Chapter 585: Advances in Life Research of Ye Ziqiu
Li Chuan's quantum identity commanded this expedition at the bridge command on the front line, and he himself was still on Earth. However, except for a few people, what the outside world knew was that he was leading the United Army to fight against alien civilizations at this moment.
The technology of special living organisms is still in the top secret stage, and very few people know about it.
Life Science Room.
Nowadays, Li Chuan and Ye Ziqiu are outside an isolation laboratory. The two are standing in front of a larger projection screen, and the display panel lists a large amount of life gene information data.
In the isolation laboratory, a snake-like human creature lies on the anatomy table.
Ye Ziqiu swiped a page on the main screen in front of him, looking at the information data on the panel and said: "Boss, in my research on the organisms of indigenous intelligent organisms of β-planets, I found that their functional cellular tissues have amazing similarities with our human embryonic stem cells. Their proprietary asymmetric cell division and replication characteristics are the key to having a tenacious survival ability."
"That is to say, they have amazing resilience?" Li Chuan said.
"So that's it."
"Are you studying Professor Yan's powerful hormones?" Li Chuan looked at him with a suspicious look when he heard this, and couldn't help but laugh with a joke: "Why, your supervisor's powerful hormones have just been popular for a few years, and you are about to get on the top?"
"No, although the effects are all about restoring living organisms, they are completely different. Positive hormones are just a stimulation of external drugs, rather than fundamentally changing the gene sequence. If humans do not consume potent hormones, the wound will not heal quickly. However, snake-like people are born with this ability. Of course, the resilience of snake-like people is not as exaggerated as powerful hormones." Ye Ziqiu shook his head and explained: "And, this is not the core theme of my research, but just some characteristics found during the desolation process."
While speaking, Ye Ziqiu immediately slid the projection screen again and listed a honeycomb-shaped cell tissue picture, which was a micrograph of the tissue cells of the snake-like human body.
The cells of snake-like human organisms are arranged in this honeycomb shape, not like thin and long muscle cells in humans or flat and oval bone cells.
Ye Ziqiu signaled Li Chuan to look at the panel data and said seriously: "This honeycomb-like structure shows that most of these cells have no other functions, and should be specifically responsible for differentiation and regeneration of other tissues. The similarity with embryonic stem cells undoubtedly points out its omnipotence."
"Let's talk..." Li Chuan actively slides the projection screen panel, which is covered with Ye Ziqiu's personal logs recorded by his research stage, with more than a thousand pages, and the latter continued:
"About asymmetric cell division and replication, human genes are double helix structures and are completely symmetrical when they divide, so a cell can only divide into two cells at a time. This asymmetric cell division in snake-like humans has the ability to divide one cell into multiple cells."
"My goal is to transfer this ability to humans. The DNA of snakelike humans is also double helix. Multiple points can be replicated at one time at a time to produce more than one group of genes. In fact, mammals on the earth also shorten the cell division cycle through multiple points at the same time, but the gene fragments responsible for each point do not repeat, so as to splice into a complete chromosome group. I think humans need to change slightly at this point to divide multiple cells at one time, thereby obtaining super strong self-restoration ability. Of course, it will not be as simple as it is said to be in practice."
Li Chuan, who was browsing Ye Ziqiu's personal diary, was stunned, stopped, and for a moment, looked at him in surprise and said, "Good boy, your ambition is really great. Do you want to transform and reorganize human genes?"
"If implemented, this is definitely an extremely grand life genetic engineering." Ye Ziqiu suddenly said excitedly: "If it was a whimsical and unimaginable dream in the past, but now, the boss, the self-evolution of snake-like people has undoubtedly given human life science great confidence. It tells us that this is feasible, and this alone is crucial. I firmly believe that we can do it too, because from the perspective of the essence of life, humans and snake-like people have many commonalities."
Speaking of this, Ye Ziqiu called out a new data panel to cover his personal log and said: "My recent research has been trying to decipher the life code of snake-like humans. I am immersed in the long river of life and gradually uncovered mysteries of 'black boxes'. When I get a glimpse of its interior, I admire nature as the most beautiful designer, and any exquisite machine designed by manpower can be compared with it."
"So, what are your progress?" Li Chuan said concisely.
Ye Ziqiu quickly mobilized relevant research data on the data panel and continued: "The evolution of life on Earth is concentrated in the inheritance of the alternation of old and new among ethnic groups, and is inherited from generation to generation. While snake-like people have the characteristics of "inheritance", their individuals are also evolving themselves."
