January 1st, 2010, New Year's Day!

The tenth year of the new era, this year, is extremely important for the country.

In this year, China put seven Beidou navigation satellites into orbit and held the World Expo in Shanghai, and the Chang'e-2 satellite was successfully launched, successfully surpassing the footbasin chicken in GDP and becoming the second in the world.

Not only that, with the influence of Neutron Star Technology Group, the early implementation of 4G will also make the country's development faster.

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Biological laboratories.

The newly established department was not very large, only about forty, less than one-sixth of the Ministry of Material Origin, and less than one percent of the Ministry of Information Technology.

Studying biology doesn't have to be a large number of people, and it's completely different from the huge manpower required by the Ministry of Information Technology.

The world's top biology laboratory, located in Cold Spring Harbor on Long Island in New York, USA, has only three to four hundred people, and the research institute covers the fields of molecular biology in addition to cancer, neurobiology, plant genetics, genomics and bioinformatics.

He has won eight Nobel Prizes.

Therefore, research in the field of biology is only in the elite, and it has little to do with the number of people.

"Genetic engineering is a relatively important branch of bioengineering, and it can be regarded as the cornerstone of the future field of biological science." Professor He Lin explained some doubts to the people in the laboratory on the genetic model behind him.

Genetic engineering, together with several major engineering disciplines such as cell engineering, enzyme engineering, protein engineering, and microbial engineering, constitutes bioengineering.

The principle of genetic engineering is very simple, it is to manipulate genes at the molecular level.

Strictly speaking, it is to take out the DNA molecule of the genetic material of the organism by artificial methods, and then cut it with the appropriate tool enzyme, and then connect it with another DNA molecule as a carrier and integrate it into one.

After that, it is sent to a recipient cell that is easier to grow and reproduce, where it replicates and expresses information normally.

People's longevity technology in the future will inevitably be born in the three major engineering disciplines of genetic engineering, cell engineering, and enzyme engineering.

Grafting genes can solve genetic diseases, or change or add better genetic information, so that human beings can grow in a more perfect direction.

Cell engineering is the modification of human cells, according to human needs and design, genetic manipulation at the cellular level, recombinant cell structure and contents, in order to change the structure and function of organisms.

In the distant future, it's no surprise that humans will give birth to a pair of wings and become elves or simply orcs.

This is the norm of life.

"The Department of Code of Life just bought a genetic detector, although the function does not meet our requirements, but it can also detect whether we have genetic diseases, who wants to give it a try?" Professor He Lin asked with a smile.

A functional fragment of the gene DNF molecule is the basic unit of genetic information and the most basic factor that determines all biological species.

Whether it is birth, old age, sickness or death, health, beauty, and longevity, the answer can be found in genes.

It can be said that as long as it is a living thing, there must be genes, and even the appearance, height, weight, skin color and even personality of human beings are inseparable from genes, and all existence and decline are determined by genes.

However, there is very bad news, more than 90% of the world's gene sequencers are monopolized by a company called Illumina in the United States.

Their products cost so little less than $1,000 that they sell at sky-high prices, and it's fair to say that few in the genetic testing industry can break away from Illumina.

"I've tried!" Zhong Zixing said.

His test results were all normal, and there was nothing wrong with them.

Seeing that no one came out, Professor Chen Zuming smiled like a child: "Let me give it a try." ”

"Good!" Professor He Lin took the gene collection tool handed over by Professor Chen Zuming, that is, saliva, and began to test.

It took a while for genetic testing, so everyone did not continue to wait, and returned to their experimental benches in groups to observe the research process and results.

A few hours later, Professor Chen Zuming's test showed that in addition to the normal index of old age, there was also a slight hereditary hair loss.

When everyone saw the results of this test, they couldn't help but look at the still thick hair around his ears and the back of his head, as well as at the top of his head.

"Hair loss?" Zhong Zixing's heart suddenly moved, and he had some ideas.

He himself does not have hair loss, and his family has no genetics in this area, and the quality of his hair is excellent, but this is only a few examples, and the probability of hair loss is ridiculously high in the scientific community around the world.

Because of the amount of mental activity involved, most of the scientists people see are extremely smart, or have a worrisome hairline.

Not only that, but young people nowadays are more or less starting to join the breakout ranks.

Hair that falls out normally is in the catagen and telogen phases.

Since the hair entering the catagen phase and the new anagen phase are constantly in dynamic equilibrium, it is possible to maintain a normal amount of hair.

In addition to normal hair loss, there are also pathological alopecia, the causes of which are nothing more than family genetics, stressful neurological alopecia, endocrine disorders, nutritional deficiencies, certain diseases, physical and chemical alopecia, or seasonal alopecia.

On the one hand, seasonal hair loss is caused by the high temperature in summer, and the expansion of people's pores leads to hair loss, while in winter, the temperature drops, the pores close, and the hair loss disappears.

In addition to this season, the above points are more or less related to the current people.

Groups with great pressure occupy the majority of society, rushing for life, resulting in hair loss, and there are more people with endocrine disorders and hair loss, and the group of people who stay up late is in this ranks.

In the final analysis, there are still too many entertainment activities that make today's young people all night owls, and one by one they are in high spirits at night, and they can't sleep to become a group of immortal cultivators.

At present, there are more than 100 million people with hair loss in China, accounting for one-tenth of the total number of people in the country.

In a few years, the number of people who are starting to move towards "baldness" will explode, and 2.5 out of 10 people who go out will be in the detachment column.

Every year, a lot of money is spent on hair care, and there are countless people who have hair transplants, and there are still people who go to the hair transplant if the effect is not good.

This is a huge market of nearly 100 billion.

"Professor Chen, Professor He, you should know that the company's R&D investment funds have been relatively tight recently, and both departments of material origin and life code are barely supported by information technology." Zhong Zixing had a plan in his heart.

"So, do you think the Department of Life Code will first choose a field that is easy to break through and has a huge market to develop a drug that is easy to market and has a wide audience?"