The first thing Zhou Xiao did when she returned to the lab was to organize a meeting of the senior management of the laboratory.

It's not that Zhou Xiao likes to have meetings, but that meetings are needed to know the recent experimental progress of the laboratory and deploy the next experimental work.

All the materials have been prepared.

Mo Li first reported on the recent work and achievements of the laboratory.

"We have 33 hospitals and treatment centers that we have cooperated with, including 30 in China and 2 overseas. The two overseas ones are in Russia and Mexico. ”

The matter of the cooperative medical hospital belongs to the origin biotechnology company, so Mo Li just briefly mentioned it without elaborating too much.

The most important part of the laboratory is the experiment.

Mo Li said: "At present, our experiment is divided into two parts, one is the classification of digestive bacteria in the laboratory, and the other is to cooperate with Jiangcheng University of Science and Technology to complete the environmental protection experiment. ”

"The classification experiment of digestive bacteria has achieved good results, and we have isolated different types of digestive bacteria by changing the cultivation method of digestive bacteria, and now we have classified three digestive bacteria that can decompose different grades of organic matter under the same conditions."

Mo Li glanced at Zhou Xiao and said, "The boss used one of the digestive bacteria to dredge the sewer this morning. ”

"The implications of this experiment are very broad, and we have already produced several research papers. Profit in breeding, environmental protection, medical convenience of the application. ”

"In addition, we have a new discovery." Mo Li said: "Among the digestive bacteria species numbered X-2, we have found an associated alien digestive fungus. ”

Mo Li put the results of this experiment on the big screen and said: "The genetic structure of this companion bacteria is basically the same as that of digestive bacteria, but there are slight differences in structure, and we can make it a special-shaped bacterium of digestive bacteria." ”

"Through experiments, we found that the cells of the alien bacteria secrete a special mixture of enzymes. This enzyme is able to recombine what has been broken down by X-2 digestion bacteria...... The restructured stuff is pretty magical. ”

On the large screen, the appearance of the reconstituted digestion product of the alien digestive bacteria is displayed - it is a pale yellow solid.

"This yellowish solid is a mixture of small amino acids, vitamins and minerals. ”

"It's similar to the product of X-2 digestion by the alien bacteria, and the product is glued together with a special substance...... And then that's what happens. ”

And then ...... Look at the big screen. ”

On the big screen, the yellow solid grew bigger and bigger, and the last piece could cover the corner of the culture tank, about a cubic meter in size.

In the video, the laboratory technicians fished the yellow solids out of the culture tank, dried them in the sun, and performed the preliminary sectioning process.

Finally, the processed sections were subjected to a substance test and determined that they were a mixture of amino acids, fatty acids, vitamins, trace minerals, etc.

Back at the meeting, there were already technicians who brought the sliced yellow solid to everyone's table.

Zhou Xiao picked up the thin slice and looked at it, and said, "If it is the substances that were just analyzed, you should be able to eat it." ”

"Yes!" Mo Li said: "This should be regarded as the food created by bacteria for humans, which can be directly absorbed, and the nutritional value is very high, so everyone can taste it." ”

Zhou Xiao was curious, this was really an unexpected surprise.

Zhou Xiao took a slice and tasted it.

Because it is a dried food, it is relatively crispy.

The taste is salty and salty, somewhat fragrant, a bit like beef bopan.

It tastes pretty good!

"We cultured the X-2 colony and the alien bacteria separately, and then tried different cultures and temperatures. Alien bacteria are able to complete the coagulation of small molecules.

Then we adjusted the X-2 colony culture format, and in the end everyone guessed what we were getting. ”

Mo Li really whetted everyone's appetite.

Mo Li handed over the stack of materials in his hand to Zhou Xiao, and then said, "We have obtained a powerful ...... Food makes colonies! We refer to X-2 Digesters and Morph Digesters collectively as food-making colonies. The food that is made, the yellow solid, is by far the most energetic and nutritious food per unit volume.

Moreover, the colony produces this solid, regardless of what type of organism we put in! ”

"We can throw licorice, food waste, everything that can be digested by digestive bacteria into the culture tank. X-2 digesters are able to digest these things and form them into small molecules.

These small molecules are the raw materials of the alien digestive bacteria, which will be under the control of genes, and after eating these small molecules, they will 'pull' out the merged small molecules according to the same standard, forming yellow particles.

Although my use of the word 'pull' is not very elegant, it is indeed like this, the small yellow particles are reassembled after eating the small molecules of the alien bacteria.

Strangely, no matter how many small molecules X-2 digestive bacteria create, the alien bacteria are able to combine particles according to a certain molecular composition.

It's like there are a lot of bricks, sand and cement on the ground on the construction site, but the workers can always pick out some of them and build the house according to the drawings. ”

Zhou Xiao flipped through the pages casually and was very satisfied with the research results.

This is almost the beginning of a new era.

Human needs for proteins, fats, and carbohydrates can come from colonies.

And in terms of unit mass, the nutrients contained in the food produced by the colonies are optimal!

There is a very wide range of application scenarios for this research.

For example, sewage treatment plants, landfills, and food production plants can be part of an ecological chain.

Organic contaminants, after being treated by digestive bacteria in sewage treatment and garbage treatment plants, are combined into foods with very high nutritional value by special-shaped digestive bacteria in food factories.

The raw materials used to produce this food are food waste, leaves, hay, and everything else that can be used to produce food.

According to the production efficiency and cost of the laboratory, the cost of producing this food is much lower than that of raising pigs, cattle, sheep and vegetables, and the cycle is much shorter.

This will undoubtedly become a new way for human beings to replenish the necessary materials and energy. You know, there are still many people around the world who can't eat.

Even if the residents find this food disgusting and don't like to eat it.

The food produced by the colony can also be fed to cattle and sheep, and because the food is easy to digest and has a high protein content, it is also more cost-effective than feeding.

Special-shaped digestive bacteria are products that Zhou Xiao expected, and it is not easy for the laboratory to complete this kind of research and development without its own guidance!