Chapter 26: Ivolu Cell
This is what happened in a very short period of time. Even the dynamic vision of a chivalrous person can't fully capture everything.
Among the eight or nine knights present, only Xiang Shan, Tao Enhai himself, and the knight named Bai Man reacted.
No one expected that after Tao Enhai was provoked, his body moved involuntarily. He pounced on Xiangshan.
Judging from the starting style, he should have wanted to buckle Xiang Shan's shoulder.
- Ah, according to this man's habit, it should be followed by reprimands and questions...... With the attitude of an elder?
Xiang Shan even remembered these. Although he didn't know exactly who "Dr. Tao" was, he did extract it from his memory.
"Understanding the person's behavior patterns" is more important than "the memory of spending time with this person" - Xiang Shan may have made such a choice more than 200 years ago. The experience of actually spending time with friends is transcribed into a file and transferred to a hard drive shelf. Today, those memories have long since disappeared with the quantum hard drive.
What remains in Xiangshan's brain is only "the knowledge needed to distinguish between friend and foe."
So, now Xiang Shan knows that this "Doctor Tao" is a friend.
To be honest, Xiang Shan quite understands Dr. Tao's reaction now. He himself doesn't like this technique called "personality overlay" β whether it's real or fake. At least until ethical and legal constraints are met, this technology should not be abused.
And modern times happen to be a time of lawlessness.
Then, Xiang Shan realized another thing.
I'm afraid that this "Doctor Tao" himself is not in good shape.
He made the wrong first step. The cranial nerves give the wrong instructions to the prosthesis. Since the strong emotion increases the weight of the command, the mechanism of self-correction of the prosthetic body is completely overridden by the instruction.
This Dr. Tao will fall at supersonic speed.
Xiang Shan quickly adjusted his posture and lowered his body, wanting to reach out to catch this "old friend".
But he felt that his hands were ...... No, it's as if the whole body is covered with a "membrane". He is moving with a tough "membrane". This "film" completely covered him. With his every move, he had to fight against this invisible barrier.
This "membrane" is not a sound barrier. It's called "Performance".
Xiang Shan's current prosthetic body can only be so fast, and it can only be so fast.
- I must have been much faster in the past than I am now.
Xiang Shan thoughtfully.
Then, in a violent sonic boom, Xiang Shan collided with Tao Enhai. Xiang Shan dragged Tao Enhai's waist and abdomen with one hand with his left hand, and turned around on the ground several times, eliminating the terrifying power, and finally stopped in a half-kneeling position.
- I feel terrible, and I have to change parts for my elbows and shoulders again......
Xiang Shan thought so.
In a cloud of smoke and dust, the stunned group of heroes looked at the old knight who suddenly became troubled.
Tao Enhai shook off Xiang Shan's hand: "I actually reacted...... Also. If it is close to his way of thinking, it means that some structures of the brain are suitable for martial arts techniques. Yes, you should indeed have a high level of reaction. β
He clasped Xiang Shan's left shoulder with one hand: "You have a high talent. If you are willing to practice hard, you don't need to follow these crooked ways, you can become a generation of famous heroes. You deserve a chance to outdo that person! But what are you doing? Yes? β
The doctor was furious: "I beg you, let the old fellow rest in peace!" β
At this moment, the entire cave was silent, except for the howling wind outside the cave.
The underground Pixiu was the first to speak: "Old knight, what do you mean? It's ......"
Ah Tan said: "Pixiu! Stop it! β
His hands were shaking slightly, too.
Only Tao Enhai's assistant Lu Xiu was shocked and said, "Master! Peace of mind! Peace of mind! You can't have intense emotional deprivation! Intense bioelectricity accelerates the course of Ivolu cells! β
Tao Enhai then let go of the mountain. But his prosthetic eye still locked on this man.
And Xiang Shan was triggered with more memories: "Ivolu cells? Course? This thing...... This thing has become a weapon, too? β
Ivolu cells are the world's first benchmark human tumor cells in the neural sheath tissue of Yongmoth Foigt.
Perhaps it was a defect in the original gene therapy, when the genetics genius had a lot of tumors in his body, both benign and malignant. However, because Tao Enhai has found a large number of detection methods for benchmark people from the data of animal experiments, and the world's best medical team monitors his body in real time, almost all lesions have been removed as soon as possible. Later, with the follow-up gene therapy developed by Yorgmov, the cancer no longer appeared.
In the process, Yogmov donated his own tumor cells. This cell can divide indefinitely and will not die due to too many divisions.
