Chapter 61: The Triple Helix
Lin Xiao looked at the pattern on the whiteboard, his face full of surprise.
It is a spiral staircase-like figure, with a pillar in the middle running through the top and bottom, and three spiral chains circling around the pillars, and between the chains and the pillars, evenly distributed thin lines act as a link between the spiral chains and the pillars.
"Triple Helix Gene Chain ......"
In fact, as early as 1987, scientists have discovered the triple helix structure, but the triple helix structure generally occurs at the fold of the gene strand, and the so-called 'third gene strand' is not opposite to the other two.
To put it simply, the 'triple helix' discovered in 1987 is just a false proposition.
But even so, to this day, there are still many scientists working on the triple helix gene strand.
But now, the gene chain drawn by Dr. Wei is so symmetrical and neat, the three gene chains are evenly intertwined to form a perfect 'triple helix', and what is even more amazing is that in the middle of this 'triple helix' gene chain, there is a helical pillar that mankind has never seen.
"It's a perfect genetic spiral. Dr. Wei still can't help but marvel.
As he spoke, Dr. Wei marked the letters A, B, and C on the three gene strands, and drew a double helix structure of human DNA.
Then, she pointed to the triple helix and said, "Although we can't yet determine what the intertwined effect of these three gene strands is, what is certain is that your eyes and the dagger on Wu Zong's wrist must be derived from this third gene strand. ”
"But," Dr. Wei adds, "it's not a simple matter of addition and subtraction. ”
As he spoke, Dr. Wei marked A and B on the two chains of the double helix, and pointed to himself: "The genes of ordinary humans have a total of about 3.16 billion base pairs, and each base pair is connected by hydrogen bonds in the middle, such as A link B. ”
Seeing that Lin Xiao nodded in understanding, Dr. Wei then pointed to the triple helix: "Because the gene sequence will not be completely consistent because of the relative pair, take the human gene chain as an example, although AB and BA are both composed of these two letters, but the difference between the slightest difference is thousands of miles, so once the third gene chain is added, the combination will increase exponentially - ABC, ACB, BAC, BCA, CAB, CBA, and theoretically speaking, every two different bases can form a base pair, so the triple helix may even produce AAB, BBA, and so on. ”
Lin Xiao has been following Dr. Wei's train of thought, and when Dr. Wei said this, Lin Xiao suddenly thought of something related to it - strengthening nuclear addiction.
He interrupted Dr. Wei: "So, the triple helix gene chain is actually far less stable than the double helix of ordinary humans, does that mean that this triple helix is very prone to bad combinations?"
"That's right," Dr. Wei nodded, "opportunities and risks always go hand in hand. ”
"Oh," Lin Xiao nodded, knowing in his heart.
"What's wrong?" Dr. Wei asked, unaware of the fatal addiction caused by the Enhanced Nucleus.
Lin Xiao had the heart to tell Dr. Wei this secret and let Dr. Wei find out, but he felt that the time was not good, so he simply shook his head and casually found a reason to prevaricate: "It's okay, I'm just wondering if there is a single helix of DNA." ”
"Yes," Dr. Wei nodded, "but strictly speaking, it's not called DNA, it's called RNA, it's a single helix, but because of its polyoxygen, it's actually not as tough as DNA." ”
"Oh," Lin Xiao nodded clearly: "I suddenly remembered, you go on." ”
Dr. Wei didn't know what Lin Xiao was thinking, so he shrugged his shoulders and continued: "This spiral structure is very special, and at the genetic level, it is much higher than human life, so we call it the 'supreme helix'. ”
As he spoke, Dr. Wei pointed to the words on the small whiteboard and continued: "But as I said before, this life form is composed of an unknown element, so it is impossible for us to sequence it at present, we have also done guinea pig experiments, but the effect is not ideal, even there is a gap between the genes of the yellow race and the white race, not to mention the different species, just when I already felt hopeless, I thought of you." “
As he spoke, Dr. Wei looked at Lin Xiao.
Lin Xiao was a little hairy by Dr. Wei, and couldn't help but shrink his neck.
"Obviously, the genes of fungi can be effectively combined with some humans, or modified, so that you can have far more strength and abilities than ordinary people, so ......"
Speaking of which, Dr. Wei spread his hands.
Lin Xiao remembered the first time he met Dr. Wei in the Third Hospital, and took over the conversation and said, "So you have to directly conduct human experiments." ”
"Yes," Dr. Wei sighed and nodded in acknowledgement, "It's inhumane, but it's the only way to turn the tide." ”
"This is the 'Supreme Spiral' plan?" Lin Xiao asked.
"Well," Dr. Wei nodded, "select a hundred volunteers, undergo intensive nuclear modification, and conduct regular genetic sampling to explore the cause of the pathogenesis and the strengthening principle of this living organism." ”
"And then?" Lin Xiao stood up with his shoulders and continued to ask.
"And then?" Dr. Wei looked dazed: "Then develop a vaccine." ”
Lin Xiao shook his head, paced to the ionization single-sided window of the R&D room, checked the situation outside, and said, "Although I am very happy to know so much about the principle of strengthening the nucleus, I am not here simply to take a biomedical class. ”
"Inexplicably," Dr. Wei frowned at the point of confusion.
