserved in liquid nitrogen at minus 196 degrees Celsius, waiting for future technological breakthroughs to be able to travel to the future to treat cancer.
However, until the cryo-dormant technology was proposed, there have not been many breakthroughs.
During the freezing process, intracellular water crystallization can cause cell membranes and organs to rupture, causing serious damage to the human body. There are currently no cases of successful survival after thawing, and the technology is not mature enough.
Even at the beginning of the 21st century, it was once abandoned by the capital medical community because there had been no breakthrough for a long time.
However, with China's breakthroughs in aerospace technology, cryo-sleep technology has been restarted by many countries and scientific research institutions.
After all, for the current human space technology, if you want to travel to other galaxies, cryo-sleep technology is almost indispensable.
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Standing in front of the culture vessel, Dryden Porter, the head of Johnson & Johnson, which invested in restarting cryo-dormant technology, stared at the experimental rhesus monkey in the glass vessel that could not tell the difference between dead and alive for a long time.
"Professor Carl, how is the progress of the research?"
Standing next to him, Carl Wilfrid, the head of the Cryobiology Laboratory, smiled and said: "We have already contacted the biological laboratory at Harvard University. In the coming space age, the other party will also
I am very optimistic about cryo-sleep technology.”
"I am trying to reach a consensus with the other party and invite the other party to join our research."
Beside him, Dryden Potter stared at the monkey in the petri dish and said calmly: "That's not what I asked..."
Looking at the 'big man' who invested in their restart of cryo-dormant technology, Carl Wilfrid took a deep breath and said: "I understand. We have successfully treated amphibians such as the North American wood frog and the Alaskan wood frog.
Cryogenically frozen and thawed."
"But for mammals, we have not yet found a good way to maintain their cell viability during rapid freezing and dormancy."
"We have tried extracting glycogen from animals such as Arctic ground squirrels, North American wood frogs, and Alaskan wood frogs and injecting them into test samples of mice and rhesus monkeys, but the effect was not very satisfactory."
"We are currently studying the use of trehalose to simulate the antifreeze effect of glucose in wood frogs, in order to preserve organs and brains under low temperature conditions..."
Looking at the glass petri dish not far away, Dryden Potter's eyes were as deep as the invisible night.
Hearing Professor Carl Wilfried's answer, he said softly: "I don't care what means you use to complete it. I just want to know whether you can complete it and how long it will take."
"Although I have a lot of money, I can continue to throw money into this project, no matter how much you want. But I don't mind letting you know that my money is not that easy to get."
Hearing this, Professor Carl Wilfried swallowed involuntarily.
After being silent for a while, he tried to calm down from his nervousness. He took a deep breath to calm down his emotions and said: "I understand, and I have been doing my best to research this. But in the face of this
There are unsolvable problems all over the world, and we need more time and more funding to break through the doors that block us."
"Cryogenic dormancy technology is a valuable technology that can help more of us realize our dreams..."
Speaking of this, Carl Wilfrid seemed to have thought of something, and jumped straight to the topic: "Maybe I have a way to speed up the research and development of cryo-dormant technology, but it may be quite difficult to obtain the conditions for it."
Although he is a full professor at Johns Hopkins University and has done extensive research in the field of cryo-dormant technology, he is a big boss in the industry.
But he knew very well that in front of those veteran plutocrat controllers, not to mention being a professor at Johns Hopkins University, even being an academician of the National Academy of Sciences was not worth mentioning.
It is no exaggeration to say that even Nobel Prize winners have little resistance in front of these plutocrats.
Only their own people may know how exaggerated the wealth and influence of these people are. Even when facing these established chaebols, White House may not be able to figure out their specific situation.
After all, for more than a century, more than a hundred years, the wealth, connections, influence and other things accumulated by the other party are as intricate as a spider web.
The influence of these established chaebols in their respective industries is beyond the imagination of ordinary people.
The things they have in their hands are sometimes far more terrifying than the countless amounts of money you have.
"Tell me your method?"
Looking at the monkey floating in the petri dish, Dryden Potter's eyes were deep and he spoke slightly moved.
Taking a deep breath, Carl Wilfried said: "Those microorganisms discovered on Mars!"
Hearing this, Dryden Porter turned around, one of the leaders of Johnson & Johnson had a questioning look in his eyes.
Professor Carl Wilfried said quickly: "The environment of Mars is very special compared to the Earth. Its surface temperature can reach more than one hundred degrees below zero in winter. In summer, the temperature near the equator of Mars is
The temperature can reach about 20 degrees Celsius."
"Life that can survive in such a harsh environment with huge temperature differences is believed to have a unique life mechanism for how to adapt to huge temperature differences."
"If we can understand these data about life on Mars, perhaps cryo-dormant technology will be able to achieve a great breakthrough."
"After all, this is a collision of life from two different planets, and the effects it can produce are beyond the imagination of both you and me."
Hearing this, Dryden Potter nodded, the expression on his face seemed to be thinking about something.
After a moment of silence, he said: "I will find a way to get what you need. I hope that after getting these things, you can develop what I want."
Although it is extremely difficult to obtain Martian microorganisms from China, it is not completely impossible for him.
At this time, the authorities and NASA are working hard to restore aerospace relations with the country on the other side of the Taiwan Strait. With the influence of the Johnson & Johnson Group, they may be able to use this as a breakthrough.
However, aerospace is not Johnson & Johnson's major, and he still has to contact other American plutocrats.
Such as Boeing or SpaceX. Only with their influence can he insert his hands into the aerospace field.