Chapter 55 Specialty Enzymes
This is already the third different plot character that Zhou Zhen has encountered, the first horror film, the second drama film, this X-Files is a science fiction film.
The limited version of the plot, is it just a messy stew of the plot?
Certainly not.
If it weren't for the screenwriter who introduced some plots from other movies when writing the plot. Otherwise, there is an invisible hand behind the establishment of the world.
Each world, the author is the largest, and the world they conceive must also be influenced by other plots.
So in the plot world, there will be other plots involved.
But why, has nothing like this happened in the world before?
However, Zhou Zhen already had some guesses in his heart, since he couldn't escape, he would try it out.
I took another look at the petite Dinah, who was a few years older than herself, about twenty-six or seventeen years old, fair-skinned, very beautiful and charming.
"I'm curious about what the FBI agents are looking for Professor Ashford."
"Confidentiality." She glanced at Zhou Zhen. "Kid, don't treat me as a YY object."
Zhou Zhen couldn't help but smile. "Did you encounter a virus in your case that is difficult to analyze? It's easy to guess. ”
"Don't be so curious."
Zhou Zhen said: "Professor Ashford's laboratory mainly focuses on the analysis of cell activation, and what is the other test involved? It's four o'clock in the afternoon, and maybe I'll do your experiment...... So, come and please me......"
Dinah glanced at Zhou Zhen. "You want to soak me? Soak a police officer? ”
Zhou Zhen deliberately said: "You are just a bunch of cells in my eyes......"
Coming to the office outside the laboratory, Zhou Zhen knocked on the door, and then pushed it open. "Don't feel too good about yourself."
Professor Ashford was the only one in the office, sitting in front of the computer typing. Professor Ashford, who was in a wheelchair, looked up and asked, "Jamie, who is this?" ”
Dinah didn't wait for Zhou Zhen's introduction, and said directly: "Professor Ashford, my name is Dinah Scully, and I am currently a faculty member at the FBI. I was introduced by Professor Vincent of the University of Maryland, who used to be my professor. ”
"Vincent? Not many people in the Department of Biomedical Sciences enter the FBI. ”
"I have a double degree in biomedical and forensic medicine," Dinah says. ”
For a top professor like him, a double degree isn't a big deal either. "Well, what's the matter with me?"
Dinah didn't care about Charles's coldness and introduced a case she was now across.
The two brothers fall in love with the same girl, and after a flash of lightning and strange rain, the girl dies, and the younger brother is considered an ominous person.
Through an autopsy, Dinah found out from the girl's body that the cause of death was a viral enzyme, and that her brother was a carrier and that it was transmitted through sexual contact.
But not only the younger brother, but the elder brother, who originally wanted to avenge the girl, was also the carrier, and the two disappeared together when Dina was investigating the case.
Dinah couldn't analyze the structure of this active enzyme, so she found it through Vincent of the University of Maryland.
There was one thing she didn't say, but Zhou Zhen guessed, that is, this was her private behavior.
Zhou Zhen is not familiar with the American drama X-Files, but he knows that many of the cases in it are bizarre cases, and there are even aliens.
This American drama has been broadcast since the early nineties, almost ten seasons, more than 200 episodes, and a two-step movie.
According to the time, this headless case should be a case in the fourth season, or a case in the fifth season.
Ashford listened to the introduction, and then took the test materials that Dinah brought with him. "Jamie, Agent Scully has already done acid-base testing and activation testing of this characteristic enzyme, and now we only need to test the structure of RNA for this active enzyme. Can you do it alone? ”
"Of course."
Zhou Zhen took the test materials brought by Dina and raised his eyebrows with her. "You see, these materials are now in my hands."
Dinah didn't have the same knowledge as him, and asked, "How long will it take?" ”
"It depends on whether the test goes smoothly and the sample you bring ......"
Before he finished speaking, the test data in his hand was suddenly grabbed by Charles. "I'm going to see ...... again"
Zhou Zhen let go of his hand, only to see him quickly open the test report and turn to the last page.
Then he stared at it for a few minutes, then flipped to the middle and looked at it carefully.
Looking at his expression, Zhou Zhen knew that he must have made a major discovery.
After a while, he raised his head and said, "No, you can't do this test alone, I'll call the others right now, you turn on the computer first." With platinum-iridium wire needles, you handle the needles first. ”
Zhou Zhen said: "If you start it once, it is a minimum of 5,000 US dollars......
"Do as I say."
Dinah also understood that this experiment could be expensive, and said, "Professor, I just want to analyze the structure of this enzyme, the simplest of all, so that I can understand its origin and function." ”
Professor Charles looked up and asked, "You just said that the brothers are gone?" ”
Dinah nodded.