It's a great platform for experimentation.
In early 1951, a poor African-American woman born in the United States developed cervical cancer. She was treated at a hospital simply because it was one of the few institutions at the time that was willing to help African-Americans. In the process of treatment, the doctor removed a piece of her lesion tissue and conducted an in vitro culture.
Then, the in vitro culture was a great success. This woman's cancer cells can divide rapidly and without restriction under laboratory conditions.
It's just that the woman's own cancer treatment has not been so successful. She died at the end of '51.
Perhaps it was because the woman was infected with several viruses. As a result, her cancer cells are not only able to replicate, but also replicate themselves a little faster than the average cancer cell.
It's an intangible asset.
These cells are called "Hela" cells. "HeLa" is the abbreviation of the poor woman's name.
The discovery of HeLa cells has made it possible for humans to use real living human cells without the moral responsibility of using near-human creatures such as macaques as experimental subjects. They can use real human cells to be tested for radiation, poisons, or viruses. And things like testing vaccines, making vaccines, etc., can also rely on these human cells.
The doctor who successfully cultivated the cells in vitro generously shared the woman's cells with colleagues around the world. It has appeared in petri dishes in biology laboratories around the world, and has become an important cornerstone of modern global pharmaceutical and chemical industry, creating a value of tens of billions or even hundreds of billions of dollars.
Regrettably, the woman's husband, children and children did not receive any benefit. Instead, the DNA privacy of a part of their family is being studied over and over again by biologists around the world β whether they want it or not.
Xiang Shan probably remembersβthis is a memory from the Demon Cult? Or did he remember it himself? - Yagmov has always regarded this as a "major stain on the development of biology".
Therefore, he personally presided over the new donation process. He hired a large legal team and signed a complex donation agreement that worked all over the world. The agreement ensured that any of his children and grandchildren within five generations could terminate the donation if they felt it had violated their privacy. But the agreement also guarantees that his children and grandchildren, regardless of their ideas, will not be able to receive excessive material compensation from the research institute.
Of course, Xiang Shan also knows another thing - the reason why Yagmov developed this donation agreement is only to leave a positive donation agreement template for the biology community. In order to prevent the real children and grandchildren from interfering with the progress of human science, he would never leave behind his own children. If there is a genuine emotional need, he will go for adoption.
"Huh...... At that time, it was really noble...... "Xiang Shan felt that his head hurt very much. Something "stuff" boiled inside the cranial cavity: "This thing is also a weapon?" This thing was also made into a weapon? β
Evolu Cell, taken from "evolution", means "evolution". His original owner hoped that this benchmark human cell, which could reproduce indefinitely, could become an ideal platform for human cell experiments like HeLa cells.
"Didn't you joke about it years ago?" Tao Enhai, who was calm and calm with meditation, replied disdainfully: "'This thing absorbs electricity too efficiently, I'm afraid it can turn into a huge monster like Godzilla if it is thrown into a nuclear power plant' - this kind of ......"
Tao Enhai realized that something was wrong as he spoke. The tone of this guy in front of him was too much like his old friend from the past - he couldn't help but think of this guy as Xiang Shan!
Anger welled up again. But this time, he didn't ask his disciples to remind him, so Tao Enhai began to meditate on his own to suppress his anger.
It even took Xiang Shan a second or two to accept this shocking fact.
He patted the side of his head.
I have to admit that the world does change.
Soon, Tao Enhai regained his composure. "You don't have to read some memories and think how noble our generation is," he said. We're all human, the same. A third-generation modified version of Ivolu cells, capable of producing fine spores. All it takes is a little moisture in the air, as well as electricity, to reproduce itself. It can paralyze power mechanisms and electronic equipment. Of course, if it enters the human body, it can erode the brain and cause death. β
Xiang looked Tao Enhai up and down the mountain: "Your motor nerves have been eroded very much. Able to move freely, all thanks to the prosthetic's posture correction algorithm? β
Tao Enhai snorted, which was considered an acknowledgement.
"So, you need to do a brain separation surgery and get rid of the brain stem?"
"Well, the brainstem, the motor centers within the cerebellum are not that important for prosthetic people. The organs that depend on them are no longer there, and these nerves are not needed to command. Everybody has no muscles anymore. As long as you don't use a prosthesis as expensive as artificial muscle fibers, it doesn't really make a difference. Even some of the functions of the limbic cortex can be replaced by a computer. Tao Enhai snorted: "For humans, the neocortex is the most important part. Let this part survive, and there is hope. β