For the next nearly half a month, Xia Xu spent time in the special ward of the hospital. Cui Xinghua and Gu Haiming also monitored changes in the second heart and collected his physical data.
During this period, Chen Leyao came to visit many times, and Tang Youxin also asked for leave and came back several times. After seeing that his body was stable and recovering and there was no abnormality, she finally felt relieved.
Normally, it would take at least a month for heart surgery to recover enough to be discharged from the hospital, or even two to three months, but in fact his recovery speed was far faster than normal.
After storing K protein for two days, the strengthening mode of the second heart begins to operate continuously at low intensity, and the body spontaneously mobilizes nutrients to strengthen the body.
In fact, this strengthening process is also accompanied by a repair process. Just like physical exercise strains the muscles and then repairs and strengthens the body, the strengthening mode of the second heart also stimulates the body's self-healing function.
Of course, it is definitely not up to the level of superpowers like Wolverine and Deadpool, and it is not even as good as the tailed gecko, but it is still extremely efficient to quickly heal some sutured wounds with modern medicine.
Sixteen days have passed, almost half a month, and Xia Xu has been discharged from the hospital. Just in case, it is best to avoid strenuous exercise in the near future.
For this reason, he has already undergone discharge surgery today, but he has not given up on his originally scheduled one-month vacation. He plans to recuperate in Decheng for another half month, and by the way, he is also planning the main direction of Xinghai Biology's next phase of attack.
Needless to say, Gu Haiming said that the second heart project has basically come to an end. After half a month of data monitoring, no defects or hidden dangers have been found, and all functions are operating normally.
The Furious Heart combined with Cui Xinghua's blood circulation transformation plan can be said to be a mature human body transformation technology. In theory, anyone with a K-protein carrying constitution can accept the transformation.
Unfortunately, there are still some flaws in its universality. The efficacy of Furious Heart is essentially based on the special physique of K-protein carriers, which has a relatively small audience. Moreover, cultivating the heart requires the use of experimental monkeys from Inko Biotech, which costs a lot of money.
Starting at tens of millions.
However, these are all considerations based on the scope of commercial products. From a functional point of view, they are perfect enough for now. In the future, the universality can be gradually improved and the manufacturing cost can be reduced.
It's just that these can be left to other researchers below, and it is not cost-effective for top genetic engineers like Gu Haiming to focus on this.
There is no suspense about the next phase of the mission that Xia Xu arranged for him. Naturally, it is the giant glands and related information brought back this time.
The information on the giant glands he obtained from Gardner was not complete, and could even be said to be only a very small part. However, sometimes, technology and achievements cannot be confused.
"So, we can create giant experimental subjects by directly cloning this part of the brain gland sample?"
Xia Xu, who had just been discharged from the hospital and returned to the underground laboratory of Xinghai Biology, received an unexpected piece of good news after learning from Gu Haiming about the progress of giant gland research.
Naturally, he had handed over the information and samples of the giant gland to Gu Haiming when he came back, so during the half month he was hospitalized, Gu Haiming and the others were also analyzing and studying that part of the information in addition to monitoring the condition of the second heart.
"That's the theory."
Gu Haiming nodded slightly and continued: "The brain gland sample you brought back should be the latest sample they are studying and seem to have successful cases.
Although I cannot recreate it from beginning to end due to data loss, it is not difficult to directly use cloning technology to replicate this alienated brain gland, and you can find a cloning solution after trying for a while."
Cloning is actually not a word that is very far away from human beings.
I believe most people have read the story of Dolly the cloned sheep in biology books. As early as 1996, humans had completed the cloning of sheep using somatic cell nuclear transfer technology.
Of course, the textbook says that Dolly died early due to a cloning defect.
However, what the textbook did not say is that only Dolly died, while her cloned sisters and offspring at the same time, as well as the mice, fish, pigs, etc. that various biologists tried to clone in the future, were all alive and well.
Dolly's death was just an exception.
If there were no concerns about ethics and regulations, even cloning humans would not be that difficult nowadays.
Of course, compared to cloning a complete living body, cloning individual organs, especially cloning directly from differentiated tissues without using egg cells, is obviously much more technically difficult.
But this is obviously not a problem for Gu Haiming. Although Furious Heart is genetically modulated, its cultivation process is actually no different from cloning.
Using induced pluripotent stem cell technology, which has appeared as early as 2000 and won the Nobel Prize in 2012, even differentiated cells such as skin and blood cells can be restored into pluripotent stem cells.
Pluripotent stem cells, as the name suggests, are extremely 'pluripotent'. Although they cannot develop into a complete individual, they can theoretically differentiate into any cell type of the organism through adaptive molecular signal induction.
Based on this, and combined with various technologies to provide a growth environment, these cells can automatically develop into tissues and organs according to genetic programs, so not only the heart, but also the brain can be cloned in theory.
Therefore, not only Aquamarine, but also the group of biologists on Earth have great potential if they really want to cause trouble. It is no wonder that they are indispensable in science fiction movies.
Of course, the above is just a simple description, and the real situation of organ cloning is definitely more complicated.
For example, looking for molecular signals that induce differentiation. For example, it is difficult for an organ to develop alone. Normal growth and shaping require corresponding culture and regulation programs. Induced pluripotent stem cells can only differentiate into corresponding individual organs and lack the supply of tissues and organs such as blood vessels and blood.
Nutrients cannot grow too big, etc.
However, these are obviously not big problems for Gu Haiming. As long as he is willing to spend time and energy on research, it is slightly more difficult than cultivating a violent heart.
"Dr. Gu, you said this is theoretically the case, so there should be a but after this, right?"
Xia Xu was not dazzled by Gu Haiming's good news.
"Uh, ahem, this...well, there is indeed a but."
After being exposed, Gu Haiming coughed twice in embarrassment and said: "The data about the giant glands are all from the part of the information you got back, so I can't accurately grasp its true situation unless we also conduct human body research.
Experiment, but this is also..."
The concern on Gu Haiming's face was obvious.
The giant gland was not a violent heart concocted and cultivated by himself, and what Xia Xu brought back was only a very small amount of research information.
Based on this information, he did not have an in-depth understanding of the giant glands. Even some of the known experimental data were obtained through the research data of an illegal organization.
No, it can't even be said to be research data. Those are completely temporary records that have not been officially archived. God knows whether the experimental data recorded in them are reliable or have been verified.
If you want to verify the above data, you can only use the current giant gland samples to conduct biological experiments.
If he wanted to study the giant's glands in depth, he could only conduct biological experiments without real research and development information.
However, this gland is a human brain gland. Even if it is alienated, it can only be adapted to humans.
However, such an experimental sample is completely unknown and may cause various distortions in the human body. The technical details are not well understood. Applying it directly to human experiments is tantamount to a waste of human life.
"Forget it about human experiments. We are not in a hurry. If it doesn't work, we will study it slowly, or I will try again to see if I can obtain more complete technology."
Xia Xu couldn't be as cold-blooded as Gardner. Acting like this would only alienate Gu Haiming, Cui Xinghua and others. Therefore, it was naturally impossible for him to agree to such a thing. He shook his head decisively and continued to ask: "Giant Gland"
Put the body aside for now, what about the epiphyseal restart technology? Is it there?"