Chapter 296: The Secret of Life
Viruses are more difficult to deal with than germs, and so far there is no good cure for the cold virus, the most pathogenic organism in human beings, but fortunately, almost everyone can recover on their own in about a week. Viruses are one of the oldest organisms, perhaps at the beginning of life it played an extremely important role, in addition to the viruses that make organisms sick, there are many kinds of viruses that have long parasitic in bacteria, animals and plants and other organisms, and can almost live in peace with the host.
Even dreaded pathogenic microorganisms like hepatitis B virus and HIV often lie dormant for years before attacking the host. If you take a sip in the unfamiliar pristine waters, you may have swallowed hundreds of millions of viruses, but these exotic viruses have their own specialty, they have adapted to the local environment, and they are not capable of infecting unfamiliar human bodies.
Almost all biological cells have their corresponding viruses, and they love and kill each other with their hosts for billions of years, and from this point of view, viruses are the bottom of the ubiquitous biological chain. A virus can be a poison that is quite a threat to the host, so the virus bank can be said to be an extension of the poison bank.
However, viruses are much more dangerous than ordinary poisons. A bacterium begins to divide and multiply in a single cell, and it only takes 4 to do so. In 5 hours, it can become a trillion-level horror collection. And these collections can all become hosts of some kind of powerful professional virus in about the same time, and their life and death are all in the hands of the virus.
Due to the extremely high danger of the virus, Tang Ning chose the Arctic as a treasure trove to build the world's largest virus database, which is isolated from the world and has ultra-low temperatures all year round, which helps to minimize the destructive power of the virus when it spreads. In fact, if the airship chooses the Arctic route, it can save a lot of fuel, because many urban routes between Europe, America and Europe and Asia are closer to the "great circle" when passing through the North Pole, that is, a straight line on the earth's surface.
Downing will plan a large logistics center on the permanent ice near the North Pole, mainly using wind turbines to build energy hubs that will allow airships passing through the Arctic Circle to land for resupply. And 500 kilometers away from this logistics center is where the "vault" of the virus bank is located.
The reason for setting up such a large distance of 500 kilometers is, of course, for safety reasons, even if the virus spreads, it will be difficult to spread across the 500 kilometers to the Arctic logistics hub. And the distance of 500 kilometers is not far away, so that the staff of the virus bank have abundant living resources, and their lives will not be so lonely.
Do you think that almost every day, cargo airships pass through this Arctic logistics center from major cities around the world, so can logistics still be expensive? However, apparently this logistics center is for freight transport, and generally does not accept tourists who are curious about the North Pole, so as not to develop the local area into an Arctic tourism center, which is a very bad thing for cities close to the virus bank.
Packages sent from the logistics center to the location of the virus bank are not enough, on the contrary, the packages sent from the virus bank are not allowed to go out in principle, except for scientific researchers, and the dead objects are also sterilized layer by layer to ensure that they can no longer die. These measures are also used to ensure that the biohazard of the virus bank cannot be transmitted through the logistics center. Like the theory of poison, viruses are also very useful things, and one of its biggest biological and pharmaceutical uses is to replicate gene fragments, and after integrating the gene fragments with the virus, they can be fed to the virus by feeding bacteria and other hosts to replicate a gene in large quantities, which is one of the basic technologies of gene biology. In order to promote the establishment of the virus bank, Downing, who has no prisoner consciousness, is vigorously releasing black technology during this time, and publishes genetic theories such as DNA and RNA on the website of "Nature", which has triggered a tsunami of global life science and technology, affecting almost all professionals and non-professionals who are interested in science. This is also because the biotechnology research at Windsor Medical School has reached a certain stage, and it is time to announce the real biotechnology, and only when something like DNA comes to the surface will the scientific community break the boundary between organic and inorganic. It was at this time that the double-stranded self-replicating structure that Downing "prophesied" at the banquet of the Bavarian king many years ago was revealed, and it turned out to be DNA. Computers use zero-sum ones to record information, while DNA uses CG base pairs and AT base pairs to record information. In this regard, the "Creator" and the human scientist think of the same thing, and only the simplest is the most reliable. Obviously, only the information of life is not enough, how DNA expresses itself is a more important part, this era should be the appearance of proteins, "benefiting" from the threat of viruses, DNA must be hidden deep in the "nucleus" in the center of the cell to better protect itself. Before expressing itself, the DNA communicates itself through the messenger class in the guòrna, and then the protein is synthesized through the transporter in the guòrna. The process of using DNA as a template to make RNA is itself controlled by a protein called RNA polymerase, and there are more than 100 factors in E. coli that have been extensively studied by molecular biologists that affect the work of RNA polymerase, suggesting that the protein controls itself in its own way.