Professor Charles said as if to himself: "What if it's not gone, but it's just something else?" ”
Dinah was surprised and asked, "You're saying that this enzyme can change appearance?" ”
"No, I didn't say that, I just felt that the active ingredient of this enzyme was too high, you know, enzymes are proteins or RNAs that are produced by living cells and have a high degree of specificity and catalytic efficiency for their substrates.
The catalytic effect of enzymes depends on the integrity of the primary structure and spatial structure of the enzyme molecule, which can then produce dramatic changes to RNA.
RNA, on the other hand, can make huge changes to DNA, and if this catalytic chain is formed, anything can happen. ”
"Can it also be changed in genetics?"
"It's much more than that."
The professor pushed the wheelchair to the telephone with some excitement, and then turned back and asked, "How many samples did you bring?" ”
Dinah took out a small box from her pouch. "It should be enough."
He nodded. "Okay, maybe we can find a miracle."
Zhou Zhen entered the laboratory in silence, thinking about what Charles's discovery was.
Could it be that the discovery of this enzyme made him make a leap forward in the invention of the T virus?
The invention of the scanning tunneling microscope can be said to have directly contributed to the significant development of biology, and on Earth, the invention of this device has directly won the Nobel Prize for several inventors.
Scanning tunneling microscopy is an instrument that uses the quantum tunneling effect to probe the surface structure of matter, which can explore the microscopic world better than atomic force microscopy.
By detecting the magnitude of the tunneling current between the probe and the surface, it is possible to observe the fluctuations on the surface at the single-atom level.
In addition, scanning tunneling microscopy can precisely manipulate individual molecules or atoms at low temperatures using the probe tip, making it not only an important tool for micro-nano scale measurements, but also a promising tool for micro-nano fabrication.
All the research and application of nanotechnology are inseparable from this machine.
In this world, people have combined scanning electron microscopes, fluoroscopic electron microscopes, atomic force microscopes, and field liner microscopes with scanning tunneling microscopes through technical means.
This not only allows you to observe cells and DNA at the atomic level, but also directs them directly.
Of course, this level of testing is something that Zhou Zhen has not yet mastered.
Zhou Zhen was in the laboratory, carefully using the chemical cleaning method to clean the needle, but heard Professor Charles shouting again: "Jamie, you stop first."
Here's my meal card, you go and prepare food for six people, including supper. ”
This is Zhou Zhen's usual work, Zhou Zhen didn't say a word, took the meal card, and prepared to go out.
Dinah said at this time, "I'll go with him." ”
Charles waved his hand without raising his head. "Go ahead."
Out of the office, Dinah was visibly much more relaxed. "Professor Charles has always been so vigorous?"
Zhou Zhen shook his head. "No, apparently the sample you brought with him fascinated him."
Dinah looked at the meal card in his hand and smiled, "Obviously, this is your role. ”
Zhou Zhen is not ashamed. "The whole of Harvard, no, the whole of America. And how many undergraduates are able to work in labs worth tens of millions of dollars? Do you have a boyfriend now? ”
"You should focus on the girls in school."
"But none of them have the qualities that appeal to me as much as you."
"What qualities?"
"Royal Sister."
She glanced at Zhou Zhen and couldn't help laughing. "Pursuing an FBI agent requires more pressure."
"My past is as innocent as a blank sheet of paper......"
She looked at Zhou Zhen's crotch. "I sympathize with you."
Virginity is not something to be sympathized with in the United States, but rather to be despised.
"No, your understanding is only limited by your narrow mind. I don't have a problem at all. ”
"Haha......" she obviously didn't believe it.
The two of them talked nonsense all the way, but there was obviously an ambiguity spreading between the two.
Zhou Zhen has Satan's ability to bewitch, as long as he doesn't have hatred for Zhou Zhen, it is easy to have a good impression of him.
And as long as you have a good impression of him, as soon as two people hook up, it is easy to become a pair.
For Dinah, it doesn't have to be a pair of lovers with Zhou Zhen.
When she graduated from college, she broke up with her boyfriend, who was born on the same day, the same month, and the same year, and has been single for the past few years.
Although he has some thoughts with Mulder, the two are mainly partners.
has no other half, and developing an encounter with this handsome boy is also a spice in life.
After all, he is attractive.
However, after the two returned to the laboratory, they soon lost their ambiguity.
Everyone else had come over and had already started to tune the machine, and the atmosphere was tense.
"Jamie, you're in charge of controlling dialysis, breaking down active enzymes into enzyme proteins and cofactors, and then making a genetic map."
"Okay, no problem."
This time, Zhou Zhen had to enter the disinfection room for full body disinfection, and then put on special protective clothing on board to ensure that there would be no dander and cells on the whole body to enter the laboratory.
Zhou Zhen quickly ate a hamburger and went in, drank another cup of coffee, and entered the disinfection room.
And Charles sat in front of several computers and began to set various parameters.