Chapter 384: Gene Activation
New Era 10, January 5.
There are few traces of the Common Era, and the New Era is gradually moving towards greater strength.
Every year on January 5th, the general assembly of the supreme will of the new humanity is held, and this year is no exception.
Ten years have passed since the new era, many new faces have appeared on the stage of history, and many older generations have begun to transition some of their positions to younger people.
In order to ensure the vitality of each organization, each organization replaces 30~40% of the personnel at all levels every 10 years through promotion, dismissal, transfer, demotion, retirement, and recruitment.
In fact, among the four institutions now, the service committee is the most pitiful place, and the salary seems to be at the upper level of society, but it is like a bag.
It is also very easy to be troubled by the arbitration committee, and the real desirable institutions are the scientific committee, the war committee, and even the civil business groups and non-profit organizations are more popular than the service committee.
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Mars, which has proto-microorganisms, has not been developed on a large scale and remains untouched.
On the other hand, the new human beings already have artificial gravity technology at this time, as well as complete artificial artificial environment technology, and their life in outer space can be completely separated from terrestrial planets.
The mortality rate has decreased, while the birth rate has remained at a growth rate of about 5%, and the number of new humans in 10 years has grown to 1.98 billion.
In terms of population distribution, there are 1.12 billion in Blue Star and its affiliated satellite cities, and 560 million in other regions of the solar system.
Of the 6 newly discovered planets of life, 4 of them have star systems colonized by new humans, and 300 million people are distributed there.
The Tianya Department has a population of just over 10,000 and is still in a state of silence and dormancy.
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After the meeting, Huang Mingzhe once again came to the Arbor Satellite City of Arbor through a stand-in robot.
The Sycamore system is one of the four developed star systems with a population of 86.37 million people, one of the four major galaxies colonized by new humans.
The scale of the Arbor Satellite City is hundreds of times larger than three years ago, and Huang Mingzhe, who is standing at the door of the laboratory, is checking the recent scientific research.
Compared to the Nibelons, who were keen on expansion, the expansion of the new humans was very small, and it was also slow and cautious.
According to the deciphered information, the Nibelon civilization has spread its footprints throughout the river system and colonized tens of thousands of star systems in less than 20 years after developing mature artificial wormhole technology.
The new human beings, who have insight into the nature of the universe, are not as nervous as the Nibelon civilization, and they walk on thin ice every step, for fear of waking up the Reaper civilization.
Each satellite city inhabited by humans has been renovated to become a spaceship of the century.
Moreover, in the satellite city, it is also equipped with three wormhole generation cores, which can provide the wormhole for the Century Spacecraft to travel to the distant starry sky in case of emergency.
After reading some of the scientific and technological progress of the Science and Technology Commission, the quantum communication technology that Huang Mingzhe has been thinking about is still not successful.
Researchers have succeeded in generating quantum-entangled pairs, but how to load information on the quantum is a difficult problem.
The quantum communication of the heart of the Nibelon, the quantum information loader, the research team has not been able to imitate it, which made him a little disappointed.
Putting these bad things behind for a while, Huang Mingzhe came to the dimorphism gene laboratory.
"Good afternoon, Chairman." Sim? Baker greeted politely.
Huang Mingzhe smiled: "Sim, how is the progress?"
"Come on, after we completed the human dimorphic genome project last year, we have preliminarily completed the first phase." Sim? Baker's eyes were full of frenzy.
"Oh? Check it out. ”
"Please follow me."
Sim? Baker led Huang Mingzhe to the depths of the laboratory, and many researchers hurried along the way.
For Chim? Baker is a person that Huang Mingzhe still admires very much, and he is also one of the few scientists who can keep up with him.
In a room deep in the laboratory, the arrival of the two did not affect the researcher's work, and they were still busy on their own.
Sim? Baker turned on the virtual display, brought up a stereogram of the gene chain, and then clicked a button, and some sequences marked red, blue, yellow, and white appeared on the stereogram.
Huang Mingzhe, who has been paying attention to this research, naturally understands what these differently colored gene sequences mean.
Red represents "severe malignant mutation", yellow represents "mild malignant mutation", white represents "stable neutral mutation", and blue represents "benign mutation".
According to the statistics of all human gene sequences, 17.6% of the genes were severely malignant, 24.1% were mildly malignant, 34.3 were stable and neutral, and 24% were benign.
However, this is only the overall data of all human beings, and the proportion between the four will vary depending on the individual.
Of course, the so-called "malignant mutation" is actually a relative concept, and many malignant mutation gene sequences are actually judged by human beings themselves based on their own likes and dislikes.
For example, the malignant gene, sequence 2756, once this gene is activated, human lung cells will divide indefinitely, which is equivalent to direct cancer.
But if two other stable genes are combined, this malignant gene can be controlled.
This situation is alluded to the law of the wholeness of the organism.
Just as a knife is a killing weapon in the hands of a killer, but a cooking tool in the hands of a chef, the key is how the user uses it.
There is no good or evil in the knife itself, and there is no good or evil in the genes itself, and good and evil are in the human heart.
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"Chairman, look at these ......" Sim? Baker pointed to the gene chain stereogram, and then copied an identical stereogram from the gene chain stereogram.
It's just that less than 5% of the gene sequences in different colors are left on this stereogram.
"Are these sequences the first stage of your gene lock?"
"Yes, as long as the first stage of the gene lock is opened, the physical fitness of the new human beings themselves will be improved."
A supercomputing simulation of the first stage of unlocking the genetic lock appeared in front of everyone.
There is no obvious change on the surface of the body, but the strength of the cells, vitality, and brain have been strengthened to varying degrees.
Unlike with the help of foreign objects such as biological computers, life agents, and rebirth agents, gene lock activation is a potential that humans themselves have.
This is a fundamental evolution and change.
Huang Mingzhe didn't get carried away, but then asked, "What about the side effects?"
"Since we can't activate gene sequences at the point for the time being, we must use whole-body τneutrino irradiation, which may inadvertently activate some other gene sequences." Sim? Baker replied helplessly.
Huang Mingzhe rationally analyzed: "It is estimated that even if the fixed-point activation technology is mature, there are some risks in the first stage of gene activation. ”
"The chairman has a point." Sim? Baker did not deny the problem.
The organism is an organic whole, and at the same time, the genes of the organism are diverse, and the gene activation sequence in the first stage is not necessarily applicable to all humans.
"You continue to research and thoroughly understand the genetic sequences in human beings, so that we can consider human evolution."
"Understood."
Huang Mingzhe looked at the time: "Sim, I'll go meet someone and discuss it next time." ”
“OK。”
He walked over to the stand-in robot storage room.