Chapter 1274: Old Acquaintances
"They...... Don't you wear clothes?", Du Lin, who was wearing a white coat, had a little bit of the temperament of a research scholar, he pointed to the observation room around him, and asked a little strangely.
If only male clinical trial volunteers don't wear clothes, everyone won't think it's strange, after all, men always have to take advantage of some aspects after all, similar to the same sex is too lazy to look, the opposite sex who looks at who suffers, etc., so it is not strange that they don't wear clothes, and even some people like not to wear clothes.
Although the feminist movement has been in full swing in recent years, and people have more or less heard of the aims and goals of the feminist movement, the whole society still regards women as a vulnerable group, regardless of whether they allow their husbands to fight with them in bed.
The female doctor, one of the two doctors who followed Doolin, immediately explained, "Most women are more sensitive than men, and they are very expressive of the subtle adverse reactions of some hormones. They may not feel any discomfort themselves, but the allergic reaction has already started, so we ask that we try not to wear any clothing as much as possible, so that we can have an intuitive and comprehensive understanding of the specific situation of each subject. ”
She smiled as she spoke, this female doctor wore a pair of gold-rimmed glasses, had long hair, tied into the shape of a ponytail, and was honestly not ugly, but only an ordinary middle-to-upper class.
But what she said next was a little strangely uncomfortable, "Also, I don't think they need to be any shy, for us medical workers, they are no different from the animals in the school laboratory." ”
"In our eyes, they're just a combination of living organs and tissues, ...... in appearance or something," she said, glancing at the male doctor beside her, who shrugged his shoulders, apparently a little joke that they themselves knew.
As the female doctor said, they may not be used to looking at the body of the opposite sex Chiguo at first, but since they have dissected hundreds of various corpses, when they see the opposite sex or any other person, most of the time they think of "this person's skin looks a little gray, and there may be some problems with his xx organs" or "This person has a lot of body fat, so when Y cuts it deeper".
The volunteers who were observing the lab staff in the transparent room around the clock didn't seem embarrassed, and most of them were doing their own thing, reading books or watching television.
In fact, the medical group also needs to thank Dulin, it is precisely because he has made the magic of cable TV that many volunteers can endure long-term observation and life, and no longer require them to go out for a walk every once in a while.
The more contact they have with the outside world, the more likely they are to make some errors in the verification results, and now they don't need to worry about that.
Durin walked from room to room to destination, where the volunteers on this floor were fools or mentally retarded, walking back and forth in a degraded posture that humans could not naturally form, or sitting on the floor and slapping themselves in the face.
There were only a handful of people who looked like normal people, and if it weren't for the fact that they had to shout or twitch every now and then, Durin would have thought they were more normal.
"These are all patients who we have obvious brain defects, some of them are congenital, some of them are acquired, and we haven't found any effective way to help them in the past, but now we have made a breakthrough in this area. ”
The group made their way to the main research room, changed into a sterile biochemical suit, and entered the interior of the laboratory, where some large, stupid-looking precision instruments were constantly working, handling many liquids and solids.
The female doctor led Durin to the largest table in the laboratory, and held up a culture vessel containing some pure blue crystals the size of half a wheat kernel.
"These are our protagonists, we named it 'Origin', it is the origin of all life, the crystallization of the wisdom that gives living beings!"
The female doctor seemed to be a little fanatical, which she had not shown before, and the male doctor also seemed fanatical, and the eyes of the two of them looking at the blue crystals in the culture vessel were as reverent as if they were looking at God, and they were also filled with some terrible fanaticism.
