Chapter 210: The Secret of Blood
After Zhou Yu learned about the weapon of the particle scalpel, he was about to leave the Institute of Life Sciences.
Wang Xiaoxiao immediately stopped Zhou Yu and said: "Mr. Zhou, our laboratory has accumulated many scientific and technological achievements, and many of them have been officially transformed into products."
When Zhou Yu heard Wang Xiaoxiao stop him, he knew that they must have developed a very valuable technology.
After Wang Xiaoxiao's successful research on AIDS treatment drugs, he set his goal on the research of stem cells and immune cells, and a long time has passed, and he should also achieve many results.
Zhou Yu also put the technology generated by the technology tree to Wang Xiaoxiao several times, and communicated with him many times.
Wang Xiaoxiao is not stupid and very smart, and he should also be able to develop several technologies related to hematopoietic stem cells.
"You have made progress in the two complex projects of blood cells and immune cells." Zhou Yu looked at Wang Xiaoxiao and asked.
"I have discussed with Mr. Zhou a few times, there is already a direction of new technology research and development, and through the efforts of all our scientific researchers, there are now several very important results."
Wang Xiaoxiao's face was full of joy of success and said happily.
Zhou Yu accepted Wang Xiaoxiao's invitation, and he got dressed and walked into the laboratory.
Wang Xiaoxiao took Zhou Yu to the blood laboratory, where there were many transparent glass jars.
The contents of them were either bright red or pale yellow, and there were dozens of different glass jars.
Wang Xiaoxiao introduced: "Mr. Zhou, we can already culture hematopoietic stem cells in vitro.
Expand the scale of hematopoietic stem cells by self-proliferation of hematopoietic stem cells.
The differentiation of hematopoietic stem cells is then induced by chemical reagents, which can differentiate human red blood cells, white blood cells and platelets.
We have also carefully analyzed the composition of human plasma, and now we are able to industrially produce artificial plasma with a 99.99% similarity to human plasma.
Combined, these two products are artificial blood. ”
"So we can produce artificial blood, is this product in clinical trials?" Zhou Yu asked with some excitement.
Wang Xiaoxiao nodded and said, "Mr. Zhou, we have cooperated with the hospital in Yanjing to conduct artificial blood transfusion experiments for critically ill patients.
In addition to the four conventional types of blood, A, B, O, and AB, there are also more than a dozen special test types such as RH negative.
The types must be exactly the same in order for a large number of blood transfusions to be administered between individuals.
Some blood types are very rare, such as the famous panda blood, but there are even rarer blood types than panda blood, and there are only more than 10 in a city with millions of people.
There is simply no such rare blood type in the blood bank.
Once these people experience ischemia, they can only wait slowly for death.
It is by developing artificial blood of this rare blood type, by transporting it into the patient's body, and tracking her body indicators for a long time, that the artificial blood is indeed effective.
We can quickly produce any type of artificial blood. ”
"How's the yield, can I give a blood transfusion to anyone?" Zhou Yu asked again.
"The output of the laboratory is very low, but if it is industrialized, it is only about the size of the factory, even if it is to produce the blood that everyone in the world needs, there is no problem.
For each blood type, we culture the corresponding hematopoietic stem cells and develop the corresponding artificial blood.
As long as the blood type is correct, anyone can have artificial blood transfused without any problems.
Artificial blood is also metabolized for the same time as normal blood and will not remain in the human body for a long time.
Artificial blood is also not mixed with various viruses and is safer than donated blood. ”
When Zhou Yu heard this, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
Artificial blood can open up a huge market, and most cities in China are in a state of blood shortage, not to mention rare blood types, even the most common type O blood will be scarce.
Of course, this is also related to the blood collection system, in the past, Huaxia tried to pay donations, but it caused a black industrial chain of blood slaves, and blood safety could not be guaranteed.
At present, the system relies entirely on voluntary blood donation, but the supporting system has not kept up, which has greatly discouraged the enthusiasm of voluntary donors.
When a voluntary donor or his relatives and friends use blood, he is made difficult by the blood station, but a strange foreigner has a special green channel to supply blood, and anyone who encounters it will discourage his enthusiasm.
In addition to the imperfect supporting system, there are many black sheep who discredit this system.
The most hateful thing is the self-media that makes up rumors for the sake of traffic, and donating blood is not harmful to the body. But how many people listened to the rumors and did not donate blood, leading to the emergence of blood shortages.
The more odious thing is that the black sheep in the system can do such a brainless thing as watering flowers with plasma. There is also an unconditional licking of the kneeling adult.
The successful development of artificial blood has revolutionized the blood supply market, and blood banks will also be obsolete from history.
"There is a 0.01% difference between artificial blood and real blood, and the plasma composition is very complex, do you understand these complex components?"
Zhou Yu felt that Wang Xiaoxiao had something to do with the introduction, so he hurriedly asked.
Wang Xiaoxiao smiled: "Mr. Zhou immediately found the problem, we did find that it only accounts for 0.01% of the human blood.
This ingredient is different to everyone and plays an important role in the body's own regulation, but it is not used at all for blood transfusions.
The main components of this component are various pheromones, which are composed of many complex substances such as polypeptides and phospholipids.
For example, pheromones produced by lymphotic T cells, neurotransmitters that transmit information through nerve signaling, are all a type of pheromone.
It's not just the human body that is invaded by viruses that can produce pheromones. If the human body is not in good physical condition, or suffers from a certain disease, it will produce different pheromones.
Pheromones are essentially the medium through which human cells communicate with each other.
It is through the exchange of pheromones that the human body adjusts the specific state of its organs.
Changes in the body's endocrine, the coordination of organs. are closely related to the information transmitted by pheromones. ”
"By studying pheromones, I've found some wonderful applications for it."
Wang Xiaoxiao introduced the role of pheromones to Zhou Yu.
When the state of the body's cells changes, the corresponding pheromones are produced.
As long as the blood is drawn and the pheromone composition of the plasma is detected, it is possible to quickly diagnose which virus the person has invaded and whether the person is suffering from certain diseases.
It's a rapid way to detect diseases and can accurately measure whether humans are suffering from certain diseases.
Wang Xiaoxiao sighed after the introduction: "We are only deciphering a small part of the content of pheromones in plasma, I think this pheromone contains very profound content, and we are still waiting for us to continue to explore."
Zhou Yu sighed: "There are many mysteries of the human body, with the development of science and technology, we can answer most of the questions, unexplainable questions, but science and technology have not developed to this height."
Are these artificial bloods in front of you? I don't think some of the products look like blood components at all. ”
"Mr. Zhou, all blood components are counted here, but only red blood cells, platelets and plasma are considered conventional artificial blood.
Most of them are the weapons we use to heal our diseases – cellular missiles. Wang Xiaoxiao replied proudly.