Chapter 635: Future Choice, Gene Store
The plane from Shenzhen to Jiangcheng stopped smoothly at Jiangcheng Airport, Qian Yi and others waited in the reception room, and after receiving the two, Lei Qing sailed directly to the Affiliated Hospital of Jiangcheng University.
In the car, Qian Yi, who was sitting in the passenger cab, looked at Zheng Xuanyu in the back row, "Hasn't Yuyu worn sunscreen these days?"
"I'm not used to putting those things on my face. Zheng Xuanyu flipped through the small gift for Qian Yi in her bag, "Sister Qian, time is too rushed, there is no special gift, this is for you." ”
Qian Yi happily accepted, "I have two bottles of better sunscreen there, girls still have to protect their skin, ultraviolet rays can hurt the skin." ”
Looking at Qian Yiruo's meaningful eyes, Zheng Xuanyu could only secretly stick out her tongue.
After an hour's drive, everyone arrived at the Affiliated Hospital of Jiangcheng University, and after a simple meal, Qian Yi sent the luggage of the two back to their residence, while Xiao Ming and Zheng Xuanyu went directly to the Coastline Medical Company in the Affiliated Hospital of Jiangcheng University, and the gene store project team.
The project team is composed of researchers from Pangu Science and Technology Life Science Laboratory and medical experts from the Affiliated Hospital of Jiangda University, with a total of 10 people.
Li Ting, the person in charge of the project team, handed the report approved by the relevant departments to Zheng Xuanyu, and Zheng Xuanyu read it and handed it to Xiao Ming.
The report is the approval of the construction plan of the Pangu Technology gene store, and the project is down, but there are also some requirements for Pangu Technology, and the gene store is only used in the field of medical treatment.
It doesn't matter, this one is enough.
Li Ting introduced the current operation mode of the gene store.
The basis of the operation of the gene store is the huge gene pool of Pangu Technology and the gene pool provided by users in a timely manner.
The user puts forward the demand for the gene store, and the gene store analyzes the actual situation of the user, combines the gene bank and gene expression model to provide the user with a solution, and the user selects the plan and starts the treatment.
When selecting genes in the gene store (currently selecting without changing the user's main genetic position, that is, the defective gene is replaced with the user's healthy gene.) In the future, you can choose some gene combinations according to customer needs, such as big eyes, straight nose bridge, long legs, etc.), and there are different price points without genomes.
One of the most intuitive aspects of the gene store is that it can model users, and users can see the appearance of some of their genes and the appearance of internal organs through video or virtual communities.
This intuitive display allows users to choose the most suitable gene combination for them.
Since the Gene Shop can only be used for medical treatment at the moment, many of the functions set by the Gene Shop project team are not yet available.
When Xiao Ming saw this, he said: "It can be implemented in Nan'anfei." ”
South Anfei does not have such stringent preconditions.
Li Ting sent the basic information of the two patients who were admitted.
One person is an advanced child.
Liu Xiuzhen, female, 45 years old, her only son died unexpectedly, so this time she took the risk of having another child through IVF technology, and she secretly carried out gender selection
Currently 25 weeks+ pregnant, diagnosed with congenital heart disease.
The best thing to do is to give up the child, because as the pregnancy continues, the child will be miscarried to a certain extent, and even if it is not miscarried, congenital heart disease will be accompanied by other complications, the survival rate is low, and it is painful to survive.
Liu Xiuzhen's family is in the real estate business, and she has a certain economic foundation, and she has wasted all her efforts to do test tubes, so this child is not easy to come from, it is her life, even if she is bankrupt, she must save it.
In terms of treatment options, Zheng Xuanyu is actually inclined to give up the child and use Liu Xiuzhen and her husband's genes to recreate a child, but this method is not allowed to be used at present, so she still has to find a way to minimize invasive surgery and gene replacement.
The second case is also a young woman, a Chinese teacher in the countryside of Northwest Lan City.
Liu Qin, female, 32 years old, patient with systemic lupus erythematosus.
There is currently no treatment for the disease, and in the medical community, analysis is related to genetics, immunodeficiency, endocrine, etc.
In hospitals at home and abroad, including the Affiliated Hospital of Jiangda University, the main treatment plan for systemic lupus erythematosus is to avoid the occurrence of physical infections and other diseases.
Because systemic lupus erythematosus-derived diseases generally have thrombocytopenia, diabetes, rash, arthritis, pericarditis, anemia and even hepatitis, followed by hepatic ascites, liver cirrhosis, nephritis and so on.
Anyway, it's a day to live.
Liu Qin is a volunteer teacher in a township in Lan City, and she has dedicated her youth to this place all her life, she likes to teach and educate students, and she insists on attending classes after her illness.
Being sent to the Affiliated Hospital of Jiangda was the decision of enthusiastic netizens, because netizens believed in Pangu Technology and believed that only Pangu Technology in the country could treat this disease.
Liu Qin's students are still waiting for the teacher to be able to go back and continue teaching for them, but Liu Qin knows very well in her heart, she has checked a lot of information and visited many hospitals in Lan City, and there is no cure for the disease.
In response to Liu Qin's situation, the Gene Mall team and doctors from the Affiliated Hospital of Jiangda have conducted an analysis.
The cause of systemic lupus erythematosus is still inconclusive in the medical community, so the hospital cannot treat it, but the gene team of Pangu Technology measured Liu Qin's genes and found that her genes were hereditary, resulting in a defective immune system, and the project team also found the defective genome of Liu Qin.
Immune system deficiency is the initial factor that induces systemic lupus erythematosus, and if the immune system problem is solved, then systemic lupus erythematosus is not incurable.
Then there are two main steps to the treatment plan given by the gene store.
The first step is to inhibit the expression of the defective gene.
Liu Qin is already an adult, and every cell in her body is full of this defective gene. It is unrealistic to inhibit the expression of defective genes in the whole body, and the experimental group mainly inhibits the expression of defective genes in hematopoietic stem cells.
The second step is to perform gene replacement in key parts of the spine, and the defective gene that inhibits hematopoietic stem cells causes the loss of other immune systems in the body, so replacing the defective gene with a healthy gene is the most important step.
The treatment process is more complicated and costly than the first fetal congenital heart disease patient, and the project team initially estimated that the entire treatment process will cost more than 3 million (cost price).
At present, the treatment method of replacing genes through gene stores does not have much significance in clinical application, after all, such a high treatment cost is not affordable for everyone, but in medicine, this treatment method is a major breakthrough in human life science and medicine, and it is worth trying.
After a brief discussion, Xiao Ming said: "The project team should treat according to the formulated plan. ”