"At first, we thought it was an exceptional case, but we found that all the samples of the decomposition were... very old. The youngest one lived in more than 600 years. The Greenland Sleeping Shark, the longest living entity on Earth, is only over 500 years old. But the two cannot be compared at all. Greenland Sleeping Sharks maintain low energy consumption due to their life activities, while snake-like people are completely opposite. Their consumption even exceeds all known species on the earth, including dinosaurs. Normally, their average lifespan can only last about 30 years, at most half a century. But in fact, even if we find the oldest sample in the decomposition, it has lasted for more than 2,000 years. The living organism is still in a very active stage, equivalent to the young and middle-aged man? Perhaps earlier..."
Li Chuan was also surprised. He didn't expect that the life of the snake-like human beings was so exaggerated. Ye Ziqiu opened up the conversation and started talking nonstop, and said: "Taking human telomerase as an example, I conducted research on the ribonucleoprotein complex reverse transcriptase composed of RNA and proteins of snake-like human beings. These three parts..."
Ye Ziqiu introduced his research results to Li Chuan in the corresponding data panel, saying: "Telemolecular RNA, telomerase binding protein, telomerase activity catalytic unit tert. Telomerase tert uses telomerase RNA sequence as 3-aauaau-5 as the terminal replication template to synthesize telomerase DNA sequence 5-ttaggg-3, and add segments to the end of the chromosome to maintain the length of chromosome telomeres DNA."
Speaking of this, Ye Ziqiu looked at Li Chuan and said, "All my research over the past few days has guided the same final answer to continue to evolve. Organic living organisms will age and deplete. This is because of the shortening of the length of telomerase, but continuous evolution can continuously integrate and recombinant living organisms. As long as a living individual can maintain a state of continuous evolution, the life cycle will reopen. Simply put, as long as the evolution of living organisms remains continuous, the living organism will basically not die naturally, at least in theory."
"This is incredible, but this is the path taken by snake-like creatures. I firmly believe that in order for human civilization to rise in the universe, it must inherit the perfect evolutionary inheritance of snake-like creatures. The life cycle of more than a hundred years is too short for humans, and looking at the scale of the universe is even more blinking."
Li Chuan couldn't help but look at Ye Ziqiu and looked at him for a long time. The latter also scratched his head and smiled awkwardly and politely.
"Actually, all your research tells me the final answer..." Li Chuan said, and Ye Ziqiu beside him immediately looked at him.
"The answer is...funding."
“…”
Ye Ziqiu suddenly fainted. His brother-in-law's last sentence made him feel suffocated. This wave of operation was really unexpected.
But even though that was said, Ye Ziqiu couldn't refute it. It was indeed necessary to have funds. It was quite embarrassing to be seen through this little thought in his heart at this glance.
Li Chuan teased for a moment, cursed his smile, and his eyes fell on the research logs on the projection screen. These can be said to be priceless treasures.
"I'll leave this life research project to you. Funding is not a problem. The most important thing to do with me is funding." Li Chuan made a decision to respond directly.
"Really?" Ye Ziqiu's eyes were lit with excitement.
"Of course, but I hope it can be completed as soon as possible. Your brother-in-law also wants to live for a thousand years and ten thousand years, huh?" Li Chuan said with a smile.
Ye Ziqiu suddenly felt a lot of pressure and said weakly: "That, this may take time, and I can't guarantee that it will succeed... If that's true, boss, you can enter the low-temperature frozen dormant, and it's only a matter of time before humans enter the door to continuous evolution."
"If you don't succeed, I will, so will you." Li Chuan said, immediately uploading his more than 1,000 pages of research log to a private server, and suddenly murmured: "Ziqiu, multicellular higher organisms, including human life activities, is undoubtedly a highly complex metabolic system, but when you focus too much on a certain mechanism, a certain protein, or a certain information pathway in the life process, it is often easy to forget the overall complexity of life activities and ignore some basic laws of nature."
"I always believe that the evolutionary process of life is through interaction with the surrounding living environment. The limit of human lifespan has long been written into our genes, forming an inseparable whole that moves the whole body. If we want to change the existing human genes, we may have to go back and redesign a new genetic blueprint. This path is not easy, comparable to the power of the Creator and a god-like means. The difference is that our goal is to create ourselves and define ourselves."
Has it been over again? Redesign? Ye Ziqiu couldn't help but lit up. Li Chuan's small reminder was like opening the door to a new world for him. He nodded heavily: "Thank you, the church, I will keep it in mind."
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Chapter completed!