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Chapter 455 The Secret of the Longevity Gene

The sound of propellers approached from far away, and the helicopter skimmed the water surface, rippling round and round.

The main reason why the adaptation training base is established here is for the climate and to simulate part of the tropical jungle environment as much as possible.

In November, when it is generally autumn in this high-latitude area, the temperature here in Banna is still around 25 degrees, which is very pleasant.

The helicopter parked steadily on the square, and the two mecha fighters got off the plane first. The two robots were more than two meters tall. Stealth effect.

Immediately afterwards, Zhou Lei and another soldier jumped off the plane, and in the end they were the masters of the trip.

……

"You two are so ostentatious..." Mo Gu strode forward, took the excited Qi and Mo's arms, and looked at the two with a smile: "Don't tell me that you two flew here directly by helicopter."

"No, take the passenger plane first." Ye Ming smiled at Mogu, and then shook hands with Zhou Xiangnan: "Old Zhou, do you miss your son?"

"Video every day, it's so annoying." Zhou Xiangnan chuckled, and then let out a western woman behind him: "Let me introduce you, this is from the astronomy team..."

Before Zhou Xiangnan could finish speaking, Ye Ming smiled and called out the woman's name: "Dr. Anne, hello."

"Hello, Professor Ye." Dr. Anne quietly wiped her palms on the hem of the T-shirt, and then reached out to meet Ye Ming: "It is my greatest honor to see you in person."

Her Mandarin is very standard, and her tone is sincere, without the false politeness that Europeans and Americans are used to.

——As a member of the Artemis, she was the only crew member who was invited by the Invitation Moon to conduct joint scientific research and observation on the spacecraft after the Artemis’ material compartment was damaged. honor.

Of course, she soon realized why it was her.

Because of her mentor, Professor Huo Laien - the great scientist who was framed as a "defector" at that time - specially asked Ye Ming for her.

To take Chinese as an example, it is a trip to the back door for her.And Ye Ming also gave "face" very much, so he agreed without hesitation.

At that time, Dr. Anne posted her experience on Twitter and called it a fantasy journey.

However, her circumstances and actions, which should have been praised and publicized, brought great trouble to her and her students after she returned to the ground...

Well, those days are finally over.With the disappearance of the confrontation, her mentor invited many excellent scientific research talents and students to the mainland, and gained opportunities to learn and practice that were simply not available on the other side of the Pacific Ocean.

Of course, as the object of cooperation with him very early, and the student whom Professor Huo Laien took special care of, Dr. Anne's harvest...is the greatest.

——She and her team were one of the first international teams identified by the domestic-led Canglan Star Joint Scientific Expedition Team.

And behind all this...Annie obviously didn't believe that there was no special care of Professor Ye Ming.

Ye Ming shook hands with Dr. Anne, and said with a smile: "If you say that, the old man will definitely criticize you—by the way, the professor asked me to bring you a gift."

Dr. Anne was overjoyed immediately: "Really? What did the teacher bring?"

"I don't know, it seems to be a book." Ye Ming turned around and took a packing box from Zhou Lei and handed it to her. Seeing that the other party was a little stunned, he laughed loudly: "Of course, it may also be for food."

At this time, Ye Ming saw that other people were staring at him, and he immediately raised his hands in a gesture of surrender: "No, you didn't."

"No, Mr. Ye, you didn't prepare any wedding candies for us?" Zhou Xiangnan glanced at Qi and Mo, winked and said, "You're here for your honeymoon..."

Ye Ming didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Nonsense, I just came here to relax with you - let's go, let's go into the room and say, the sun is so hot."

Everyone booed in unison, and then surrounded him into the office.

Ye Ming's visit this time was of a semi-public and semi-private nature, so he didn't greet all the hundreds of people in the base, but only met with the leaders of each team. For the rest of the time, he mostly stayed in Mogu The team's remote control center.

To put it bluntly, he still couldn't completely relax.

Especially when Mogu has started to carry out remote mammalian gene sequencing work.