"Sorry...... I'm rude......", after a moment of excitement, the female doctor suddenly came back to her senses, she restrained her emotions, apologized, and continued, "Mr. Cowen...... He is a very great biologist, he believes that the future of biomedicine lies in cracking the human body itself, and only by uncovering the code of intelligent life can we go further in medicine and biology. ”
"So we've set up a lot of projects, including research into the human brain. ”
"We found that Origin has an irreplaceable role in brain growth, and it can effectively allow brain cells to multiply and grow, which is an ability that all other hormones do not have. ”
"Once formed, human brain cells are very difficult to regenerate and divide, unlike other cells in our body, such as muscle cells, which are damaged after muscle tears and repair by multiplying. ”
"But brain cells are not good, once they are injured and die, they will not regenerate, and there is no possibility of further recovery, which is why we have always believed that the process of life is irreversible. ”
"Until...... We discovered it, and through our communication with the East, we found that the origin can reactivate brain cells for division and regeneration under certain conditions, which means that we will touch the realm of the gods......"
The female doctor of Scientology's fanatical religion stopped abruptly speaking, and the male doctor poked her in the back behind her, which also brought her to her senses.
These things are still top secret, and except for a very few people who know about it, outsiders have no idea what has happened in the past few years.
In fact, the female doctor does not know much, and in deeper places, some more secretive projects have gradually begun to operate, including the Origin Project and the continuation of this plan, the Eternal Life Project.
Biologists believe that the main reason for human aging is that the pituitary gland gradually stops secreting some hormones, resulting in a gradual decrease in the ability of many organs to divide and regenerate, and in the end it will not divide new cells, which also means that human beings are close to death.
Assuming that under certain conditions, the pituitary gland is able to secrete various hormones all the time, ensuring that the cells of every organ in the body are swallowed by new regenerating cells after normal death, then the human body will remain in its peak state, that is, between the ages of fourteen and twenty-four.
Origin is the most important part of this plan, which can help the dead cells of the brain to redivide and regenerate like a miracle, which means that the pituitary gland will once again secrete various hormones and pheromones to promote the maintenance of regeneration and division of cells throughout the body.
It's like cancer, a cancer that has been optimized, has no harm in its tropism, and people are cancer cells, constantly regenerating, and as long as the energy supply can keep up, it will never perish.
This project has been invested in research, and almost all the leaders, presidents, presidents, and dictators of the entire world with a modicum of status have invested a lot of money in this project, out of sight.
There have been many similar projects in the past, and they have also invested a lot of money, and basically 98% of the projects will end in failure, such as the previous "shell project" to maintain immortality by replacing the young body for the brain, which obviously failed.
However, there are many valuable by-products of the failure of these projects, such as the failure of the shell project, but the organ transplant operation has been unprecedentedly successful, and has entered the operational stage, and all major hospitals in the empire have begun to accept organ transplant cases.
It doesn't matter if you fail 99 times out of 100 investments, but if you succeed once, you will get more than the previous 99 failures combined!
In fact, Durin also has the qualifications to know these things, but the top council has not yet opened, so he is so short of that.
"These subjects have already started to use the origin, and we have adopted the method of intracranial injection......", the male doctor took the initiative to divert the topic, and did not give Durin time to ask questions or think, "We will use a special syringe to pierce the skull, but it will not damage any brain tissue, and then spray the melted origin directly on the brain tissue......"
He raised his hand and squeezed it downwards with his index finger as if he were pressing a watering can, which wasn't funny at all, but he seemed to find it funny.
After laughing a few times, he found that Durin was just looking at him, and the female doctor was also looking at him, so he stopped his so-called "joke" with some embarrassment and continued to introduce Durin to the performance of these people in the clinic.
"In the three-day clinical trial, we believe that Origin can indeed help the brain repair itself to a certain extent, which can also be said to be the re-division and regeneration of brain cells......"
He gave several examples of a subject who had previously lost the ability to express himself, but who had now shown a clear desire to express.
A patient with a lack of spatial sense who was unable to walk unaided without an assistive device, or even crawl, is now able to sit up from the bed on his own.
Of course, there are some patients who have not yet shown obvious benign changes, but these changes are enough for the Academy of Sciences to think that they are doubling down on the hormone named "Origin".
