Lin Sha, Fang Ge and others put down their papers in silence.
"When can I find the key to the shackles of life?" Lin Sha sighed softly.
Fang Ge is not too desperate. She is only 24 years old now, and there are still about 120 years left for her.
The biologists and medical scientists present all understand that it is difficult to achieve breakthroughs in the limits of life. The more technology develops, the more they understand the reverence for life.
Among vertebrates, the Arabian giant tortoise can live up to 250 years, which is almost the limit of vertebrates;
The lighthouse jellyfish among invertebrates can grow in reverse direction when stimulated, making it almost immortal;
The dragon's blood tree among the native plants can live for tens of thousands of years.
But these species have paid a huge price, either dormant for a long time, formatted and reborn, or solidified forever, and they will all lose their intelligence.
Just like the paper by Huang Fan and others, virus symbiosis breaks through the life limit of human cells and stifles reproduction and wisdom.
This huge price is obviously not what Fang Ge and Lin Sha are willing to accept, and the new humans will not accept such a half-dead breakthrough either.
Fang Ge still did not deny the potential of Yinghuo virus: "Although the consequences are serious, we can continue to study symbiotic viruses in depth."
"Should we strengthen the scale of the Mars outpost?" Lin Sha asked.
After weighing it for a while, Fang Ge said: "Okay, just submit an expansion plan to the Scientific Committee."
"Then let Jiahang develop a top-level biochemical laboratory plan and submit it to the scientific committee."
"Um."
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Mars outpost.
17 biological researchers held a meeting to exchange research results in the recent period.
"Group Huang, I read your paper. Is it true that there is no flesh ball experimental subject that can avoid the sequelae?" Du Pengxin asked calmly.
Huang Fan also wanted to have some fish slip through the net, but unfortunately Tianwang Huihui said: "We conducted 12 groups, and a total of 240 meat ball test subjects were not spared."
The researchers in the other two groups immediately started whispering. After listening to Huang Fan's explanation, they realized that it was not that simple to break through the limits of life.
Huang Fan changed this heavy topic: "How is the research of your two groups?"
"The progress of the gene fusion experiment is slow. The X gene and the fluorescent virus can be fused, but after the two are fused, the probability of mutation is very high, and directional mutation is very easy to fail." Du Pengxin said while sharing the experimental report with everyone.
"My side is going quite smoothly. Currently, 574 specific mutated gene fragments have been collected and a special gene bank is being constructed." Jiang Naoren also pulled up the entrance to the gene bank and shared it with everyone.
Based on the idea that stones from other mountains can be used to attack jade, the researchers in the three groups started discussing while browsing these papers, studying the data.
Huang Fan looked through the specific mutated gene fragments. These gene fragments have various resistances or functions, and some are very strange.
For example, this 00412 gene fragment can put cells into a state of dehydration and suspended animation, achieving the effect of sustaining life for a long time.
According to test data, after being symbiotic with this fluorescent virus, once the body is severely injured or is in a harsh environment, the meat ball can gradually enter a state of suspended animation.
In this state, the meat ball is like a fossil, and it is estimated that it can extend its life to more than ten times. Once it encounters a suitable environment, the meat ball will be resurrected with full health.
Jiang Naoto and others even put the meat ball into the simulated space environment machine, and the suspended animation meat ball can still maintain its existence.
Although the life-extending effect of this method is the same as that of a cryogenic freezing chamber, the advantage is that it does not require equipment assistance.
This can be used for emergency evacuation, especially for alien colonies, satellite cities, spaceships, alien expeditions and the like.
Sometimes there may not be a cryogenic freezing chamber nearby. Using this dehydration suspended animation mode can save lives at critical moments.
He marked the idea up.
The high mutation characteristics of the Fluorescent Virus have brought about the genetic diversity of another planet. For new humans who originally only had the Blue Star gene pool and the X gene, it can enrich the reserve of biological genes.
The power of genes combines magic and weirdness, and there are countless secrets waiting for new humans to discover.
After the meeting, Huang Fan returned to the experimental cabin, and suddenly a message reminder popped up in front of him.
When I clicked on it, it turned out that the Science Committee had approved the expansion plan of the Mars Outpost and planned to build a dedicated living research base on the flat land east of the outpost.
The scale is 150 standard cabins, and the standard cabin is a space colonization space standard cabin jointly developed by the Service Committee and the Science Committee.
Standard cabin: cylinder, 16 meters in length and 6.2 meters in diameter. It can be matched with 432 types of prefabricated modules. It is suitable for asteroid bases, satellite cities, and terrestrial planet colonies. It can be transformed into emergency spacecraft, living cabins, experimental cabins, storage cabins, and pilots.
cabin, energy supply cabin, equipment cabin, etc.
The size of the 150-standard cabin is more than twice the size of the current outpost. It seems that the scientific committee still pays great attention and attention to Mars.
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Huang Fan quickly put this incident behind him and continued to study the symbiotic relationship between the Yinghuo virus.
Repairing telomere length can only extend life, but it is difficult to prevent brain degeneration. Therefore, repairing telomere length is only a temporary solution, not a permanent solution.
To prolong life without side effects, we must find ways to repair or reverse gene deletions in chromosomes.
The consequence of every transcriptional division of human cells is the deletion of chromosomal gene sequences. This is why when humans reproduce after the age of 30, the probability of genetic defects in their offspring is higher.
But how to repair the genes of chromosomes is a long-standing problem.
The consequences of reversal cells like that of the lighthouse jellyfish are equivalent to formatted rebirth. This mechanism has little relevance to lower-level organisms.
But for humans, this method is to clone people. They can save the computer through the conscious body, and then clone the body and return to the body again.
Perhaps many people believe that human cloning can achieve an alternative form of immortality, but in fact this is a misconception.
The lifespan of cloned humans is always shorter than that of normal humans because their embryonic cells are extracted from normal humans, which means that the cells have already undergone a certain number of divisions, and these divisions will be accumulated in the cloned human's lifespan.
Suppose a normal person freezes his stem cells at the age of 20 and has a normal lifespan of 150 years.
Then the clone of this person can only live for 130 years at most. If the technology is not mature, it may not even survive 30 years.
In addition, the soul is not immortal. After changing the cloned body many times, the quantum soul will be obviously missing.
This is a conclusion observed by the Quantum Soul Research Institute under the Institute of Life Sciences after a large number of experimental tests. The decay of the quantum soul and the loss of chromosome division are temporarily irreversible processes.
This is the limiter set by the universe, which directly blocks 99.999% of all living things in front of the door of immortality. Those few living things that "break through" the limit are also half-dead.
The longer the lives of advanced organisms, the more detrimental it will be to the balance of the universe, because they will consume more and more resources and may trigger the collapse of the universe.
The research by Huang Fan and others is destined to be a difficult and bumpy road.