As the basic unit of life, the cell itself can see the central position of protein in biochemistry, and the outer shell of the cell is called the "cell membrane", which is a double-layer phospholipid structure, which is very compact, and only through a special portal can matter and energy enter and exit the cell membrane.
It is the protein that guards the portal, which is called the "membrane protein". They act as couriers between the double membranes, checking whether the "package" they send is needed by their own cells, which is the most basic logistics network of cells. They are equivalent to the old man who guards the door, or the security guard of the building, or the front desk lady of the company.
The energy of life comes from sugar and fat (through guò into sugar), and sugar can only be decomposed in the body temperature environment to release energy, during which the oxygen required also comes from hemoglobin, which can carry oxygen, and the control of sugar content in the blood is also in the hands of protein, the core of which is a protein called insulin, if the secretion of insulin is disordered, it will lead to high blood sugar or low blood sugar, in the final analysis, it is a problem with the expression of protein.
Protein is the key to the flow of energy to living organisms, and is also the most important substance in the structure of living organisms, such as connective tissue. Bones are connective tissues, which are mainly composed of proteins, calcium, and phosphorus. Most structural proteins are fibrin, and as the name suggests, they are the main body of the entire structure of living organisms as fibers are to clothing.
The hardest parts of life, such as hair, nails, feathers, hooves, horns, and some shells, are proteins known as "keratin". The most "vivid" part of life is the locomotor mechanism, and their protagonist is the motor protein, from the movement of sperm to the movement of muscles, the transport of substances, and the division of cells, all of which are completed by various motor proteins, such as: myosin, motor protein and dynein. The position of protein is so important that a little bit can lead to huge physiological changes, so that once the body's immune system finds a very small amount of abnormal protein invasion, it will immediately take action, which is protein allergy. The mechanism of life is so complex, and before the core process of "DNA-RNA-protein" is understood, the whole discipline is like seeing flowers in the fog, which is extremely unreal. Almost every molecular biology paper in the journal Nature, which has been critically criticized recently, has won the highest prize in the natural sciences, completely throwing the increasingly threatening journal Science out of the 500 streets.
No one thought that Tang Dashen, the chief engineer of this qiē, was a "research" made in the prisoner's predicament, no way, many prison escape methods are risky, so he had to release the biochemical demon in advance, this thing is completely impossible for the people around him to figure it out, as long as they allow themselves to engage in the biochemical real room, he can attack and retreat, he wants Jing Yishi to die and don't understand how he died.
Jing Yishi only allowed himself to do it alone, at most let Miss Tsukishima help her, which also forced Tang Ning to develop a fully automated real yàn room to minimize the expenditure of human resources, which was surprisingly very much in line with his personal taste, although it was forced, it didn't matter. Anyway, he is a tyrant and can afford any level of expensive machine.
Among these expensive machines, the most capable is a huge and incomparable "action simulator", the operator can control the manipulator inside the interface outside the sturdy glass cover, and the manipulator in the dust-free environment can remember every minute detail of the human hand, so it can replace the human hand after one adjustment.
Tang Ning often stared at the manipulator to help him do the boring process over and over again, admiring the industriousness and reliability of the machine, and thinking about every possible problem link. After a person's action is "recorded", a programmable sequence is added, and Tang Ning can use the method he is best at to control the robotic arm.
This equipment is used in many of the most established production lines of Windsor companies. Downing's current big factory production is like this. The initial products were all done by hand and produced in small batches. When the production process is basically finalized and then transferred to the stage of "automation popularization", the most easily automated and mechanized part will be handed over to the machine, and the whole process will be from 0 to 90% of the links are relatively easy to automate.
Most of the processes were eliminated before they could be automated to 90%, while a small number of products had very stable processes and were almost 100% automated. At this time, it is most cost-effective to use the robotic arm. For example, the production of Lego bricks, the production of bicycles, the production of windmills, steelmaking, aluminium and other established industries are almost completely automated.
The scientific industry of biochemistry is another exception, and its requirements for the environment make the real people themselves a major factor that interferes with the real industry, because people will always make mistakes, and human beings will breathe, carry bacteria and dust, radiate, and all kinds of unfavorable. Human error is even more catastrophic when handling dangerous goods. Therefore, the best real room should be unmanned, leaving only the scientific personnel watching the whole process.
Tang Ning is now a bit like dancing with shackles, and his careful subordinates will find that the big boss will often tell them to make the real yàn room look like a trailer RV, which is easy to transport. This was Downing's helplessness in the prisoner's plight, and under his propulsion, the RV room was built in large quantities and became a great spectacle in the history of science. These huge RV trailers are placed somewhere in San Francisco and then driven away by the Iyi clan, and the final destination is the mysterious Buried Wood Temple, where 32 RVs are now parked. Fearing that others would see it and become suspicious, the people of the Jing Yi clan hurriedly started to build a wall and hide these huge strange cars.
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