……

"One of the greatest significance of remote control is to remind us to have multiple generations of spare parts. And robots... really can't completely replace humans to do this kind of tinkering."

Since it is remote control, Mogu didn't wear a white coat, but a shirt casually. At this time, she sat on a chair with her legs crossed, looked at Ye Ming opposite and said with a smile: "That's it!" When it landed, there was only one sequencer available, which made our progress very slow."

"Then how many are you planning to bring over this time?" Qi and Mo asked curiously as they sat next to Ye Ming, with one hand on Ye Ming's arm.

"Three sets, mainly maintenance spare parts and consumables."

"Well, is there anything now..." Qi Yumo glanced at Ye Ming, and after thinking about it, he asked, "A more meaningful discovery?"

The reason why she is so cautious is because she knows that Ye Ming is very cautious in this regard.

Hmm... well, in fact, my cousin is also very cautious.

After all... this involves the so-called "recognizing ancestors and returning to their ancestors".

Hearing this, Mo Gu coughed lightly. She looked back at the students in her group, pulled the chair a little closer, and her expression became a little dignified.

Ye Ming was startled when he saw her appearance, curiosity arose in his eyes.

He knew that Mo Gu was a person who followed biological ethics in her actions—this was why she was a medical scientist, but came to take full charge of the experimental direction in the biological field, and even the entire joint scientific expedition team.

It is related to the fields of biology and genetics, and this step really cannot be taken too far.

"Did you find anything?" Ye Ming lowered his voice subconsciously and asked curiously.

"Because of the time and the intensity of the investigation, we cannot make an accurate estimate of the lifespan of the currently sequenced organism-it is a rodent-like organism."

Ye Ming nodded.

At present, the conditions for scientific research on Canglan Star are extremely limited, and there is absolutely no condition for catching large animals. Therefore, it took a long time for the remote expedition team to find a large animal on Canglan Star in the two months after Xunxing No. [-] landed. A mammal that looks like a mouse—but is much bigger than a mouse.

While keeping observations on it now, it is also the first mammal to be sequenced.

"But among the genes of this organism, we found an extremely high distribution of Sirtuins genes, especially SIRT6"

Ye Ming was startled for a moment, then surprised.

Paint and Ink blinked and became curious: "SIRT6? What is that?"

"A gene that also exists in living organisms on Earth. Its gene expression is generally called SIRT6 protein. The expression tissues are mainly the brain, heart, blood vessels, liver, etc..." Mo Gujian Qi and Mo are still at a loss, Then he knew that his cousin was purely a layman in biology, and she never paid attention to these... so she briefly introduced it.

"SIRT——Sirtuins are a kind of sirtuins widely distributed in cells. Simply put, they are a large family of long-lived proteins composed of a group of proteins. There are 7 subtypes, namely SIRT1~SIRT7. Among them, SIRT6 The main functions are NDA repair, maintaining gene stability and so on.”

Qi and Mo were stunned, then covered their mouths and whispered, "You mean the longevity gene?"

"Yes."

But Ye Ming frowned slightly, he thought for a while and said: "This discovery seems to only show that the gene expression of Canglan Star creatures is similar to that of humans..."

"Yes, but we seem to have discovered a new sub-clan." Mo Gu's eyes sparkled: "Of course, it's just speculation at the moment."

Ye Ming took a deep breath.

He immediately thought of the speculation that he had obtained from the analysis of the remains of the space city——the lifespan of the Canglan Star is generally about twice as long as that of humans.

That is, their lifespan is about 200 years.

The "years" here is a constant time, not the period that the blue star revolves around its parent star—that is, the second-minute-hour defined by the atomic clock time.

"Now we have a guess, maybe as far as mammals are concerned, the Sirtuins genes of all mammals on the Canglan Planet have one more subfamily than ours... um... the creatures on the Canglan Planet generally live longer than the earth .”

Mo Gu looked at Ye Ming: "Now the results have not been uploaded to Aita, and I don't know... Should these findings be announced without confirmation - but what we can be sure of is the longevity gene in this organism There is indeed an additional group of genes, but the expression organization of this gene is not clear for the time being."