Finally, the female doctor told Du Lin that because the origin is a special hormone drug that directly acts on brain tissue, and they have not developed such a drug in the past, so this clinical trial will be held in at least three batches, and the total duration may exceed half a year.
During this half year, it would be better for Durin to spend more time with Maggs to ensure that his emotions remain at a relatively stable level.
Sometimes emotions are also one of the most terrible enemies that interfere with treatment, it can inexplicably give birth to many hormones, and even directly affect the cellular level, until now people have not figured out how cells that should not have intelligence are affected by emotions.
After leaving the center, Durin ate a few things and then went back to the ward to visit Magus and tell the old man what he had seen.
Maggs was rather calm, as if he were ...... It's like falling asleep.
The two-point-one-line life lasted only a week, and after the first day of March, Kubal approached Doolin and told him not to go anywhere in the afternoon, and that he would take Dolin to a meeting.
Today is the day of the top council, and it is a good time for Kubal to push Durin to the forefront, temporarily replacing Maggs, and not leaving this position vacant so that others can have ideas.
Durin also seemed to have come to his senses, and he had been preparing all morning. He came to the top of one of the highest towers in the empire, and sat behind a window looking down on the entire imperial capital.
He didn't speak, just sat quietly, but there was lightning and thunder in his head like a storm.
Starting from that somewhat ridiculous but very important dream for him, bit by bit, he reviewed his life for more than 20 years.
His first sixteen years can be described as muddy, he doesn't know why he was born in this world, he doesn't know what he should do in the future, he has no ideals, no pursuits, only a numb life.
He called the state of having no ideal pursuit and no motivation numbness.
And in the following ten years, he had a bizarre dream, gained a lot of terrible knowledge, and also had dreams and pursuits, and took heavy responsibilities on his shoulders.
He called the current state of struggle a struggle.
My numbness, and my ...... struggle.
After afternoon tea, about a little after three o'clock, Kubal found Doolin and walked with him through the streets to a very old house.
There was an old woman in the house wearing an apron and a hat flower, she was holding a clay pot in her hand, and she was watching TV and stirring something.
There was no slight reaction to a familiar and a stranger who suddenly appeared at her home, and her attention was always on the TV.
Instead, Khobal pulled Durin and nodded to her, and then walked through the room, pulling a candlestick in the study next door, revealing a descending staircase.
After navigating the long staircase, the two of them circled several more times before finally entering a dark room.
In the room there was a large round table, which was black and matte, and there was a chandelier on the table, very close to the table.
Because the table top is not reflective, the light in the room is very dim, and only the middle part of each chair next to the table can be lit, and the rest of the chair is shrouded in darkness.
They came early, and this was the first time that Durin had participated in a small circle of the highest level of the Empire, so show sincerity.
He had only been sitting down for two minutes when he heard a somewhat familiar voice ringing in his ears.
"This damn place...... If it were me, I would have put it somewhere else, the environment here is so horrible that I feel like I'm a bad person, but I'm obviously ......"
Another old voice suddenly rang out, "Damn it, shut your foul mouth!"
"What do you say? Bad mouth? Does my breath smell bad? God is above, I clean my personal oral hygiene on time every day, and ...... Scold...... You lied to me, my breath is fresh and smells of jasmine, I use jasmine toothpaste, you know I like ......"
"Why did God pinch your mouth when He created you? Can you shut your damned mouth for the sake of me dying?"
"Are you going to die? God, are you feeling unwell somewhere? Do you need me to call an ambulance for you? I said, this place is too remote and dark, even if you call an ambulance, you may not be too late, and by the time they find us, you will probably be cold, so ...... Why are you hitting me?"
"Beat you, I'm going to kill you!"
The two voices came from far and near, and Durin's expression became more and more strange, and he glanced sideways at the doorway where the sound came, and then two shadows appeared in the room.
He tried to shout, "Kandy?"