Chapter XXXVIII

For the infantry of the umbrella company, Rick chose a very classic black motorcycle helmet, plus black body armor and other black weapons.

It's just that all of this equipment is woven of vibranium fiber, even if a tank shell hits...... Probably not even skin trauma.

After all, vibranium's ability to absorb kinetic energy is too rebellious.

Then their main weapon is a large-caliber electromagnetic kinetic rifle, which can shoot directly through even tanks, and at the same time, the lethality is amazing, and there is no recoil to affect the accuracy.

Rick was now wearing a vibranium fibre jersey, not a straitjacket, of course, which he felt was too shameful.

The main thing is that the boss is under him, and it is completely exposed in tights.

This is a big weakness, even if Rick is already a man of steel, the lump below can only ignore the missile bombardment.

So now he is wearing a suit that Howard has researched based on the aerodynamics of flight, etc., with hard blocks made of Edelman alloy to protect important parts, plus vibranium fiber as the last defense, and now Rick can fight others without any scruples.

Anyway, he is so strong that he can keep his hairstyle unmessed when he smashes his face with a nuclear bomb.

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Inside the Umbrella Company, Dr. Connors, the Lizardman, was approached by Rick, as well as other bigwigs in the fields of biology and medicine.

Mainly, Rick was worried that he had a heart attack or something else.

Saiyans are very weak in their resistance to viruses and diseases, you see that Sun Wukong is so strong that he can die of heart disease, if it weren't for the special medicine that Trunks brought back from the future, Sun Wukong would have to go to the underworld in advance to report.

He's going to work on specific drugs that can target heart disease and so on, and even the most serious cancers.

To a certain extent, he wants to rule the world, in fact, in order to gather all talents and research a special medicine that can resist all diseases.

The reason why human scientific research is progressing so slowly, like squeezing toothpaste, is largely because repeated research wastes resources and talents.

And if we can get unification, we can use our strength in one place...... Then maybe human scientific research will develop in a fountain.

However, we still have to solve the problem of various diseases and viruses first.

Professor Connors has recently been working on serums that cure cancer. Almost all animals in the world are at risk of cancer.

It is just a rumor that sharks do not get cancer, and although the anti-tumor factors in cartilage make sharks have a very small chance of getting cancer, they can still get a deadly cancer called melanoma.

Elephants also have a lower chance of getting cancer than ordinary animals, because the TP53 gene in elephants can detect the integrity of DNA and repair the genes that produce cancer cell mutations in time to remove abnormal cells.

The only animal with zero cancer incidence is the mole, and so far, not a single case of cancer has been detected in the mole.

The mole's genome contains many tumor suppressor genes, such as the ARF gene, and lacks those genes that are involved in the development of cancer. The mole's genome has a high copy number of genes responsible for repairing DNA, ribosomes that make essentially error-free proteins, and a large number of chaperone proteins that help other proteins fold properly. These make the mole's genome and cellular state extremely stable.

Second, there is a hyaluronic acid polymer in the mole cells, a molecule that triggers a particularly powerful mechanism called "early contact inhibition," which stops dividing as soon as the cells "feel too crowded." Even if a cell becomes cancerous, after a few rounds of division, the cell crowding triggers this mechanism, and the cancer cells cannot proliferate wildly.

It's just that Professor Connors is not sure that injecting the mole gene will cure the cancer that is already at an advanced stage. What's more, if he turns into a big mole, Rick will definitely kill him.

After much hesitation, he decided to try to cut the genes in three animals: sharks, elephants and moles that have been linked to inhibition of cancer.

That's what the cross-species gene transplant project is all about, and the lizardfolk are just a by-product of the project.

The research went round and round and went back on track, and Professor Connors devoted almost all of his energy to it, even putting the analysis of other diseases and viruses on hold.

If the research is successful, he will almost cure cancer, a terminal human disease, at its root.

Because of his experience in preparing serum countless times, Professor Connors has made rapid progress and has already made three genetically bound serums and injected them into the body of mice for observation.

In the first experiment, more than 40 out of 50 white rats underwent mutations, and the characteristics of various sharks, elephants and moles appeared, and one of them gave birth to seven or eight hands and feet, and more than a dozen pairs of eyes, which were strange and inexplicable, and made people feel cold.

Even Professor Connors, as a biology guru who didn't know how many samples had been dissected, was shocked by the aberrant test specimens.

After destroying the failed products, he analyzed the test subjects that had not been mutated, deleted the genomes that might have caused the mutation of the body, and improved the formula of the serum.

It's just that the work of this project is extremely heavy, and he has only one person, without the assistance of assistants, and the progress is slow and takes a long time.

Professor Connors thought of the massive amount of data stored in his computer, and his head was not as big as a bucket. If it weren't for the immortal serum, he might have been bald by this time.

Cancer cells are very difficult in the human body, and it can almost be said that wildfires are inexhaustible, and the wind blows and grows. But once exposed to the external environment, it becomes very fragile and difficult to survive.

"Professor Connors, how's it going?"

Rick walked in, he asked for money for money, for people to give, for the self-healing factor and the desperate virus for Connors, and now he was curious to know how the results were.

From a purely medical point of view, it is difficult to develop specific drugs against various diseases and viruses, just as antibodies to the Ebola virus were found in ostrich eggs, so humans will protect those rare animals, because it is likely that one day they will need to find antibodies against a certain disease or virus.

But even so, there are countless animals that are threatened with extinction every day.

Connors, a master in the field of biology, is already the best professor of herpetology and biology on the planet.

"Now I'm working on the first step, I'm going to combine the anti-tumor factors of sharks, elephants and moles, but the results are very unsatisfactory."

Connors said quickly, while also showing off the strange white mice.

Rick's brow furrowed, although his current checkups are normal, but it is still important to plan ahead.

"Professor, I will give my full support in terms of resources and funding."