Blue Star, Qinghai Lake base.

Previously used as a research and development base for biocomputers, it became the headquarters of the Institute of Life Sciences after the dawn of the new era.

The chief academician is Fang Ge, and Li Jiahang is the dean, as well as Lin Sha and Sim? Baker and other top biologists.

In the dean's office, after Li Jiahang transferred to management, the whole person gained a little weight, mainly because he didn't need to be too brain-burning to engage in scientific research.

It's just that the administrative work of the new era is completely different from the A.D. era, and the current dean is equivalent to the minister of logistics, dedicated to serving scientists.

The person who really decides the scientific research project is the scientific decision-making office of the institute, which is generally composed of 3 permanent decision-makers and 12 rotating decision-makers.

As soon as he received the urgent report from the Martian outpost, Li Jiahang sensed the seriousness of the matter.

It is also a biochemical threat level, and it is a super high mutation virus, and this virus can also disguise itself as a cell chromosome, so as to achieve symbiosis with cells.

He immediately forwarded the Priority 9.2 report to the Office of Policymaking.

……

Zheng and Sim? Beck collaborated on Fang Ge, who was working on human chromosome telomeres, when an urgent report suddenly popped up in front of his eyes.

Priority 9.2 Fang Ge's expression suddenly became serious, the priority can reach this level, it is already a very urgent matter.

"Sim, you guys get busy first, I'll take care of the urgent paperwork."

Sim? Baker gestured with an OK.

Fang Ge, who turned around, hurriedly opened the specific content of the report and browsed it carefully.

After spending more than ten minutes reading it, Fang Ge suddenly felt that this No. 4 virus was very weird, a virus that could be disguised as a chromosome, and it was the first time she had seen it.

While thinking, she walked into the disinfection tunnel, and after a while, she came to the decision-making office, and another rotating decision-maker had already arrived in the office.

The two of them entered the virtual conference room together.

Inside a virtual conference room.

Lin Sha and the others were already among them, and after Fang Ge arrived, the meeting officially began.

Generally, if there is a priority of more than 9, the decision-making office of the institute needs to hold an emergency meeting.

"For the No. 4 high-mutant virus found in the Mars outpost, everyone has their opinions." Fang Ge said bluntly.

Everyone discussed fiercely, for this unknown virus, the scientists present understood the high risk implied, and the threat of alien viruses to the blue star was no less than that of alien invasion.

"I propose that the mutant strain and that meat ball be destroyed immediately."

"It's not proper, there are two if there is one, and destroying the mutant strains and meat balls will not help."

"We can't choke on food, this is not a scientific approach, and we should strengthen the isolation and management of Martian viruses while in-depth research on these viruses."

"Only by understanding the virus can we defeat the virus."

The heated discussion of the decision-making mainly revolved around the balance between security issues and the value of research.

Fang Ge saw that everyone had already expressed their opinions, so she spoke: "Vote!" Will the mutant strains be destroyed?"

[2 votes for agree, 13 votes for disagree.] ］

More than 75% of the votes disagreed with the destruction of the mutant strain, and the mutant strain was temporarily retained.

Fang Ge said solemnly: "Since the vast majority of people agree to keep it, let me give you my opinion, first, name this virus, second, strengthen the safety issue, third, the direction of in-depth research, and fourth, temporarily prohibit testing in the human body." ”

Next, the decision was made on the spot, first naming the virus "fluorescent virus", and then discussing how to study the virus.

"Judging from the reported situation, after the mutant strain and the meat ball complete the symbiosis, there is no obvious damaging effect on the vital signs of the meat ball, but the hidden risk cannot be ruled out." Lin Sha cautiously pointed to the virtual report and said.

"This can allow Huang Fan and Jiang Naoto to continue their research."

"There are only two of them, do you need to send more researchers?"

Fang Ge thought for a moment, "I propose to send 15 more researchers over, but they can sleep in the Phobos satellite city and use stand-in robots to work in the Martian outpost. ”

"Agreed."

"It's a way."

……

When discussing the fluorescent virus on the side of Blue Star.

In the biochemical experiment module of the Martian outpost.

Huang Fan and Jiang Zhiren found that two more meat balls had mutated, but the mutation of the two meat balls failed.

One of the meat balls became very "greedy", and its demand for nutrient solution skyrocketed by more than 3 times under the stimulation of the mutant strain.

The meat ball was turned into a breeding factory by the mutant strain, and the meat ball continued to spray viruses outward.

The other meat ball is directly killed by the virus as nourishment for the virus to multiply.

Summarizing the data analysis of the two meat balls, Huang Fan found that the uncertain mutation of the fluorescent virus-the original strain is too fast, and once the environment changes significantly, the original strain will complete the mutation adaptation within a few hours.

But this mutation is like Brownian motion, and it can mutate into a symbiotic strain, a parasitic strain, or a highly virulent strain.

"Naoto, what do you think we're going to do next?"

Jiang Zhiren, who was calm and calm, thought for a few minutes: "Study the high mutation characteristics of the fluorescent virus. ”

"High variability?"

"The danger of fluorescent viruses is, fundamentally, the uncertainty caused by the high variability of the virus."

Huang Fan thought about it, and it was really true.

"We have to look at the mechanism by which this high variability is generated, how it is controlled, how it is turned off and even knocked out."

"Your thoughts wake up the dreamer." Huang Fan knew that he had fallen into the wrong path before, and he had put the cart before the horse in his research direction.

The root of the fluorescent virus is the high mutation trait, and if this trait is lost, the new humans will always have a way to clean it up.

The two of them immediately extracted the original strain of the fluorescent virus and carried out the whole genome sequence analysis, in the midst of continuous testing and experiments.

Soon, a peculiar gene fragment entered Huang Fan's eyes, and this gene fragment was named "Yingfu-Basal Nuclear Fragment".

With the Atomic Imaging Scanner, they can clearly observe 50 sets of petri dishes.

Ten of the groups had their basal nucleus segments knocked out, another 30 groups had other gene fragments knocked out, and the last 10 groups had no gene fragments knocked out.

Under the stimulation of trace radiation, except for the 10 groups of fluorescent viruses that were knocked out of the basal fragments, the other 40 groups had different degrees of mutation.

Huang Fan took the statistics and said: "It can be preliminarily determined that the basal nuclear fragment is the gene sequence that dominates the high mutation characteristics of the fluorescent virus. ”

"It's a good development." Jiang Naoto also rarely smiled.

After sorting out the data, the two wrote a paper and uploaded it to the internal database, and this "basal core fragment" will inevitably play a key role in the study of fluorescent viruses.

If this "basal nuclear fragment" can be controlled and controllable directional mutation can be achieved, it will have a huge impact on the development of biotechnology at this time.

High variability means high adaptability, which in the case of the virus itself, can improve the viability of the virus.

And this property is a catastrophic problem for other creatures.

No one knows if the virus will suddenly become a very lethal variety, and vaccines are useless because the virus is constantly mutating.

Blue Star, 15 special researchers have taken the forward launch vehicle and entered the new Wenchang Satellite City, preparing to go to the moon and use the mass projector to go to Mars.