The rise of nanometers

After preliminary determination of the genetic blueprint of the fluorescent fungus, Li Mingyu's team successfully transformed a castrated version of the fluorescent fungus.

This kind of efficiency really surprised Huang Xiuyuan.

Obviously, understanding the genetic blueprint of the fluorescent fungus has played a very good role in guiding the subsequent genetic modification work.

This is also the confidence that Li Mingyu's team can transform into a castrated version of the Yinghuo fungus in a short period of time.

This castrated version of the glowing fungus is now in the laboratory in front of you.

Three white pigs were slowly eating in the cage after being injected with the castrated version of the fluorescent fungus. There were no obvious clinical symptoms.

"Based on the infection speed of fluorescent fungi, the time for obvious clinical symptoms to appear in mammals after infection is usually 3 to 5 days, and it may take 7 to 10 days for individual animals," another researcher explained.

Huang Xiuyuan raised his head: "These white pigs have been injected for half a month?"

"Yes, Academician Huang." Li Mingyu replied without hesitation.

"How was the physical examination?"

Li Mingyu pulled up the half-month physical examination data of three white pigs on the computer. It contained their daily physical data for half a month.

Due to the terrible parasitic characteristics and reproduction speed of this fluorescent fungus, they were castrated, causing the bodies of the three white pigs to gradually adapt to the invasion of the fluorescent fungus and become a relatively mild parasitic state.

Of course, the fluorescent fungus on the white pig is still infectious and mutable, but it has been weakened a lot.

"Eh? You actually produced antibodies?" Huang Xiuyuan was slightly surprised.

Li Mingyu smiled and nodded: "Yes, the three white pigs have all produced antibodies, and they have a certain resistance to the fluorescent fungus."

"I wonder if this antibody can produce resistance to normal fluorescent fungi?" Huang Xiuyuan asked.

He is indeed very concerned about this issue. After all, the glowing fungus itself is a source of disaster. Now Noah will be on the moon and has also obtained samples of the glowing fungus.

The federation has to pay attention to preventive measures, otherwise it may capsize in the gutter.

Don't underestimate the suicidal spirit and nerve of Westerners, but evaluate them with the greatest malice.

Huang Xiuyuan has visited four related biochemical bases in the past few days in order to inspect the development of the federal biochemical technology.

In fact, the Federation now has relatively mature fluorescent fungus inhibitors, as well as killing drugs and preventive methods.

It's just that a vaccine hasn't been developed yet, but it's not that there has been no investment. On the contrary, the federal government has invested a total of approximately 75 billion yuan in research and development funds for the development of vaccines against fluorescent fungi over the years.

But investing does not necessarily mean there will be gains.

The terrifying mutation speed of fluorescent fungi means that after a vaccine is successfully developed, it can only be effective for more than a month, and then the resistance will drop rapidly.

This data is the result of testing through real ecological simulation.

There are two large-scale simulated ecosphere bases in Australia, which specialize in simulation laboratories for various natural environments, semi-natural environments, and fully artificial environments.

Through these simulation laboratories, vaccinated mammals are put into the simulation laboratory together with the original fluorescent fungi.

The results were tragic.

Mammals carrying antibodies are completely defeated in the face of rapidly mutating fluorescent fungi.

Unless the rapid mutation and crazy infectivity of the fluorescent fungus can be cut off, the speed of vaccine development will definitely not keep up with its mutation speed.

In the natural environment, the average gene mutation rate of fluorescent fungi in each generation is about 2 to 17%.

Under a suitable environment, fluorescent fungi can reproduce for one generation in as little as 18 hours. Even if we specifically look for stable genes in fluorescent fungi and use them as target genes for vaccines, we cannot withstand its rapid mutation.

Therefore, vaccines are basically ineffective against such microorganisms that mutate very quickly. Unless the life level of the organism itself is improved, it is possible to resist such high-speed mutating microorganisms.

Other methods are either to take the route of mechanical ascension, directly abandoning the organism and becoming completely mechanized;

Or take the soul quantum route and become a pure quantum life form.

To put it simply, it means not being a human being anymore.

Among the three routes are mechanical ascension, quantum soul, and genetic evolution.

The most likely one at present is mechanical ascension; as for quantum soul technology, there is no need to consider it for the time being, because there is no technical foundation; the final genetic evolution is a good route, but there are also many uncertainties.

The federal scientific community has been arguing endlessly about the two technical directions of mechanical modification and genetic evolution. Even Huang Xiuyuan didn't have a good idea.

You can only go in both directions and try as much as possible.

In the laboratory.

Huang Xiuyuan looked at it for a while and then asked some questions to the researchers.

Then he exited the stand-in robot mode, rubbed his temples, and entered the virtual conference room again.

The theme of this virtual conference is mainly a seminar on biotechnology.

Everyone present was the Federation's top biologists, geneticists, medical scientists and the like.

Huang Xiuyuan was the first to speak: "Everyone, we have inspected many biochemical laboratories these days. Let me first share some of my opinions."

As he spoke, he pulled out his research report and sent it to everyone present.

Huang Xiuyuan continued: "Although the federal biotechnology is advancing rapidly, we still face many challenges and problems."

"Among the many problems that humans must face if they want to completely step out of the comfort zone of Blue Star and enter the age of space exploration, I think the problems of human beings themselves are very important."

Zhang Xingguo, a senior researcher in aerospace biology, nodded:

"I agree with Academician Huang's point of view. If human beings can quickly adapt to the harsh environment of outer space, we can actually carry out interstellar migration more quickly, instead of worrying about this and that like we do now."

"But quickly adapting to outer space is a false proposition. I estimate that it will take humans at least 500 to 10,000 years to evolve a body that can adapt to the weightlessness of outer space." Another geneticist shook his head and said.

Huang Xiuyuan did not directly refute this. The speed of human evolution is indeed too slow. Therefore, in the early stage of space immigration, it is necessary to develop blue star environment simulation technology, such as artificial gravity technology.

But he did not give up the biological route. Huang Xiuyuan continued: "I have an immature idea..."

After speaking, he projected part of the data in the middle of the conference room: "This is what I think."

Everyone read attentively.

After a while, a group of researchers and scholars began to discuss in low voices. Apparently they had some ideas about Huang Xiuyuan's idea.

This is also the reason why Huang Xiuyuan held a virtual meeting. Only by discussing the issues, everyone might be able to come up with some inspiration through communication.

Otherwise, they will all work behind closed doors without conducting exchanges and discussions on how technology will develop.

Huang Xiuyuan's plan is actually an alternative genetic evolution route, which takes into account part of the concept of genetic purity and also takes into account the direction of human evolution.

However, there are still many immature aspects of this plan, which require supplements from everyone present.

After the discussion began, everyone put aside other differences and began to consider how to implement this technology.

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