Xueba's Black Technology Simulator - Chapter 186

c185 universal cell project

There are currently 13 people in Jiangcheng Biological Laboratory. Because of the high level of confidentiality, there are usually dedicated canteen cooking aunts, cleaning staff, and security teams.

These people are not counted among the 13 people. The 13 people in the office are all pure scientific researchers.

Now these people are a little overwhelmed. They have just heard about Lu Xiao’s next scientific research project.

It turned out to be the study of stem cells.

It’s fine if it’s an ordinary stem cell project, they can go to the hospital to find materials, but Lu Xiao said that he needs to extract stem cells from the skin.

This kind of material usually goes to the pediatric department of the hospital and is extracted from some things left after giving birth.

The acquisition of materials is still relatively complicated, and the materials cannot be obtained if the relationship is not in place.

Because this material is very popular.

Especially more than ten years ago, the management was not so strict at that time. Of course, the great effect of stem cells had not been discovered at that time, but some Chinese medicine prescriptions used women’s postpartum T-disc as medicine.

Many people feel that eating this is good.

This is actually a bit like eating meat in disguise, of course you can’t say that, you can also use this thing as a tonic.

Some doctors will ask pregnant women and their family members whether they want to take it away. There are several ways to deal with it. There are two outcomes for pregnant women to take it away. One is to bury it by themselves, and the other is naturally to cook it for the family to eat together.

Doctors will also say that this stuff can nourish qi and blood, and it can also tonify kidney and strengthen yang.

What’s more, the mother and family members don’t need it, so doctors can handle it by themselves, and they can contact institutions that specialize in extracting umbilical cord blood and stem cells for sale.

You can also make your own medicine.

In traditional Chinese medicine, there is a thing called Ziheche, which is made of that thing.

Among the dozen or so researchers, the former leaders naturally left, and the rest were ordinary researchers who worked.

Others didn’t dare to refute Lu Xiao, but there was one who was a little older, seeing that it would be impossible to continue like this, then everyone would be wasting their efforts, and they would be laughed at if they were found out.

The technology circle has long been conclusive about something, but still researching what it does.

What a joke that year!

If Xia Guo did the same thing, maybe he would become a joke.

Du Feng raised his hand, he still respected the young director very much.

To be able to come here, one must either have great connections, or be highly valued, and the last one is naturally a super genius.

Lu Xiao probably got involved with all these situations.

Otherwise, it is impossible to become the only P4 laboratory director in the Mainland at the age of 19.

Even though their laboratory has only been open for more than a year, the level is not low, and the investment is huge.

“Huh? Do you have any comments? Du Feng, please tell me.” Lu Xiao was about to assign a task, but no one expected someone to raise his hand, so he nodded and said.

Du Feng coughed and cleared his throat, and then explained: “Director, this project has almost reached a conclusion in the biosphere. It is impossible to extract primitive cells from the skin. Umbilical cord blood, T-disk, and spinal cord can also be used, but the skin Because the cells are mature cells, they no longer have such a function, right?”

“This is already the consensus of scientists all over the world, why should we study it?”

Lu Xiao naturally knows that this is the consensus of scientists all over the world, but it is wrong!

Ten years later, scientists from the Eagle Country began to study again, and finally found that Haruko Obokata might have really succeeded, but she couldn’t figure it out later.

Eagle Country scientists redesigned the experiment to eventually extract stem cells from any skin.

In other words, any skin tissue can be used for cloning.

Previous cloning techniques did not go this far.

In the hottest era of research on cloning, people used the method of taking the nucleus of a cell and artificially implanting it into another cell egg.

This cell is very particular, not just any cell will do.

In Jurassic Park, scientists obtained dinosaur blood from the lake, cloned it by relying on blood cells, and finally created the dinosaur island.

But this is science fiction, and in reality the technology isn’t that powerful.

But if Lu Xiao’s technical experiment is successful, it is really possible to reverse the gene, transform blood cells into primitive stem cells, and finally rely on these cells to cultivate real dinosaurs.

Many ordinary technical people don’t really understand it.

There are quite a lot of people with the same face abroad, and of course there may be quite a few in China, but it is not recognized.

But there are places out there that admit it.

What should they do when they want to have children?

In fact, there is also a way, that is, through the spinal cord, to obtain jerks, and finally carry out single-sex reproduction!

Of course, because of the unknown risks, the technology of using female bone marrow to produce spermatozoa is not yet on the market. Many experts in the field believe that this technology has huge risks and may cause genetic problems in the fetus, so why do you want to have a baby now? You can only have children by borrowing j.

