Chapter 852: Gene Transplantation

If Zhao Zhongyao returned to the base to take a turn, after coming back, it would definitely be dark. This experiment is not very important, and it is the same when it is done.

"Okay, that's it, I'll go back first, and I'll do this experiment tomorrow. Zhao Zhongyao said, and wanted to turn around and leave!

But as soon as he turned around, he felt something entangled in his face. If you look closely, you can see that you are entangled in a spider web.

"Haha, Director Liu, this is really 'stepping on iron shoes and finding nowhere to go, it takes no effort to get it.'" 'Ah!'" Zhao Zhongyao wiped the cobwebs off his face, then looked at Liu Tianming and said.

At this time, Liu Tianming also looked at Zhao Zhongyao and said with a smile: "It seems that this spider web is a little small! Destroyed all the webs of other people's Spider-Man. ”

"I'm sorry to ruin someone's home. Zhao Zhongyao looked at Liu Tianming again and smiled and said.

"It doesn't matter! Just let Spider-Man build another web. Liu Tianming said with a smile again.

In this way, Liu Tianming and Zhao Zhongyao walked out of the back of the office building together, and then came to a laboratory not far from the office building.

It's a large military laboratory with some small machine tools.

After arriving inside, Zhao Zhongyao first handed the spider web in his hand to Liu Tianming and said, "You take it first, and I'll get some very thin steel wire." ”

In this laboratory, there is a kind of machine tool that can further stretch the thin steel wire into a very thin steel wire.

"Okay, I'll take it, you can do it!" Liu Tianming said, took the spider silk in Zhao Zhongyao's hand, and then looked at Zhao Zhongyao and began to pull the steel wire.

At this time, Zhao Zhongyao put this steel wire on a special stretching machine tool. After that, he began to shake a winch vigorously to make the wire continue to be stretched, and finally, the steel wire, which was originally the thickness of a thin iron wire, was stretched into a steel wire as thin as spider silk.

After pulling it, Zhao Zhongyao took this very thin steel wire off the machine tool. After that, he looked at Liu Tianming again and said, "You can feel whether the spider silk is strong or the steel wire of the same thickness is strong." ”

Liu Tianming listened to Zhao Zhongyao's words, so he took a spider silk and pulled it first, and felt it. After that, he took the thin steel wire that Zhao Zhongyao gave him and felt it again.

In this comparison, Liu Tianming felt that this steel wire was not strong at all. When the wire is as thin as spider silk, it feels like a thin noodle, and it will break if you touch it. And spider silk, although it is also very fine. But the flexibility is very good. It can be stretched for a long time without breaking.

"Zhongyao, it seems that what you said is true! When this steel wire is made of spider silk, it is really not as strong as spider silk. Liu Tianming really felt the gap between the two. He now has to believe what Zhao Zhongyao said just now.

"Director Liu, now, do you believe that if I use spider silk to make body armor, will it be stronger than the original nanofibers!" Zhao Zhongyao looked at Liu Tianming again and said.

"Well, I believe what you said, it seems that this spider silk is really strong. ”

Liu Tianming now has to believe what Zhao Zhongyao said. This kind of spider silk is really strong, far exceeding the strength of steel wire of the same thickness.

"Director Liu, then you say, if I use spider silk to make body armor, it will be very powerful! ”

Zhao Zhongyao can now theoretically prove that if he succeeds in researching spider silk body armor, it will definitely be much stronger than the original body armor.

"It seems that it must be much stronger than the original body armor. Liu Tianming listened to Zhao Zhongyao's words and said again.

"So, I'm just trying to work on a super body armor right now. This kind of body armor is made of new spider silk. Zhao Zhongyao looked at Liu Tianming and first talked about his own idea.

After Liu Tianming heard this, he looked at Zhao Zhongyao again and said: "Okay, I support you, you just have to go to research! If there is any shortage of funds, I can also ask the leader for instructions and allocate some research funds for you." ”

When Zhao Zhongyao heard this, he said with a smile: "For the time being, there are still research funds. I don't need much research funding yet. It's just that in the future, a lot of research funding may be required. ”

"Ah, that's why, why do you want a lot of research funding in the future. Liu Tianming listened to Zhao Zhongyao's words, and he felt a little puzzled.

"Director Liu, in fact, this spider silk has a wide range of uses, not only for body armor, but also for other purposes. ”

Zhao Zhongyao knew that this kind of spider silk, in the era before his death, had a special term, which was called biosteel. Biosteel has a wide range of uses, in addition to making high-grade body armor, it can also be used to make protective covers for aircraft, tanks and radars.

"Oh, this spider silk is still very versatile! Liu Tianming listened to Zhao Zhongyao's words and said again.

"Well, of course, there are many uses. Just imagine, since this spider silk can be made into body armor, of course, it can also be made into ordinary clothes, military uniforms, and camouflage combat uniforms.

If this spider silk is used to make camouflage combat uniforms, it will definitely be much stronger than ordinary clothes. My next step is not only to make this spider silk into body armor, but also to make this spider silk into a new type of combat uniform. ”

Of course, Zhao Zhongyao knew the uses of many kinds of spider silk. However, there is no need for him to say too much to Liu Tianming. The main thing is to tell him about the application of spider silk in the clothing industry.

After listening to Zhao Zhongyao's words, Liu Tianming also looked at Zhao Zhongyao in surprise and said: "What you said is so good, it seems that we just have to study this spider silk well." In the future, we all wore clothes made of spider silk, which were so strong that a piece of clothing could be worn for ten or eight years without any problem. ”

"That is, if you make ordinary clothes out of spider silk, it will definitely be much stronger than the original traditional clothes. Zhao Zhongyao said again.