"Wei Ningyu," Lin Xiao turned back to look at Dr. Wei suddenly, revealing three points of anger: "Research is a good thing, but is it too much to pay the lives of six million people in the Central Settlement for those additional desires?"
"I don't understand what you're talking about, what desires, what is the cost of six million lives?" Dr. Wei was counted down by Lin Xiao, and he was also a little angry: "What nonsense are you talking about, I don't understand at all." ”
Lin Xiao shook his head, and seemed to be very dissatisfied with Dr. Wei's answer: "Then I'll say it bluntly, why are these hundred people directly under the jurisdiction of Wei Lao, aren't they experimental subjects, and they have become Wei Lao's private 'Jinyi Wei', are you going to engage in dictatorship?"
"Under the jurisdiction of Elder Wei?" Dr. Wei's face was full of disbelief: "I never offered to let the test subjects assist the army in combat. ”
Lin Xiao looked at Dr. Wei's surprised appearance, and couldn't help but be stunned for a moment: "'Set up the highest action team codenamed 'Group 1', and directly obey the command of the supreme leader. Isn't that the first of the 'Supreme Spiral' plan?"
"What a mess," Dr. Wei's eyes widened, and he thought Lin Xiao was making up nonsense: "'Supreme Spiral' is a medical plan, not a military plan. ”
Dr. Wei's face was full of unreasonableness, and he was even laughed angrily: "Lin Xiao, Lin Xiao, where did you come to the Academy of Sciences to accuse me of the gossip?
Although Lin Xiao was scolded, he didn't see any anger on his face, but the whole person was a little dazed, and he was stunned for two seconds before he spoke: "Is the second wartime Supreme Council of the National High Court a small way?"
"What?" Dr. Wei couldn't believe his ears.
"The second wartime Supreme Council of the Supreme House of the People's Republic of China," Lin Xiao repeated: "The 'Supreme Spiral' plan was voted on at the conference, and the first article was the formation of a 'first group' full of political tendencies. ”
Seeing that Dr. Wei still looked uncertain, Lin Xiao then asked, "What about 'Spiral-01'?"
Seeing that Lin Xiao mentioned this 'Spiral-01' again, Dr. Wei couldn't ignore anything this time, and stepped forward and asked, "What 'Spiral-01', I don't know what it is." ”
"You've never developed a gene drug?" Lin Xiao asked.
"What are you kidding," Dr. Wei said, spreading his hands, "I've told you more than once, I can't even measure how I develop genetic drugs by sequencing." ”
Lin Xiao already vaguely felt that something was wrong at this time, because after the whole conversation, he saw that all of Dr. Wei's expressions and movements were naturally emitted, and it seemed that she really didn't know anything about what she said.
Lin Xiao took out his mobile phone from his trouser pocket, opened the video, and handed it to Dr. Wei.
The video shows the animal experiment demonstration video of 'Spiral-01' that Huang Que played at the conference before.
Dr. Wei took the phone and watched the video in its entirety, his face became very bad, and he couldn't help shaking his head slightly: "It's crazy, it's crazy." ”
"What do you mean," Lin Xiao was puzzled.
"Is this the so-called 'Spiral-01' demo video?" Dr. Wei looked up at Lin Xiao, seriously full of worry.
Lin Xiao nodded: "Huang Que took out this at the meeting, saying that it is the latest vaccine you have researched, which can not only prevent the transformation of biological corpses, but also strengthen the functions of the human body." ”
As he spoke, Lin Xiao took back his mobile phone and flipped to the photo of the vaccine that looked like an insulin injection, and the words 'Spiral-01' were engraved on the injection needle.
Dr. Wei closed his eyes and took a deep breath, then slowly sat down in his chair: "Huang Que told a big lie. ”
Lin Xiao chuckled in his heart, and hurriedly squatted next to Dr. Wei and asked eagerly, "What do you mean, is this thing a genetic medicine?" ”
"It's a fart!" Dr. Wei glared and couldn't help but burst into a foul mouth: "It's just a nerve blocker!"
Then, Dr. Wei grabbed his hair irritably, and his otherwise smooth hair was scratched a little messy: "This kind of thing can temporarily weaken the neural control of living organisms, we have also done experiments with this thing, didn't you notice that this video suddenly broke? That is obviously edited, and none of the experimental recording videos are stuck in that kind of place!"
Lin Xiao was reminded by Dr. Wei before he reacted: "It means that there is still in the back, but the yellow finch has not been released?"
Dr. Wei nodded, "Do you know why he didn't dare to let the back out?"
"Why?" Lin Xiao asked.
Dr. Wei let out a long sigh, walked to the side of the filing cabinet, opened the safe next to the filing cabinet, took out a small box from it, and turned around and walked to the computer.
Lin Xiao hurriedly followed.
I saw Dr. Wei open the small box, take out a memory card from the surface, press it into the reading disk, and insert it into the USB flash drive of the computer.
Then, she clicked on the memory card, opened the folder named 'C-01' from a large number of folders with numbers, clicked on the No. 02 video, turned her head and said to Lin Xiao beside her:
"This is a follow-up video of our experiment, if the half-baked Yellow Sparrow really uses this thing on people, the six million people in the Central settlement will really be finished. ”