Any modification of genes, or cloning of anything, is a very dangerous technology that is strictly controlled by countless forces.

Because one thing must be known.

That is our human inheritance, which is carried out by genes.

If because of cloning technology, one of them has a genetic problem.

That may cause problems in the genes of countless people in future generations.

Even more dangerous is the possibility of inheriting various diseases and even contagion.

For example, a person with AIDS makes another normal person also suffer from AIDS.

In Xia Kingdom, there are also new regulations.

That is to stipulate the crime of illegal implantation of gene editing and cloning of embryos. This kind of behavior is not allowed without permission!

What Lu Xiao is doing now is of course within the allowable range. He is performing gene reversal on ordinary cells.

When the reversal is successful, the cells can become useful primitive cells.

There are also many types of stem cells, some of which can also be extracted from ordinary cells.

It is divided into totipotent stem cells, pluripotent stem cells, and multipotent stem cells.

For example, fertilized eggs are the highest level of embryonic stem cells, which are totipotent stem cells.

According to the cell source, stem cells can be divided into embryonic stem cells and adult stem cells.

Tissues where stem cells are found include: bone marrow, peripheral blood, brain, spinal cord, blood vessels, skeletal muscle, liver, pancreas, cornea, retina, etc.

The cells of the skin, which are condemned to death, do not have any stem cells at all.

But in theory it exists, because the original genes of the cells must be the same.

Don’t underestimate the storage capacity of genes.

The small primitive stem cells (embryos) store all the life and biological information of the whole person.

This information also exists in the cells of mature people.

It’s just that because of the initial framework, some cells are responsible for becoming the brain, some become limbs, some become blood, and some become blood vessels.

Finally, the function is distinguished, but it does not mean that there is no original information in ordinary cells.

Lu Xiao looked at the people in the original research institute staring at him with concern, and explained with a smile: “You say, this technology is basically impossible in principle?”

Du Feng was still standing, and Lu Xiao asked him to sit down. Everyone can discuss freely without raising their hands.

This is not a government office, so don’t have such a strong bureaucratic atmosphere.

The place of academics is to be more equal, to say what you have, and everyone can discuss it.

Lu Xiao’s attitude made many people dare to speak. It seems that this young director is not a particularly fierce person.

He can also listen to opinions, and his current attitude is to communicate well with everyone, so everyone will naturally speak freely.

“The director is right. In fact, this technology is definitely possible to succeed. Otherwise, Haruko Obokata couldn’t have fooled so many people in the world. Her experimental evidence has been believed by countless people, but it can’t be done in the repeated laboratory. , the embarrassing thing is that she can’t do it herself.”

“Later, after her teacher committed suicide because she couldn’t bear the pressure of public opinion, this project was basically sentenced to death, but if there is any clear evidence that ordinary cells cannot be reversed, there is no evidence.” A researcher said.

Lu Xiao nodded with satisfaction, and said with a smile: “Have you ever thought about whether this is because some people deliberately let everyone think that this technology has come to an end, and it is impossible to succeed at all, but they are quietly researching it.”

There are reasons to doubt Lu Xiao so much.

The Obokata Haruko incident happened in 2014.

At that time, the project team led by her announced to the world that she had found STAP cells to make “universal cells”.

This is a 31-year-old young man who suddenly achieved worldwide results. This woman is not ugly, so one can imagine how sensational it was at the time.

It’s a pity that after two months, she was exposed as an academic fraud, and the teacher was still an accomplice.

The technology was subsequently condemned to death by many.

Since Lu Xiao came into contact with mature technology in 2030, he naturally asked about the development history.

In the end, I found out that the research started twenty years ago, actually earlier than Obokata Haruko.

It’s just that the research was successful and the technology was not disclosed. Instead, it was deliberately misunderstood by outsiders.

Biotechnology is naturally very important, otherwise Lu Xiao would not be chased and intercepted by so many people in the dungeon world, because he developed genetic medicine.

Lu Xiao’s words silenced the thirteen researchers.

You must know that in the Xia Kingdom, there is no right to speak without investigation, which is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

But have they really investigated and understood this technology in detail?

Everyone seems to have just read the papers and some reports, and finally found that Teacher Haruko Obokata is dead, so the technology must be fake, so there is no need to waste energy.

After being reminded by Lu Xiao, everyone had some guesses.

Sure enough, imperialism will never die!

Of course, this is just a joke. What everyone thinks is that there is probably a laboratory abroad that is doing research at a high speed, and deliberately released some news to mislead everyone, lest everyone compete with him.

