There's a reason to keep Ashley in the lab. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

For a period of time, with the continuous progress of research in various biological fields, she also began to be interested in this field, and almost always went to the laboratory when she had time. Alice, of course, is happy to have a good sister to help her, and it feels good to be a teacher to teach students.

But what happens when something new is suddenly discovered?

Just as breakfast was over, Alice immediately asked James to drive her to the lab. The bungalow is located in the mountains north of Los Angeles, not far from home, looking at his daughter as if he couldn't wait, James didn't say a word, put on his coat and drove her to the destination.

After arriving at her destination, Alice certainly had nothing to hide from her father, and the two took the elevator together to the seventh basement floor.

On the way down, Alice stood on tiptoe happily, waiting for Ashley to explain the situation to her, after all, there was no way to talk about it on the phone. Seeing the elevator constantly going down in the dark shaft, James couldn't help but laugh and said: "The hard-earned money has been spent in this kind of place." ”

Alice stared at the floor lamp and smiled proudly: "This is also called investment, although I don't know what will be researched, but as long as we research something, it is very likely that technology will be turned into productivity." ”

James knocked on her head: "I know this, silly girl, and I still need you to remind me?"

"Hmph~"

As he spoke, the elevator door had already opened, and a blonde girl in a white coat stood at the door, and as soon as she saw Alice appear, she immediately opened her arms: "Hi ~ honey ~ Welcome to our secret...... Oh, Uncle James?"

James said happily, "Just ignore me", and looked around, although he had been to this mountain hut and the laboratory area several floors underground, but the last time he arrived was a month ago, and he hadn't seen him for dozens of days, and the environment here had changed again.

Except for the whitewashed walls at the beginning, all the decoration of the basement was done by the girls themselves. Of course, it's impossible to put on colored wallpaper, after all, it doesn't really match the identity of the laboratory, but it is still possible to cover the floor with shiny marble tiles.

The feeling of emptiness is gone, and the floor against the wall is occupied by well-made tin lockers, filled with bottles and cans that ordinary people can't understand. The walls of the core of the laboratory have been torn down and replaced with one-centimeter-thick bulletproof glass, and from the outside, you can see that the tables in the room are filled with all kinds of unknown instruments, first of all, the electron microscope with a large barrel and seven identical centrifuges.

"Tsk, that's a ......"

Alice ignored James's emotion, took Ashley's hand and asked, "You just said on the phone that you found unknown bacteria!?"

"I don't know if it's bacteria or viruses, anyway, I've compared the virus library samples from the UCLA Department of Biology and didn't find a match. ”

Ashley leads Alice to the computer and shows her a picture.

Alice's eyes narrowed immediately.

For more than a month, with the help of her father's connections at UCLA, she has made up for her biological knowledge, no, she even copied things like virus database samples into her own computer. It can be said that the level of small research laboratories, whether it is personal or hardware configuration, is rising.

So, what is this virus in front of you?

The specimen in the photograph is pink and has countless spikes on the outside, like a dyed sea urchin. Of course, the shape of the virus is ever-changing, and the macroscopic description is the same, which does not mean that there are only a few viruses of the same shape.

"I've compared the virus database with the highest resolution, my dear. ”

Ashley stood behind and said in a long voice, "There is no match." ”

James was also attracted by the girls' behavior, he looked at the photo on the computer screen, frowned, and said, "Unknown virus, have you determined how harmful it is to the human body?"

Alice smiled slightly, of course she knew what her father was worried about: "Don't worry, James, we won't make such a low-level mistake as letting the virus leak." Do you see all these glassware in the room? They are all made of tempered glass, and the large window is bulletproof glass, and there is no danger at all for ordinary human error. ”

As he spoke, James also saw the location of the sterile room, and at the same time there was a well-preserved sterile gown, so he nodded, but still said: "Even so, if you really want to do such a thing as virus research, you still have to be cautious and cautious." ”

Listening to her father's reminders, Alice was not slow at all, and she personally started to control the virus samples. The Intel CPU began to run at high speed, the data in the hard disk was constantly retrieved, and a blue progress bar began to move slowly towards the 100% position.

After doing this, she asked solemnly, "How did you extract this virus?"