After saying that, Mo Gu closed his mouth.

She knew it was a big deal.

——After announcing the prediction on the lifespan of the Canglan Star, she and Ye Ming soon regretted it.

Because... no one can resist the temptation to resist the years and old age.

This temptation is even more deadly than eternal life.

In the past six months, there have been countless voices urging the biological team to decipher the "life code" of the creatures here as soon as possible-these actually accelerated the pace of the entire manned scientific expedition, and it was also the reason why she could dominate the overall situation. one of the reasons.

Of course, she knew about Ye Ming.

The reason why Ye Ming asked her to take full charge of the scientific expedition team was because of her prudence and stability.

Then... She had to think about it and put the news aside for now.

Ye Ming hummed lightly, then fell silent.

He frowned slightly, and looked straight ahead obliquely - if he looked over from the position, it happened to be the position of Mo Gu's thigh.

Of course, everyone knew that he was meditating right now.

After a long time, Ye Ming raised his head.

"Sister, you are right."

"Regardless of the overall lifespan of Canglan Planet's organisms, even...even if we can establish a connection between its gene expression and human gene expression, we cannot rashly step into this field."

Mo Gu took a deep breath, then nodded heavily: "That's what I mean too."

"Are they okay?" Ye Ming then pointed to several graduate students behind the glass window. They were all members of the Mogu team and had been working in the Brain-Computer Center before, so Ye Ming knew them all.

"Should be no problem, you know, I am very careful in recruiting students, but... just in case, I suggest you build a filtering plan on Aita..." Mo Gu closed the mouth after saying that mouth.

Her suggestion... is actually a bit unkind.

Because ATA Academic is an open and fair platform, anyone can display their talents and ideas at will.

Mo Gu, as a tutor, can of course ask the graduate students not to disclose information - but this temptation is not so great.

"Well... I will stay here for a few days, with you, and I will ask them to keep it secret first."

"Well, listen to you!" Mo Gu nodded heavily, and breathed a sigh of relief visibly.

……

In the following days, Ye Ming stayed in the base most of the time, and remotely controlled the genetic experiment with Mogu's team - of course, due to the limited experimental conditions, he could not do much, mainly to help analyze one time.

On the contrary, he spent more time on Sheng Fei's team.

After a month of exploration, Sheng Fei finally found a relatively well-preserved factory, and as Ye Ming expected, the factory did have facilities similar to the life support cabin.

Moreover, through the analysis of the factory's information and circuits, the design of the survival module is exactly the same as the design of the battleship's information circuits.

That is to say, the civilization of the Canglan Star people has indeed combined EEG signals, or biological information technology with production and control.

This discovery has excited the entire academic community.

——This is not only a comprehensive understanding of EEG signals and neural control, but more importantly, the use of biological brains by the Canglan Stars should have reached a new height that humans cannot achieve at present!

Because the human brain cannot control such a complicated process at all!

At the very least, uncontrollable when awake...

Then, they must have another set of methods to stimulate the potential of the brain.

But Ye Ming didn't pay too much attention to these.

Because in his opinion, this practice of treating the human brain as an AI computer...in essence, it is somewhat "inhumane".

Of course, it's also possible that this is a job—maybe it can be used as a "computer" just by lying down and sleeping?
But as far as the technology itself is concerned, the people of the Canglan Star who have distorted the technology tree can't imagine how much miracles can be born after the combination of quantum computers and strong artificial intelligence.

What Ye Ming is most concerned about is actually the extra sub-family.

Yes, he confirmed that there is indeed an extra subfamily in the Sirtuins gene - the first seven subfamily are all highly consistent with the human Sirtuins gene, only the eighth is currently unknown.

Perhaps, this is the secret.

……

Ten days later, Ye Ming left the base and returned to the provincial capital.

The scientific expedition team is also preparing to evacuate the base. After a concentrated vacation, the scientific expedition team will arrive at the Space City collectively in January to live adaptively with the Asterisk and complete the final preparations before going to the sky.

(End of this chapter)