Chapter 418: Genetic Modification Engineering

Luo Yuan's order was well implemented, and the people in the entire laboratory put down their work and busily moved all the materials in the archives to Luo Yuan's office.

Although many researchers are passive and dissatisfied, no one dares to ignore his orders on the cusp of such a situation.

What's more, this person is also the deputy head of the Sword Department, the strongest transcendent creature in the reconstruction area, and as a biological laboratory that is easy to cause evolutionaries to alike the study of superpower genes, no one can help but drum in their hearts.

Researchers are indeed valuable to the reconstruction area, but they also have to be compared to whom, maybe ordinary evolutionaries are only objects of study in their eyes, but this does not include the deputy head of the sword department. Although they don't know much, the importance of this unusual executive order to let a layman take over the country's key genetic laboratory and leave him to mess around.

Luo Yuan's office is not small, about fifty square meters, but after all the materials are moved into the office, the office is still tightly blocked, and it is almost difficult to settle down.

Luo Yuan thanked him lightly, and after everyone left, he closed the office door.

He doesn't care if these people are secretly dissatisfied, the field of scientific research also has its own circle, closed and xenophobic.

A layman without any qualifications or achievements leads the entire laboratory in one fell swoop through an executive order, no matter how humble and polite he behaves, no one will be satisfied, in this case, it is better to directly give high-pressure orders, as long as he does not cause trouble.

After pouring himself a cup of tea, he began to flip through the mountain of information.

The wisdom of up to fifteen points makes him completely glance and unforgettable, making him extremely efficient.

However, most of the information was of no use to Luo Yuan at all, and he swept it away after a few glances, such as the newly discovered gene shearing method in a certain paper, or the induction of a group of genes of a certain virus, which made the infectivity disappear.

Through these materials and papers, Luo Yuan found that there was no breakthrough in the genetic research of the reconstruction area compared with the end of the world, and the research direction was still similar to looking for a needle in a haystack, everything depended on luck, and it was impossible to directly edit genes.

For Luo Yuan, who can already be directly observed and subtly manipulated, this kind of method that still needs to find specific enzymes to cut gene fragments and then transfer them into recipient cells through circular DNA delivery is really time-consuming, laborious, and inefficient, as if he has just entered the Stone Age.

As long as he wants, he can change any cell or virus gene beyond recognition in an instant.

Of course, not all data is useless, and the accumulated knowledge of human genetics, as well as the judgment of some genome functions, have been relatively clear. Human beings have a total of 3 billion bases, of which invalid DNA fragments account for 98%, and the remaining 2%* has about 30,000 genomes, and among these 30,000 genomes, the reconstruction area has now been determined to occupy 50%, which saves Luo Yuan a lot of time to screen one by one.

Otherwise, relying on Luo Yuan to make a car behind closed doors, if he wants to clarify the role of these bases, even for him, it is a huge project.

Of course, these functional genomes are not completely accurate, and the backwardness of observation and operation accuracy, as well as the lack of control experiments, make this kind of judgment seem quite vague and full of uncertainties, and it is only roughly determined.

And through the data, Luo Yuan found that those invalid DNA fragments that occupy 98% are not useless, and some evolutionary gene mutations come from these regions that are ineffective for ordinary people, which need to be verified by him one by one.

However, human cloning is already very perfect, through the preparation of nutrient solutions rich in active energy, an artificial embryo can grow into a baby within ten days, and it can grow into a three-year-old in a month.

When it was close to noon, Luo Yuan glanced at the last stack of materials, threw them aside, and stood up.

He walked out the door and knocked on the door of Professor Fei's office next to him.

"Tell all the personnel to go to the human cloning culture area."

Professor Fei didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly went over to inform him, and a few minutes later, more than 200 people in the entire laboratory came to the cultivation area, Luo Yuan didn't expect that there were so many people in a laboratory, but it wasn't until he arrived at the cultivation area that Luo Yuan found that there was indeed a need for so many people here.

The whole cultivation area is huge, the space is vast, covering an area of nearly tens of thousands of square meters, and the cultivation cabins are densely packed with the entire area, and there are almost more than 30,000 at a glance.

These pods are not empty, most of them are floating fetuses, and some are mere embryos.

Looking at these floating fetuses, sometimes convulsive and squirming, and coming in as ordinary people, I am afraid that I am already scared to the point of standing on end.

Seeing that Luo Yuan was a little stunned, Professor Fei was worried that he had misunderstood, so he hurriedly explained beside him: "Minister Luo, this is not an experimental material, we researchers also have a conscience, even if we want to use it, we don't need so much, right?" ”

Someone next to him coughed a few times.

Professor Fei hurriedly laughed dryly: "Don't get me wrong, that's what I said." Biological research is like this, it is both a laboratory and a factory, but this factory produces humans. ”

Professor Fei humorously said dryly, and continued to explain: "You also know that the population of the reconstruction area is decreasing month by month, natural reproduction and inefficiency, cloning is the best choice to supplement the population, our laboratory has a clone culture index every month, and so far 250,000 people have been cultivated, but don't worry, the genes of these clones are from the dead population, and there will be no ......."

