"What's that?" The first brother almost thought that he was hallucinating, could it be that he has been under too much pressure recently?

"Novel puffing virus. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info" The secretary speaks clearly.

The first brother and Qiu Tianning looked at each other, and it took a few seconds to come back to their senses.

"Let's go!" The first brother got up and walked quickly, "Contact the laboratory immediately!" ”

The secretary hurriedly replied, "Director Xu and Professor Qin are both online. ”

Several people hurried to the conference room, and the first brother couldn't wait to ask, "Old Qin, what's going on?" ”

Professor Qin looked entangled: "We have isolated a new type of virus from the knife ant, for the sake of caution, we have done some experiments, the eggs have shown very obvious signs of expansion, not long ago hatched a few eggs, the newborn larvae are very aggressive, I have arranged manpower to observe the situation of the experimental subjects twenty-four hours a day." ”

"The larvae are very aggressive?" Qiu Tianning repeated suspiciously.

"Yes." Professor Qin nodded, "The experiment uses locust eggs, and the newly hatched nymphs are compared with ordinary nymphs, the jaws are larger and more developed, the forelimbs are thicker and stronger, and the mutation is very obvious. ”

"Also, this larva not only killed two of its companions that hatched together, but also ate three unhatched eggs."

Several people were stunned together, and it took a while to digest Professor Qin's words.

The vegetarian locusts actually switched to eating meat?

The first brother rubbed his face vigorously to make himself more sober: "Old Qin, you mean that the mutation of the knife ant is related to this newly discovered puffing virus?" ”

"I think it's very likely." Professor Qin said.

"The aggressiveness of knife ants is also related to viruses?"

"It's possible."

The first brother scratched his hair fiercely: "The virus can also affect the aggression of insects?" This, that's incredible, isn't it? ”

He wanted to say that this matter was too, but with Professor Qin's status in the domestic biological world, unless he was old and confused, he would never make such a terrible joke.

The first brother stared at Professor Qin's eyes with wide eyes, although the vicissitudes of life were a little muddy, they did not flicker and confusion.

Professor Qin's old face wrinkled: "I also think it's incredible, it's the fact that it's happening in front of my eyes, so I can't believe it." ”

The first brother quickly calmed down: "What does the virus use to affect bugs?" ”

"There are no clues yet."

"What is the difference between a second-generation virus and a first-generation virus?"

"The research on viruses has just begun, and we know very little about viruses, and we only know the genetic base of the second-generation virus, which is 4.7 times that of the first-generation virus."

The first brother was slightly stunned: "The second-generation virus is a brand new virus?" ”

"It's not clear yet, and my gut tells me that there must be some kind of connection between the two viruses that we don't know about."

"Intuition?" Qiu Tianning was surprised.

"Yes, intuition." "On a genetic level, the two viruses are completely unrelated. But apart from the number of genes, the morphology and structure of the two viruses are almost identical, and even the process of invading cells and the way of embedding gene fragments are also identical, so I have reason to believe that the relationship between the two viruses is not so simple. ”

The first brother said with a headache: "Then does this virus have anything to do with super-speed evolution?" ”

"I think there is." "But there is no evidence to support it yet. ”

Qiu Tianning said pointedly: "If you didn't say this, I would have heard it as a joke." ”

Professor Qin pursed his lips: "I'd rather it be a joke." ”

The first brother said: "Old Qin, if I understand correctly, the bugs infected with the first-generation virus only have a change in size, but the bugs infected with the second-generation virus are not only more aggressive, but while the body size is expanded, the limbs will become more suitable for attack!" ”

"Yes, that's it." Professor Qin said.

"Is this still a bug?" Qiu Tianning spread his hands and questioned.

"The current bugs are no longer the bugs we understand." The first brother said, "Professor, are all the bugs infected with the second-generation virus more suitable for attacking?" ”

"I don't know, the second-generation virus has just been discovered, and there is no time to conduct large-scale infection experiments."

"What about the generation of viruses? Haven't found an antibody that works? The first brother asked again.

The most effective method of my virus is autoimmunity, and the search for antibodies to the bulking virus has been carried out since the beginning of the establishment of the laboratory, but there has been little progress in the past.

"Nope." Xu Jiaye finally found an opportunity to speak, "At present, there is no insect that can effectively immunize the puffing virus. ”

Professor Qin said: "If there are antibodies, there is no need to be so troublesome, the structure of the two viruses is basically the same, and the antibodies that are effective against one virus must also be effective against the other." ”

"Speed up as much as possible, the puffing virus has come out of the second generation, but we can't even deal with the first generation of the virus, and if it drags on like this, maybe one day the third generation of the virus will come out." The first brother said disappointedly.

"We'll do our best." Professor Qin assured.

At the end of the communication, Professor Qin fell into deep thought.

In order to find antibodies to the puffing virus, the laboratory has carried out a large number of infection experiments with a variety of different insects as carriers, but the immune system of the experimental insects has ignored the expansion virus, and no antibodies to the expansion virus have been found so far.

The experimental group believes that the reason for this is that the infection of the puffing virus does not harm the insects, or it may be that the expansion virus interferes with the immune system of the insects.

In short, attempts to use insects to find antibodies have reached a dead end.

The lab didn't stop there, and continued to experiment with other kinds of organisms.

Non-insect crustaceans, reptiles, birds, fish, and even mammals have not escaped the experimenters, but even if the virus has worked on these things, no antibodies to the virus have been found.

Although antibodies cannot be found to catch all the insects in the world into the laboratory for vaccination, it is possible to artificially create an infected insect that can produce antibodies in the insect, or directly kill the microorganisms that inflate the virus.

Of course, the research in the laboratory is not completely fruitless, and through a large number of experiments, some microorganisms that restrain the puffing virus have indeed been found, and there are quite a few of them.

However, none of these microorganisms can infect insects, and the laboratory is currently working hard to experiment, planning to strip the gene fragments of these microorganisms against the puffing virus and transplant them into the puffing virus to fight the puffing virus.

Gene transplantation with other species of insect viruses as vectors is also a good method, but the infection range of puffing viruses is extremely wide, and so far, no microorganisms can be compared to puffing viruses, so puffing viruses have become the best choice for laboratories.

It's a pity that the lab can't even isolate gene fragments, let alone transplant them.

What exactly should be done to make a breakthrough? (To be continued.) )