New Era 5, November 1.

A Kunpeng-class transport ship was towed into the port of the Ice and Fire Satellite City, and the transport ship was 100 senior researchers sent from Blue Star.

These people are all senior researchers in the field of biomedicine, and the leader of the scientific research team is Huang Fan, and Jiang Zhiren, who was previously studying the "fluorescent virus" on Mars, also came here.

Huang Fan, who was in a hurry, soon landed on Ice Mars with the research team.

At the Shipwreck Observatory, Tsukai and Masami Honda, who had been notified, also rushed back.

At this time, the Scrap Ship Observatory was more than four times larger than before, adding areas such as advanced biochemical laboratories, cloning factories, and researchers' living quarters, and the spaceport was also tripled.

Huge Hai stretched out his hand, "Welcome to Ice Mars, Researcher Huang." ”

After the two shook hands, Huang Fan asked impatiently, "Where is that fruit?"

"Researcher Huang, please follow me."

The group entered the biochemical laboratory, and the huge sea took out 5 fruits from the storage box, and these 5 fruits were the source fruits of the source tree.

The outer skin of the source fruit looks like a large purple passion fruit, with a slightly spicy taste similar to garlic, while the internal structure of the fruit resembles that of a peach, but the flesh is dark purple and has a pit the size of a normal walnut.

Activated the genetic armor, covered his hand with a layer of gum-like yellow sails, and took a source fruit with care.

Put the source fruit into the atomic scanner, and suddenly the situation inside the source fruit is displayed layer by layer.

Huang Fan, who has read the papers of Masami Honda and Panda, knows that the special substance that can inhibit the shortening of chromosome telomeres is in the flesh of the source fruit, which is called "life essena".

Huang Fan looked at the scan data and asked, "Researcher Pang, have you ever done live experiments?"

"I've only ever been a living creature on an icy Mars." The huge sea is not hiding anything.

Huang Fan turned his head and ordered, "Naoto, let the cloning factory produce some mice and chimpanzees, and let's test the effect of the life essentia on the Blue Star creatures." ”

"No problem." Jiang Zhiren nodded, and then went to arrange the clones of the mice and chimpanzees.

Huang Fan, who was in the laboratory, continued to learn some details.

Source trees are found only in the tropical poles of the northern hemisphere of Ice Mars, and only three islands have such trees.

These three islands are actually one island, and according to Xiao Jinse's geological model of ice and Mars, the sea level in the Atami Sea two hundred years ago was not as high as it is now.

The continental shelves between Yongri Island, Crab Island, and Tail Island are connected.

A total of 3,775 source trees have been found in the three islands, and by studying the age of the source trees, it can be found that these trees are generally very long-lived, and one of the source trees has reached 35,000 blue star years.

However, Huang Fan quickly frowned, and he asked the huge sea: "Dahai, you said that the living environment of the source tree has been affected by the sudden climate change?"

"Yes." Panghai shares a paper with the other party.

This is a comprehensive research result based on the study of the living environment of the source tree, the climate change of ice and Mars, and the study of X transgenic microorganisms, as well as the analysis of paleontological fossils and humus layers on Yongri Island.

Atmospheric oxygen levels are affecting source trees, and negatively.

"If the atmospheric oxygen content of Ice Mars is increased by another 2 percentage points, the content of life essentia in the fruit of the source tree will decrease by 40~50%."

Huang Fan said solemnly: "It seems that it is necessary to protect the origin of the source tree as soon as possible, as well as find a way to propagate more source trees. ”

"We have been working on this, as long as we eliminate a part of the X genetically modified microorganisms, we can inhibit the continued rise of the oxygen content of the ice Mars atmosphere." Huge sea return.

"I was prepared so early."

After studying for a long time, Jiang Naoto finally pulled 100 cloned mice and 10 cloned chimpanzees over.

Moreover, the careful Jiang Naoto also specially divided the mice and chimpanzees into three age groups, including juvenile, adult, and old age.

As soon as the live experiments arrived, Huang Fan couldn't wait to start the test experiments.

From the 5 source fruits, the internal life essence is extracted.

It was then divided into different doses and injected into mice and chimpanzees.

The atomic scanner is always on, and in the atomic scanning screen, with the injection of life essence, the surface of the mice and chimpanzees does not change much.

But at the chromosomal level, mutations are occurring.

Huang Fan magnified these newborn "blank telomeres" and found that this is a variant of life-like essence, which is a new change after contact with chromosomes.

"The sea, is this the same state of your experiments on ice Martian creatures?"

Huge Hai nodded: "That's it." ”

Stimulated by pressing the accelerated division of the cells, the mice soaked in a special solution seem to be peeling.

In less than 15 minutes, the mice will divide the cells in their bodies 5 times, and these mice will show varying degrees of changes.

This is because of the effect of the injection of the dose of vital essence, only when the vital essence is combined with the chromosomes of all cells, the body of the mouse will not age after cell division.

Underdosed mice have aging in some organs and parts, and some do not.

The experiment continues.

On the other hand, the Ice Mars X genetically modified microbial removal plan applied by Ice and Fire Satellite City to the Blue Star Supreme Will, which was approved by the Supreme Will.

Ren Yingwu was assigned to be in charge of the "Screen Project", and they will eradicate the four X genetically modified microorganisms that have been eliminated in the screen plan from the ice spark in the next three months.

In this way, the continuous rise of atmospheric oxygen content can be curbed, so that the ice Martian ecology can maintain the status quo, and as for the restoration of the previous ecology, there is no need for that.

Because after more than 200 years of ecological transformation of the Nibelons, the ecological environment of Ice Mars has already changed, and if it suddenly returns to the previous ecology, it may cause a large number of animals and plants to be difficult to adapt and become extinct.

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After 8 days.

Huang Fan has understood the use of life essentia, and the principle of life essentia prolonging the life of organisms is to use "false telomeres" to replace "true telomeres" to be consumed, which is a form of plum instead of peach stiffness.

This means that the role of the essence of life is not permanent, but time-sensitive.

Once the "false telomeres" formed by the vital essence are depleted, either re-inject the vital plasm or let yourself and the chromosomal telomeres be consumed.

"After a one-time injection, the pseudotelomeres formed by the vital essence can withstand 12 splits, which is equivalent to an extension of life of about 31.2 years." After Huang Fan finished speaking, he looked at another report in front of him.

"Research on the Resistance of Life-Derived Substances", which lists the situation after multiple injections of life-derived materials.

For the first injection, it can withstand 12 cell divisions; The second time was 11 cell divisions.

By the twelfth injection, the vital essence can only withstand 1 cell division.

If a person is injected with 12 doses of life-serum, he will receive a total of 78 additional non-destructive cell divisions, which is a lifespan of 202.8 years.

The emergence of drug resistance is something Huang Fan expected.

If the life essentia is not resistant to medicine and can be used all the time, then it can be immortalized in disguise, and the rules of the universe will not allow life to live forever.

Of course, Huang Fan also found another substance in his research.