089 - Visionary
When Chen Chen was in Africa, across the European side of the Mediterranean, Samel was standing in a cold and smooth laboratory, quietly looking at a cultivation warehouse full of science fiction.
The chamber is cylindrical in shape, about 30 centimeters in diameter, and is made of tempered glass throughout, with only the base and top made of metal.
Inside the culture chamber, there is a yellowish liquid.
If you look through the turbid liquid, you can faintly see that a fist-sized creature with a human appearance is quietly suspended in the solution.
It was a chimpanzee in fetal form.
On the belly button of the embryo, an artificial umbilical cord made of biomaterial is connected to one end, while the other end passes through the culture chamber and is connected to the nutrition machine next to it.
In this way, the laboratory mimics the maternal environment to transfer nutrients into the embryo.
As if tired of seeing, Samel turned around slightly, and suddenly, a row of cultivation bins was exposed, and the scene was the same in each cultivation bin......
This is the experimental plan that Chen Chen made before leaving, and each cloned embryo here corresponds to an old chimpanzee in the institute.
You must know that in the history of cloning, the most difficult thing is always the cloning of primates, and the cloning technology of other animals can often refer to each other, for example, the cloning technology of sheep can be used on the body of Kunming mice with a slight modification.
However, none of the mammalian cloning techniques that have been used so far can be applied to primates.
Some theologians assert that this is because humans are primates, and humans are God's favorite darlings, so God will not allow technology to desecrate primates.
The period from the birth of Dolly the cloned sheep to 2013 is known as the darkest sixteen years in the cloning world, because during these 16 years, the world has been trying to clone primates with very limited theoretical support.
Attempt, fail; Try again, fail again......
Many people give up, but every failed attempt excludes a wrong option for future generations, and every ounce of progress paves the way to victory......
It was not until 2013 that God's authority was once again broken.
In 2013, the American-Kazakh scientist Mitalipov used caffeine for the first time in the process of human somatic cell nuclear transplantation after making thousands of attempts, and the result was that this time, he saw the miracle that countless scientists dreamed of-
After caffeine treatment, human cloned embryos can not only be easily fused, but also have an unprecedentedly perfect form!
As for the reason, it is because caffeine is a protein phosphatase inhibitor, which can temporarily inhibit the signaling pathway of the egg cell, so that the egg cell remains stable at all times, so the efficiency of cloning can be greatly improved.
Or to use the Western fable as an analogy:
The purpose of cloning is to expel the original "egg nucleus" king from the egg cell and support a new king called the "somatic nucleus" to ascend to the throne.
However, regime change is a major event after all, and if the people's minds are turbulent at the time of regime change, it can easily lead to a coup d'état, or even lead to the collapse of the country and the collapse of the family.
Thus, the role of caffeine is highlighted, and its role in it is like a "minister of life" to maintain the normal operation of the country during the transfer of power, and in such turbulent times, it can continue to calm the people's hearts, and finally ensure that the "somatic nucleus" smoothly ascends to the throne......
There is an old saying in the Central Continent that the predecessors planted trees and the later people enjoyed the shade, and it was the contribution of the scientist named Mitalipov that made the cloning technology of all mankind not completely stagnate, and it was only at this moment that Samel had everything in front of him.
Looking at the scene in front of him, Samel showed a look of exclamation.
This batch of cloned chimpanzees has differentiated enough hematopoietic stem cells and mesenchymal stem cells, and it is completely possible to repeat Chen Chen's original experiment.
As long as this experiment can be carried out smoothly, it will soon be no longer an irreversible phenomenon, and the average life expectancy of human beings is expected to rise by another 20 to 30 years.
Of course, the technology is not mature at the moment, and there are still many difficulties to overcome, such as the damage to the body caused by chemotherapy, the high failure rate of immune system reconstruction, etc., which need to be overcome one by one in the future.
Until the danger of the technology is reduced to less than one percent, that is the day when the technology is mature and ready for the public.
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On the other side of this time, as soon as the front foot sent Cheng Chao away, Chen Chen received the news of Sam El's successful cloning.
"It took less than two months to clone a chimpanzee, and Samel really has a lot of potential......"
Seeing the content of the information, Chen Chen thought for a moment.
As long as the next chimpanzee experiments can also be successful, then the rest is human clinical trials.
Of course, if you want to conduct clinical trials in Switzerland, you must pass the ATP (Therapeutic Goods Agency) and the FOPH (Federal Office of Public Health) audit, just as you need to pass the FDA review in North America and the CFDA review in Central.
But it is precisely because of this that the egg pain appears-
Sometimes, the time delayed by the state in the review is even greater than the time for drug and technology research and development, and even so long that the company may be completely dragged to death.
Therefore, Chen Chen will not conduct the phase III clinical trial in Switzerland, which has a well-established medical system.
He is preparing to move the third phase of the experiment to Namibia.
Now that I and Namibia are officially in the honeymoon period, it is relatively easy to get approved by the Ministry of Health of this country.
If you really can't, you can also conduct secret clinical trials first......
So, Chen Chen thought about what he was going to do next, and then dialed the phone number of Wen En, the general manager of the Swiss branch.
"Mr. Winn, I have something I ask you to do......"
"I'm going to buy the most advanced bioelectronics on the market today...... Yes, prices and tariffs are not a problem, nor are political contributions......"
"I know it takes a lot of effort and connections, and I heard that your son is getting married recently, so I recently bought a luxury apartment next to the Zurich Opera House, so I gave it to him."
"Okay, it's better to be quick, you know what the company has been working on lately, and if it works, you're definitely the first beneficiary."
After hanging up the phone, Chen Chen couldn't help but shake his head.
If this continues, the $4 billion scam from Facebook has been somewhat unspent, and it seems that it is time to defraud again.
Chen Chen couldn't help but touch his chin.
When Samel's experiment comes to fruition, he can indeed go to the world to search for another wave.
And this time, it's not just four billion......