Armor Frenzy

"What?" One brother almost thought he was hallucinating. Could it be that he was under too much pressure recently?

"New puffed virus." The secretary spoke clearly.

The first brother and Qiu Tianning looked at each other, and it took a few seconds before they came back to their senses.

"Go!" The first brother got up and walked quickly, "Contact the laboratory immediately!"

The secretary quickly replied: "Director Xu and Professor Qin are both online."

Several people rushed to the conference room, and the first brother couldn't wait to ask, "Elder Qin, what's going on?"

Professor Qin looked tangled: "We isolated a new type of virus from knife ants. We did an experiment to be cautious. The eggs showed obvious signs of swelling. Several eggs hatched not long ago, and the new larvae are very prolific. Aggressive, I have arranged for people to observe the condition of the experimental subject 24 hours a day."

"The larvae are very aggressive?" Qiu Tianning repeated suspiciously.

"Yes." Professor Qin nodded, "The experiment uses locust eggs. The newly hatched nymphs are compared with ordinary nymphs. The jaws are larger and more developed, the forelimbs are thicker and stronger, and the variation is very obvious."

"Also, this larva not only killed the two companions that hatched together, but also ate three unhatched eggs."

Several people were stunned together, and it took a while to digest Professor Qin's words.

Vegetarian locusts actually diverted to eating meat?

The first brother rubbed his face vigorously to make himself more awake: "Old Qin, do you mean that the mutation of knife ants is related to this newly discovered puffing virus?"

"I think the possibility is very high." Professor Qin said.

"The aggressiveness of knife ants is also related to viruses?"

"It's possible."

The first brother scratched his hair fiercely: "Can viruses also affect the aggressiveness of bugs? This, this, this is too incredible, right?"

He wanted to say that this was too much nonsense, but with Professor Qin's status in the domestic biological world, unless he was old and confused, he would never make such a deadly joke.

The first brother stared at Professor Qin's eyes with wide eyes. Although the old eyes of the vicissitudes of life were a little cloudy, they didn't see the slightest flickering and confusion.

Professor Qin's old face was wrinkled: "I also think it's incredible. It's a fact that happened in front of my eyes. I can't help but believe it."

The first brother quickly calmed down: "What does the virus use to affect the bug?"

"There are no clues yet."

"What's the difference between the second-generation virus and the first-generation virus?"

"The research on the virus has just started, and we know very little about the virus. At present, we only know the genetic base of the second-generation virus, which is 4.7 times that of the first-generation virus."

The first brother was slightly startled: "Is the second-generation virus a brand new virus?"

"It's not clear, my gut tells me that there must be some connection between the two viruses that we don't know about."

"Intuition?" Qiu Tianning was surprised.

"Yes, intuition." Professor Qin said, "On the genetic level, the two viruses are completely unrelated. But apart from the number of genes, the two viruses are almost identical in shape and structure, even the process of invading cells and embedding gene fragments. The way is exactly the same, so I have reason to believe that the relationship between the two viruses is not that simple."

The first brother said with a headache: "Is this virus related to hyper-evolution?"

"I think there is." Professor Qin said, "but there is no evidence to support it yet."

Qiu Tianning pointedly said: "If you didn't say this, I would have listened to it as a joke."

Professor Qin pursed his lips: "I'd rather it be a joke."

The first brother said: "Old Qin, if I understand correctly, the bugs infected with the first-generation virus only change in body shape, but the bugs infected with the second-generation virus are not only more aggressive, but at the same time their body size swells, their limbs will also change. Better for offense!"

"Yes, that's it." Professor Qin said.

"Is this still a bug?" Qiu Tianning questioned.

"The current bugs are no longer the bugs we understand." The first brother said, "Professor, will all the bugs infected with the second-generation virus change their appearance to be more suitable for attack?"

"I don't know, the second-generation virus has just been discovered, and we haven't had time to conduct large-scale infection experiments."

"What about that generation of viruses? Haven't found an effective antibody yet?" the first brother asked again.

The most effective method for my virus is autoimmunity. The work to find antibodies to the expanded virus has been carried out since the establishment of the laboratory, but there has been no progress.

"No." Xu Jiaye finally found a chance to speak, "There is no insect that can effectively immunize against puffed viruses."

Professor Qin said: "If you have antibodies, you don't need to be so troublesome. The structures of the two viruses are basically the same. An antibody that is effective against one virus is definitely effective against the other virus."

"Accelerate as much as possible. The second generation of the puffed virus has already emerged, but we can't even deal with the first generation of the virus. If we drag on like this, maybe the third generation of the virus will come out one day." One brother said disappointedly.

"We must work hard." Professor Qin assured.

At the end of the communication, Professor Qin fell into deep thought.

In order to find the antibody of the puffed virus, the UU Kanshu www.uukanshu.com laboratory has carried out a large number of infection experiments with various insects as the carrier, but the immune system of the experimental insects ignores the puffed virus, so far no puffed virus has been found. Antibody.

The experimental group believes that the reason for this is that the infection of the puffed virus does not harm the insect, or it may be that the puffed virus interferes with the immune system of the insect.

In short, attempts to use insects to find antibodies have reached a dead end.

The lab didn't stop there, but continued to experiment with other kinds of organisms.

All kinds of non-insect crustaceans, reptiles, birds, fish, and even mammals have not escaped the hands of the experimenters. However, even if the virus has an effect on these things, virus antibodies are still not found.

Although antibodies are found, it is not possible to catch all the bugs in the world into the laboratory for vaccination, but it is possible to artificially create a microorganism that infects insects and can produce antibodies in the insects, or directly kill the puffed virus.

Of course, the research in the laboratory is not completely fruitless. Through a large number of experiments, some microorganisms that restrain the puffed virus have indeed been found, and there are still a lot of them.

It's just that none of these microorganisms can infect insects. The laboratory is currently working hard to experiment, and it is planned to strip off the gene fragments of these microorganisms that resist puffing viruses and transplant them into puffing viruses to fight puffing viruses.

It is also a good way to use other kinds of insect viruses as vectors for gene transplantation, but the infection range of puffed viruses is extremely wide. So far, human beings have not found any microorganisms that can be compared with puffed viruses, so puffed viruses have become experimental Best choice for room.

It's a pity that the laboratory can't even isolate gene fragments, let alone transplant them.

What should be done to achieve a breakthrough? (To be continued.)