Ashley handed her the experiment notebook: "As you instructed, I routinely centrifuge Caesar's blood cells. However, probably because of the micromanipulation problem when you were drawing the blood, this time the blood sample was accidentally mixed with its lymphatic fluid. ”

"Lymph!?"

Alice's eyes narrowed, "You mean, you found this new virus in your lymphatic fluid!?"

Ashley's innocent and surprised expression indicated that she had done just that.

James listened and interjected, "Lymphatic ...... Girls, I don't know much about biology, lymph seems to be something related to the body's immunity, right?"

"That's right......"

Alice looked at the computer that was still making matches, and under the progress bar was the statistics of the number of matches and the remaining quantity: "Lymph is a colorless, transparent fluid in humans and animals, containing lymphocytes, and the main part is formed by the infiltration of tissue fluid into the lymphatic vessels. As for lymphatic vessels...... It is a tube with a structure similar to a vein, and it is distributed throughout the body. Lymph circulates in the lymphatic vessels and finally flows into the veins, through which part of the tissue fluid flows into the bloodstream and circulates reciprocatingly, which plays a vital role in the immune system of the organism......"

As she spoke, she looked at Ashley with strange eyes: "So, you have found a new type of virus in the liquid responsible for immunity!?"

Ashley also looked tangled and painful, since she had this laboratory, her rapid remedial biological knowledge was almost equal to that of a college major, and she naturally knew what it meant: "And my dear, according to my observations, this virus is attached to Caesar's lymphocytes. Cells that are responsible for improving immunity are instead parasitized by the virus......"

James had a tingling sensation on his scalp: "Oh my God, isn't that going to be AIDS!?",

He couldn't help but feel frightened, immune cells were parasitic by the virus, once this conjecture came true, wouldn't it mean that Caesar, who got along with the whole family day and night, was very AIDS carrier!?

Damn, isn't AIDS a malicious attack on lymphocytes!?

But Alice was still calm: "But at least Caesar didn't have anything to do, did the parasitic behavior cause damage to the lymph?"

"Nope!"

Ashley said categorically: "It's parasitism, it's not aggression, they're a symbiotic state, otherwise I would have told you directly about the discovery of AIDS." ”

Even if it's a symbiotic state, it's definitely not a trivial matter!

Alice felt a cold sweat on her body: "Dad, hurry up, bring Caesar to the laboratory again." Until I find out what this virus is all about, I don't think it's suitable to live at home anymore, you say?"

James was also a little frightened, God knows, the whole family, even the elderly parents who occasionally come to Los Angeles to see their grandchildren, everyone often has close contact with Caesar. Although it is only a suspicion, this suspicion is also too terrifying!

He nodded, "No problem, and Vivi, let's take an AIDS test directly to Caesar right away." Ashley, are you sure this thing is HIV?"

At the same time as the voice fell, there was a ding, and the comparison results came out, and there was no match.

"Uncle James, there's no way UCLA's virus bank doesn't have HIV samples, but ......"

"However, AIDS originated in Africa. ”

Alice interjected: "Anyway, let's bring Caesar over first." Damn, I just wanted to know why it was so smart, why it suddenly got involved with HIV!?"

Suddenly, everyone suddenly realized that there were too many magical things about this little orangutan.

Extremely intelligent, this has been known for a long time.

The strength is very great, this is what everyone just knew when they rescued their grandmother a few days ago.

And now, an undetected virus lives in the lymphatic fluid!?

Even if it didn't attack the lymphocytes, Caesar would have to be isolated!

"Dad, the specific reason is hidden from everyone, especially Sophie and Hannah. ”

While taking the elevator back to the ground, Alice said to the two: "Ashley, don't tell Sissi and them yet, and Dad, prepare me a suitcase specially for storing the virus." ”

The elevator slowly rose to the third basement floor, and James frowned and said, "Suitcase......? Continue your research when you arrive in the UK?"

"Although the biochemistry in the UK is not as good as that in Japan, the theoretical knowledge is not much different, and I was thinking about whether to bring the flower with me when EtonHouse starts school, but now it seems that the research project will be sent directly to my door. ”

As she spoke, the elevator had risen to the first floor, and Ashley screamed.

"By the way, Alice, isn't the shape of that flower's cells also like sea urchins, do you think there is something to do with them!?"

Faced with her friend's suspicion, Alice looked at her with speechless eyes.

"Your associative abilities are so rich ......" (To be continued.) )