Chapter 654: Welcome to the Land of Life (2)
South Anfei, which has been unknown for a long time, has become the focus of international media during this time.
Xiao Ming's visit to South Anfei was the subject of major media coverage.
This is one of the few public visits by Xiao Ming abroad, and Xiao Ming's strong security team behind him and Super Xiaochu's control of the network and monitoring are the fundamental guarantee for Xiao Ming to be able to visit.
Two days later, Pangu Science and Technology Nan'an Africa Treatment Center completed the registration and selection of volunteers.
In the five-day registration period, more than 2 million people around the world signed up, and the number of applicants in Xia Guo reached more than 1.5 million.
In Weibo's survey data, only 10 million people on the Internet are willing to sign up, but because of the closure of registration channels and other reasons, many netizens took this opportunity.
Twenty out of two million people are picked and the odds are similar to the odds of winning the second prize in the lotto.
Yanjing's doctoral couple, Zhao Xuemei and Su Quan, seem to have used up all their luck in their lives overnight, and they became one of the lucky twenty.
Two people who had just arrived in South Anfei two days ago and were planning to settle here for a long time, waiting for the opportunity for treatment, hugged and cried with joy.
It was at this moment that they realized how important children were.
According to the requirements of the treatment center, the husband and wife need to go to the treatment center immediately to submit relevant information and undergo genetic testing to avoid the risk of genetic defects.
The two also became the first pair in the world to register for treatment on the spot and be willing to undergo treatment under the initial life program.
At the gate of Pangu Science and Technology South Africa Treatment Center, a large number of reporters were waiting here early in the morning when they learned that Li Xuemei and his wife were about to register.
Journalists need to get more accurate information from the mouths of volunteers, including the mindset and thoughts of volunteers.
"Ms. Li, may I ask if you have just come to South Anfei?"
This sentence does not need Li Xuemei to answer, Su Quan said: "The two of us have actually prepared for a long-term war of resistance, this time more than two million people have signed up, and the probability of only selecting twenty people is actually quite small, we are actually ready not to be selected, but we believe in Pangu technology, and we also believe that the initial life technology will be widely used, so we are on standby in Nan'anfei." ”
"The initial life project is to use the somatic cells of two people to pair and fuse to grow embryonic cells, which is the biggest difference from IVF, and another difference is that the future development of the embryo is carried out in an external container, not in the mother's belly. Do you think you will have any regrets?"
Li Xuemei said: "If I can successfully wait for my child, this is already the biggest surprise given by God, and I have no regrets." ”
After answering only two questions, Li Xuemei and Su Quan declined interviews with other media and entered the hospital's initial life department.
Submit for treatment, physical examination, blood draw, somatic cell sampling.
To reduce the time volunteers wait, the somatic cells sampled were bone marrow cells with greater potencypability.
A day later, the results of the genetic analysis of the two came out.
What other problems are just that Su Quan's family has a history of lung cancer, and specifically in the genes, the expression of several fragments of Su Quan's genes is not perfect, although the offspring will not necessarily develop lung cancer, but there will be a great chance.
With the consent of Li Xuemei and Su Quan, the Initial Life Lab made some minor modifications to these fragments to correct these flaws.
The efficiency of the Nan An Fei treatment center is as high as in the country, and after three days, all the preparations have been completed and the embryo cell fusion and transfer procedures will begin.
Because the two were the first pair of volunteers, Gao Siqi personally came forward to explain the situation to the two.
"You should have learned a few things about the Initial Life Project before you came. ”
The two nodded and said, "Understood." ”
Gao Siqi said: "This afternoon, we are about to fuse the meiotic somatic cells of the two bits, and the two said that they want a boy, so we keep Mr. Su's Y chromosome. ”
"After fusion, we activate the totipotency of the fused cells, let them develop into embryonic cells, and after confirming that the embryonic cells are alive, we will transfer them to an artificial incubator in the hospital incubation center, which is also called artificial son. ”
On the projection screen in Gao Siqi's office, Gao Siqi showed the two of them what an artificial incubator looks like.
Because for ordinary customers, it needs to completely simulate the mother's environment, the incubator is much smaller and not transparent than the one that cultivated He Yuchu, and the fetus only needs to develop to about 40 weeks, and He Yuchu needs to accelerate its development to the age of 15.
Gao Siqi pointed to the artificial incubator and said: "Inside is a culture medium of similar water, and in the middle of the container there will be some fine fibers that cannot be seen by the naked eye, and the embryonic tissue will implant and develop in these fiber nets. ”
The artificial incubator basically mimics the human pregnancy process, and after ten months, the couple will be able to get a healthy baby.
This time, Pangu Technology did not launch such a technology as accelerated development.
This technology can only be used internally, and if it is exposed, Pangu Technology will have to dominate the headlines of the world media every day.
"If you agree, we'll start the embryo development and transfer process in the afternoon. Gao Siqi handed a letter of consent to the two of them.
"Our incubation center is actually very cozy, simulating the feeling of being in a mother's belly, and we also welcome users to be able to see their babies from time to time and give them prenatal education. For this kind of thing, the mother herself does it more effectively than we do it intensively. ”
Forty weeks, only forty weeks, the two of them can successfully become parents, and at four or five months, they can give their children prenatal education, and they can experience the feeling of being real parents.
Without the slightest hesitation, Su Quan and Li Xuemei signed their names on the document.
Su Quan still has a job in Xia Kingdom, and he will return to Xia Kingdom to work after this busy time.
Li Xuemei decided to rent a house near the hospital and live here for a long time, waiting for the birth of the child, and Li Xuemei and Su Quan's parents will also come to take care of her.
Because of the arrival of Pangu Technology, there are a lot of Chinese in Cape Town, and many diets will be the same as Xia Guo, Li Xuemei will find a temporary job in a Chinese-funded company here, and wait with peace of mind.
"As parents of your child, you can watch the whole process of embryo transfer and implantation in the live broadcast room. ”
At four o'clock in the afternoon, in the live broadcast room of the Initial Life Project, Li Xuemei and Su Quan looked at the onlookers on the big screen.
The embryo is ushered into the incubator by the staff, and it sinks slowly and finally lands on the web of fibers.
After a few hours, the embryo has its first steps of life, developing tiny tissues that are able to grasp the fibrous web firmly, as if embryonic tissue had implanted on the subwall.
Su Quan used his Qinghe equipment to shoot the scene displayed on the screen, one is a close-up of the embryo implantation under the microscopic camera, and the other is an artificial incubator.
He posted the two photos on Weibo, writing: "Although it is hard to find thousands of waters, blowing all the wild sand has reached gold. ”