"Alright, no need to explain!" Luo Yuan stopped: "How many empty cultivation warehouses are there now?" ”

"The cultivation area is in charge of Professor Guan, let him tell you!" Professor Fei is the head of the laboratory, and he is in charge of the overall situation, so he will pay attention to these subtle aspects.

"About 5,000 of them, but the next batch will be ......cultivated soon," Professor Kwan said, pushing the thick frames of his glasses.

"Cancel it!" Luo Yuan interrupted: "The next clones are out of the warehouse, and there is no need to continue to cultivate." ”

"However, the indicator ......" Professor Guan seemed to want to say something, but was pulled by Professor Fei, and then quickly reacted, feeling indignant in his heart, what indicators are still being mentioned now, the entire laboratory has been packaged and given away, he can do whatever he wants, and now he can only hope that he is tired of playing for a while, and will kindly let go of this unlucky laboratory.

Seeing that Professor Guan's angry face turned red, Luo Yuan was slightly amused in his heart, but he didn't bother to explain.

"Are there any evolutionaries among the clones in here?" After Professor Guan's mood calmed down a little, Luo Yuan continued to ask.

"There are some of them, but the evolutionaries have strong physical fitness, slow cultivation, and serious consumption of nutrient solutions, only less than a hundred, and most of them are ordinary people." Although Professor Guan was still unhappy in his heart, he didn't dare to offend Luo Yuan, and replied honestly.

"What are the various human genes collected in this lab, and how many egg cells are there?" Luo Yuan used some hints.

"There are about 100,000 copies, of which 5,000 cells were collected from evolutionaries and only 30,000 egg cells, but if they are out of stock, they can be dispensed from hospitals, and many people have donated." In the face of the hint, an ordinary person like Professor Guan had no resistance at all, and said honestly.

"Who is the source of each cell, and is there any special information, such as a photo description?"

"This kind of engineering is too huge, ordinary people don't have it, but there are some cells from evolutionary beings!"

Luo Yuan was slightly disappointed, he was not in a hurry to study the evolutionary, but the genes of those ordinary people were the goal of his current strategy.

However, even if there is no information, it will be a little troublesome and a waste of time at most.

He looked at the more than 30,000 cultivation cabins, and then he was afraid that he would have to work at full strength here.

……

These days, except for returning to Hope City at night, Luo Yuan spends almost every day in the laboratory, and even the sword department doesn't go often. As time passed, the previous cultured clones had been released one after another, and all of them had been replaced with specific embryos that Luo Yuan had screened.

Some of these embryos are used as controls and remain unchanged, while others are micromodeled for a specific genome.

The adjustments are all genes that can be found in the gene pool of ordinary people, and 100,000 genetic samples of ordinary people cover almost all common genes in human beings. Through a large number of experimental controls, he gradually determined the function of each group of genes.

After confirming the function of the genome, he gradually changed the base pairs of the genome, as Luo Yuan's genome changes more and more, during which various malformations inevitably arise, these malformed children have not been completely destroyed by humanity after analyzing and researching and collecting a large amount of data, although it is somewhat cruel, but this is a necessary threshold on the way forward for science.

At the same time, as a large number of results began to emerge during the experiment, the attitude of the researchers in the laboratory towards Luo Yuan was also changing day by day, from the beginning of the reluctant and negative attitude, to now the willing, emotional, hard-working, and the attitude has undergone earth-shaking drastic changes.

There was an inexplicable excitement on everyone's face, as the clones were raised into babies one by one, as the functions of each gene were determined, and even the cognition of genes gradually became accurate to the impact of each base on the change.

The mysteries of human genes have been gradually unveiled as they are.

With the intervention of the administrative force, for a time, a large number of scientific researchers have joined the project, and at the same time, the cultivation area of the laboratory is also expanding suddenly, and all the areas near the laboratory have been vacated and placed on the cultivation cabins, and the number of the entire cultivation cabins has reached 1.5 million in one fell swoop.

However, Luo Yuan didn't care at all, the more resources he mobilized, the faster his progress became.

The speed of his research began to accelerate dramatically.

In just two months, the genetic research and analysis of ordinary people and evolutionaries has been completed.

Luo Yuan began to clone himself again, by this time, he already had a very thorough understanding of genes, the function of each genome, and even the impact of base pair changes, in order to avoid the appearance of countless humans who look like Luo Yuan in the future, these cells used for cloning, he also made some genetic fine-tuning, such as skin color, face shape, height, and even gender.

Luo Yuan stood in the culture area, looking at the millions of culture cabins in front of him, and the small embryos were slowly dividing and growing.

Luo Yuan's heart, which had been in the laboratory for a long time, gradually became excited at this time, and with the opening of the cloning itself, the human body transformation project began to be officially launched!

In addition to Luo Yuan's own genes, these embryos were also transplanted with various superpower genes.

These superpowers are not only the more than 5,000 copies of the original laboratory, with the investment of a large number of resources in the reconstruction area, the number has now reached an astonishing 200,000 copies, basically covering all the evolutionaries in the reconstruction area, Luo Yuan found Xu Zhiqiang, Ling Zhong'an, and even his own genes, I don't know when they were collected.

There are more unknown evolutionaries, although their strength is not strong and they are unknown, but there are some abilities that even Luo Yuan is greedy for.