"Okay, Zhongyao, you hurry up and find a way to study this spider silk body armor, I want to see how strong this kind of body armor can be!" Liu Tianming looked at Zhao Zhongyao again and said.

Zhao Zhongyao listened to Liu Tianming's words, then sighed again and said: "I want to quickly research this new type of body armor, but I now have to solve a difficult problem." ”

"What's the problem?" Liu Tianming looked at Zhao Zhongyao with some puzzlement.

"I'm going to solve this problem of spider silk production. Although this spider silk is very strong, it is difficult to collect it in large quantities. ”

Zhao Zhongyao knew this very well, but Liu Tianming didn't understand it, he listened to Zhao Zhongyao's words, and said with a smile: "Isn't it just to use a lot of spider silk! If not, let the workers go to the field to look for spider webs." ”

Liu Tianming was just taking things for granted, he couldn't have known at all, and it was also very difficult to collect spider silk from nature.

"Director Liu, you're just a naïve idea. Just now, the two of us wanted to find a spider web, but we still searched for a long time! Some things in nature are like this, if you don't deliberately look for them, it feels like you can see them everywhere, but when you really want to find these things, it feels like it's not so easy to find. ”

After listening to Zhao Zhongyao's words, Liu Tianming recalled that the matter of him and Zhao Zhongyao looking for spider webs just now felt very reasonable.

"What can we do, how do we find a lot of cobwebs, or we can raise some of our own spiders. If silkworms can be raised, why can't spiders be raised!"

Liu Tianming regarded spiders as silkworms, so he thought, just like raising silkworms, raising spiders!

"Director Liu, you don't understand this, this spider and silkworm are different. The silkworm is a semi-finished animal, and the silkworm is only a stage before the moth develops into an adult. Also called larvae. Whereas, a spider is an adult worm, and it does not have a larva stage.

A spider is a solitary insect. It doesn't like to live with other people. When there are two spiders together, they fight over food. And the losing side may be eaten by the victorious side.

If you keep a lot of spiders together like silkworms, it will probably cause him to kill each other, and in the end, these spiders will be gone.

Therefore, it is unlikely that you want to raise spiders like silkworms. If you want to get a lot of spider silk, you have to find another way. ”

Zhao Zhongyao already understood this matter very clearly, and after listening to Liu Tianming's words, he said it again.

Liu Tianming listened to Zhao Zhongyao's words, and said helplessly: "Then what can we do, how can we get a large amount of spider silk!"

At this time, Zhao Zhongyao also said helplessly: "I am also worried about this matter! If you want to develop a new type of body armor, you must produce a large amount of spider silk, but this spider cannot be raised in large quantities, and how to obtain a large amount of spider silk is really a relatively difficult thing." ”

Hearing Zhao Zhongyao say this, Liu Tianming was also a little helpless, he looked at Zhao Zhongyao and said: "Then what do you say, according to what you say, your idea can only be a fantasy, and there is no possibility of realizing it at all." ”

"Of course not, if it doesn't happen, then I won't come to you. Zhao Zhongyao said. "Oh, what else do you do? After listening to Zhao Zhongyao's words, Liu Tianming felt his eyes light up again.

"Using biological sciences to conduct gene transplantation experiments. Transplant the silk production gene in the spider's body into the silkworm baby's body. The silk that silkworms spit out has the sturdy quality of spider silk. If this is successful, we will be able to produce a lot of spider silk. ”

Zhao Zhongyao thought about it and wanted to solve the problem of producing a large number of spider silk, and he felt that he could only carry out such an experiment.

It's just that he also knows that in this world, science is not developed, biological science is not developed, and whether gene transplantation technology can be carried out is also unknown. But no matter what, for Zhao Zhongyao, he just wanted to test it. Many things in the world may be a little difficult to remember, but if you put your heart into it, it may not be as difficult as you think.

"What, with gene transplant technology. ”

Hearing Zhao Zhongyao say this, Liu Tianming felt a little foggy, and didn't understand what Zhao Zhongyao meant by this. After all, he is also a little unfamiliar with the new term gene transplant technology. He'd only heard about genes, but he had never heard of anything like a gene transplant. I have never heard of the idea of transplanting spider genes into silkworms. He felt that this was a bit of a fantasy.

Zhao Zhongyao listened to Liu Tianming's words, and said with a smile: "This is a high-tech thing. Gene transplantation technology, also known as genetically modified technology. ”

"Genetically modified technology, what kind of technology is it. ”

Liu Tianming listened to Zhao Zhongyao's words, but he still didn't understand. After all, in their world, there is no such technology yet. The life sciences in this world are not well developed, and it is only known that all life is composed of cells. I have also done in-depth research on cells, but I only know that there is a nucleus in a cell, and in the nucleus, there is such a thing as genetics. As for how to carry out gene transplantation, there is no life scientist in that country in the world who has done such an experiment, and there is no theory in this regard.

Zhao Zhongyao saw that Liu Tianming was very interested in this thing, so he said: "Genetically modified technology is to transfer the genes in one life body to another life body, so that the other life form has some characteristics of more than two life forms.

The theoretical basis of transgenic technology comes from molecular biology derived from the theory of evolution. The source of a gene fragment can be the extraction of a gene of interest required in the genome of a particular organism, or it can be a DNA fragment that is artificially synthesized in a specified sequence. DNA fragments are transferred to specific organisms, recombined with their own genomes, and then artificially selected from the recombinants for several generations to obtain individuals with stable expression of specific genetic traits. This technology can enable recombinant organisms to add desirable new traits and breed new varieties.

Genetically modified technology is the use of artificial synthesis to create some organisms that do not exist in nature. Or rather, some new animals with a variety of animal traits in one.

This is a promising medical field for the treatment of some major diseases. Or new technologies to create the specific species that people want. ”