In the academic field, competition is fierce.

Especially if they are all working on the same project, some undisclosed technologies are okay, if they need to be made public.

Such as the field of basic mathematical theory.

Two scientists are both solving the same mathematical problem. They have both studied it for decades and spent most of their lives on it.

If the opponent suddenly completes the work.

This mathematical theory is proved.

The other person was so depressed that he vomited blood.

Because it means that this person’s decades seem to have been wasted without any results, and these results are the first to complete the proof.

Some people may be devastated.

Of course, it is impossible for people who do scientific research to be doing scientific research and still not starve to death. Such scientists generally teach in universities or have money themselves.

It’s just a huge psychological blow.

However, excluding research in the basic fields of mathematics and physics, it is really life and death to compete with scientific research on the track in business.

If others research it first, they will apply for a patent first.

In the end, investing a lot of money may have been in vain.

This is especially true in the field of medicine.

Various patent barriers and the risk of research failure are the main reasons for the closure of many backward companies.

Seeing that everyone accepted his point of view, Lu Xiao continued: “Let’s try it out and we’ll know. Don’t care what others report or evaluate this technology.”

“First of all, we must start with the most basic research, and don’t refer to the failure theories that have already been revealed on the surface. Maybe this is something misleading in itself.”

Du Feng nodded. The people here are all scientific researchers in the field of biology.

People who are not in the field of biology cannot enter here.

Their original units are all major secret laboratories, and there is not a single newcomer here.

Imagine that there is only one such laboratory in the mainland, and how fierce the competition is.

Since everyone is talented, they can all participate in the discussion.

Lu Xiao actually knew the answer to the question, and he knew how to conduct the experiment.

But he is still ready to see everyone discuss.

Just to be able to judge how everyone’s level is.

Stem cell extraction is a very simple technique for Lu Xiao. What is really difficult is why there are so many sequelae during genetic evolution.

In the dungeon world, he couldn’t control the mutated cells, so he had to endure intense pain.

Fortunately, he was able to withdraw his consciousness from his body at that time, so he didn’t feel so much pain.

Otherwise, ordinary people would probably die in the first month.

Lu Xiao slowly discovered that everyone’s level was good, and two of them were on the right track.

In this case, Lu Xiao didn’t want to waste any more time. He had a good idea of ​​everyone’s level, and he would be more confident in arranging work in the future.

This time, assign tasks directly.

As the director of the laboratory, a person with almost zero practical experience.

Naturally, he hugged his shoulders and watched the scientific research dogs under him work hard.

It is his job to provide direction and opinions.

Just like an 80-year-old academician who is in charge of a project, is it possible to expect him to be able to practice on the laboratory bench?

This body doesn’t allow it either.

Although Lu Xiao is still young, he can be regarded as an old man. Anyway, if you don’t do practical experiments, you can do anything else.

Theory can increase experience by reading books.

But Lu Xiao has tried it in practice, and it is impossible to do experiments, and the experience value will increase rapidly.

At that time, I will only lose my face.

If there are experience points for everything, wouldn’t it be that Lu Xiao became the world champion after running, and became the boxing champion after punching and punching?

Then everything is possible.

But now, Lu Xiao at least wants to improve his physical fitness, and cannot use experience points to improve with a simulator.

If you don’t want to exercise hard, the only way is to start with your genes.

The development of stem cell technology is only the first step of Lu Xiao’s genetic project.

Lu Xiao needs to have stem cell extraction technology first, then cultivate various body organs, and then directly apply genetic medicine to the organs, so that there is no need for real-life experiments, but still obtain approximate results.

“Du Feng and Zhang Nuo are right. This technical route is feasible. Each of you will bring an experimental group, group yourself, and handle the experimental materials yourself. You can also use your own cells. The specific plan is as follows.” Lu Xiao Start distributing projects confidently and calmly.

Hearing that Lu Xiao seemed to have a specific experimental route, everyone had an idea.

The director wouldn’t have had mature technology long ago, right?

Otherwise, why would you even remind everyone of such details? Then what was everyone talking about just now!

At this time, everyone looked at Lu Xiao with a trace of awe. Just now, it seemed that the director was investigating everyone’s old background.

Du Feng and Zhang Nuo are in their early days. Originally, one of them is just older and the other is just knowledgeable. In fact, they are ordinary scientific researchers.

The wages are not higher than everyone else.

Everyone is suffering at the bottom, haha, but now it is different.

When the new officials took office, Director Lu directly asked them to lead a team each!