Medical insurance negotiations are in full swing, and Xinghai Biotech naturally sends Chen Leyao to take action as planned.
As for Xia Xu, he was not good at it and didn't like such occasions. He had no intention of going, not to mention that he had other things to do today.
Early in the morning, he was woken up by Gu Haiming's excited and impatient phone call.
"How's it going, Mr. Gu, what's going on?"
Xia Xu rushed to the Xinghai Biological Research Institute in a hurry.
"It has basically been successful, and all we need to do next is clinical trials."
Gu Haiming came out in person to meet Xia Xu and quickly walked inside, and soon entered the biological laboratory he was responsible for. This place had been separated and occupied a separate floor of the research institute.
After going through complicated sterilization and clothing changes, Xia Xu saw a scene in a transparent glass cage in a sterile room that made him slightly uncomfortable.
Inside the pure transparent glass cage, there is a small macaque, but this macaque is basically in a state of complete confinement and anesthesia. There is no wound on the chest, but there are blood vessels spreading out, and a small dark red heart the size of an egg.
It's beating outside the body.
There is no doubt that this is the ‘second heart’ that Gu Haiming proposed just over two months ago.
"The second heart is actually relatively simple in terms of genetic technology. On the contrary, the organ cultivation is thanks to these experimental monkeys from Inke Biotechnology..."
Gu Haiming introduced the experimental situation and progress in detail.
Biological and medical research has never been a career that can be pursued by those with excessive love, because neither biotechnology nor medical technology can escape the level of clinical experiments.
Before conducting clinical experiments, in order to control the success rate and risk, it is natural to use animals for experiments. Even a medical school professor does not know how many frogs and mice have to be dissected every year.
After all, it is better for animals to die than for humans to die.
As a human being, you should always put people first.
As the species closest to human genes, monkeys and orangutans are undoubtedly the most advanced human substitutes, with a genetic similarity of more than 90%.
However, monkeys are not just ordinary monkeys. To be used in medical experiments and biological experiments, they must first be docile and cooperative.
Therefore, orangutans that are too large and difficult to control are eliminated first, and a few specific species of monkeys are basically selected, such as crab-eating monkeys, rhesus monkeys and other small macaques.
And in order to be healthy enough and have no other factors affecting the experimental results, wild monkeys cannot be used. All monkeys need to be carefully cultivated and bred in a highly clean environment.
Because of this, there are actually many biological companies that specialize in cultivating this kind of experimental monkeys. Even so, the supply is still in short supply, and the market price is increasing day by day. Nowadays, there are basically more than 100,000 monkeys.
However, the experimental monkey in front of me is even more exaggerated, a hundred times more, a full 10 million!
A while ago, when Gu Haiming asked him for money to buy the so-called 'Yingke No. 1', he almost lost his temper when he heard the price.
After all, the three companies were all in the initial stage of expansion during this period, and the capital chain was really not very abundant. If he took out the 10 million, his pocket would be basically empty.
But since he had already boasted to Gu Haiming about asking for money in Haikou, what else could he do? He couldn't refuse to give him money the first time he asked for it, so he could only grit his teeth and agree.
But now it seems that all this is obviously worth the money.
There is a reason why Yingke Biotech dares to call this price. Yingke No. 1 is not a healthy and docile experimental monkey according to conventional needs. On the contrary, it is a "sick" monkey.
Perhaps due to careful breeding and a little bit of luck, Yingke Biotech has developed this kind of experimental monkey with an innate immune disease. It can only stay in a sterile environment for its entire life. Once it leaves, it will be exposed to various threats such as bacterial infection and quickly...
die.
But this is actually good news for medical experiments and biological experiments.
Not to mention, Yingke No. 1 itself has an immune deficiency, and the entire immune system is in an extremely weak or even shut down state. Any drug effects, side effects, and microbial infections can quickly take effect and expand in his body.
This means that any experiment can obtain the fastest and most intuitive results on Yingke-1!
The most important thing is that the absence of an immune system means that there will be no rejection reaction. This kind of experimental monkey is the best biological experimental subject and can be used to cultivate cloned organs regardless of rejection reactions.
To describe it simply, it is like grafting.
Due to the existence of immune systems and rejection reactions between normal organisms, any transplant, even blood transfusions and skin grafts, are difficult and extremely risky.
But plants are different. Many plants can survive perfectly when grafted with each other, and Yingke No. 1 is the perfect carrier that makes organ transplantation and cultivation as simple as grafting.
The entire second heart project has therefore become extremely simple, editing genes, adjusting stem cells, interfering with cell differentiation and proliferation, preliminary culture, and 'grafting' to the Yingke No. 1 experimental monkey for cultivation and maturity.
Uh, okay, it seems to be quite difficult, but it's not very difficult for Gu Haiming.
Although gene editing technology has not achieved the convenient and efficient scalpel virus of Andra, there are actually many less convenient methods besides this, which can be accomplished using homologous recombination and modified nucleases.
, but most of them are limited to professional environments such as laboratories.
Genetic modification sounds very high-end, but in fact, both on the earth and Planet Aquamarine, a large number of products have flowed into the lives of ordinary people.
Let’s not talk about genetically modified fruits and vegetables. There are quite a few pets. The most common ones are those messy luminous fish, which are basically the product of implanted fluorescent genes.
This type of technology may not be mature enough, but it is definitely not mysterious.
It may be difficult to transform adult individuals, but it can be done by transforming cloned embryos using ES cell targeting, EPS cell targeting, CRISPR/Cas9 and other technologies, and it will mature indefinitely.
"We live in the best of times and the worst of times."
Listening to Gu Haiming's talk, Xia Xu couldn't help but feel a little emotional.
This is the best of times, and countless technologies that should only exist in fantasy seem to be only one step away.
But this is also the worst era, because this step may take dozens or even hundreds of years. It may be when they age and die that these technologies will truly mature, be released, commercialized, and enter the public eye.
"Boss, what you said is wrong. It should be said that I was born in the worst of times, and you were born in the best of times."
When Gu Haiming heard Xia Xu's emotion, his expression became even more complicated.
He is truly old.
Although he is actually only over fifty in terms of age, due to mental and psychological problems, his aging is very obvious, and he is not much different from an old man in ancient times.
It's just like the melancholy of old age before you were born and I was born before you were born.
It is obvious that a magnificent and prosperous world can be foreseen, but we don’t know how much time we have left to wait, and whether we can still witness it with our own eyes and participate in it in our lifetime.
"No, Mr. Gu, you are also wrong. It should be said that we have all been born in the best era."
Xia Xu looked at Gu Haiming's melancholy and lonely look and suddenly smiled.
After breaking away from the sentimental indulgence, he realized that he was not on the earth now, but on Planet Aquamarine.
This is a world with countless ‘plots’.
Since it is a world, there cannot only be protagonists and supporting characters, but there are many more forces and characters that may not even be called supporting characters, but are just backgrounds.
For example, in a certain plot, a villain organization develops biotechnology such as biomodification, or a character develops mechanical technology such as robots. There will be a series of related equipment, materials, patents, researchers, technology origins and other derived issues.
The more technology develops, the more detailed the division of labor will be. Even a screw and nut may be developed and produced by a professional group. No matter how powerful the organization is, it is impossible to be completely self-sufficient.
Therefore, whenever an advanced product appears in the plot, it must mean a complete technology and industrial system, which means countless manufacturers, suppliers, and R&D institutions.
In fact, the Yingke No. 1 from Yingke Biotech in front of us is the best example.
This special experimental monkey cannot be called a black technology. It should be just the product of intentional breeding and luck. However, its significance for biological research is extraordinary, and there is absolutely no such thing in the normal earth in his memory.
In fact, this is true even for the Spider Predator he designed. Many of the components used in it were specially customized from groups such as Spot Industries, and its performance is far superior to commercial products on the market.
Whether it is Inco Biotech or Spot Industries, their names may not even be mentioned in each plot, but in reality, they are indispensable "background boards" for the plot to run properly.
It’s just a plot, and a ‘black technology’ involves a large number of companies and institutions, so how many of them will be included in the endless plots around the world?
Nowadays, these companies, manufacturers, and R&D institutions have not shown up. At first, they may be relatively low-key. Various high-tech technologies are still in the experimental stage and research and development stage, and have not yet been truly released or commercialized. The situation has not yet developed to that stage.
Secondly, these companies and institutions only serve as backgrounds behind the scenes. Not only are they not mentioned in the plot, but as mere suppliers or collaborators, their own presence in the production process is also weak.
For example, you know the computer brand, but do you know the manufacturer behind the computer components?
Except for a few manufacturers such as Intel and TSMC, which are still familiar after the Internet developed, 99% of the component manufacturers are probably little known.
Not to mention that behind the components there are also smaller components further downstream. There are a large number of patents and licensees involved in the components, important man-made materials such as photoresist, and basic raw materials such as gold, silver and ferrosilicon. Each of these involves many behemoths, but they are
Each one is silent.
They are not well-known, but it does not mean that they do not exist. On the contrary, they have already spread their roots into the entire era.
And these existences that are not even considered backgrounds in the plot are actually the biggest sources of variation in reality.
Even if what each of them masters is only slightly advanced in some aspects and cannot be called black technology at all, under the influence of multiple layers of superposition, they are countless giant butterflies that set off a storm.
It can be said that even if all the plot ends here, the trend of technological explosion is already rolling in and unstoppable.
Born in this era, he does not need to wait too long! They do not need to wait too long!