Chapter 13: The Weight of Eternal Life
According to DST, if resources are scarce, then the repair of living organisms will not be able to carry out at full capacity, and they will be short-lived. Experiments such as nematodes, fruit flies, and mice have proved that if the food intake of these organisms is artificially controlled and their energy absorption is controlled, their lifespan can be extended.
Reducing calorie intake by 30 to 50 percent actually prolongs their lives by 30 to 40 percent. DST believes that the essence of life is the continuation of genes, but the restriction of food on female mice in the experiment not only increases the lifespan of mice, but also reduces or even disappears their reproductive ability, which is very inconsistent with the theory that "insufficient energy will make organisms pay more attention to reproduction rather than prolonging individual life", which is very embarrassing for DST.
In real life, this kind of example is not uncommon, for example, some healthy old people, usually drink some tea and gruel, it stands to reason that the energy intake of life is extremely insufficient, and they should live for a short time, but they are not short-lived, and they are still disease-free, and they live to be more than 100 years old. And those who are well-nourished and well-fed often do not live to this age, a phenomenon that makes the DST theory self-defeating.
The front of the data is mostly the progress of life science research, in fact, there is not much dry goods, Luo Xu is a little impatient to see, fortunately, the data starts from the back, showing that the real highlight is coming.
"What? Where Zone D is actually focused on life science research? ”
Luo Xu looked at the profile in disbelief, this is really a precursor to someone sending a pillow if you want to sleep!
Extremely happy to check the back of the information, this check he is both a little lost and a little happy, lost is that the essence of life is really not so simple to study, even if this is the future, but after all, it is only more than 40 years beyond 2013, just in such a little time, want to crack the mystery of life is still a little shorter.
But Luo Xu is happy that with the pace of life science research, hundreds of epibiotic results have been born, the first of which made him stunned, is the treatment of cancer.
This epiphytic result will definitely inspire oncologists and some cancer experts in 2013 to think that the treatment of cancer by OSS does not focus on the molecular mechanism differences between colon cancer, lung cancer, breast cancer, etc., or the similarities and differences between the response of various cancers to chemotherapy, but focuses on the telomeres of DNA.
Telomeres are repeats at the ends of chromosomes, and each time a cell replicates, telomeres are untied and tied like shoelaces, but due to the orientation of the enzymes that synthesize DNA, the telomeres wear themselves out in the process. When telomeres wear out to a certain extent, chromosome stability cannot be maintained, and the cells are of course unable to replicate and die completely.
However, studies have found that telomeres can be repaired by telomerase, in most cells that do not need to divide often, telomerase is not active, but in the cancer cells that never die, telomerase is highly active, telomeres wear a little, telomerase immediately repairs, then wears, and then immediately repairs, so that a single cancer cell has the ability to proliferate indefinitely, for the human body, it is like the emergence of uncontrolled cell tissue.
OSS theory is to remove the telomerase gene from cancer cells through genetic engineering, so that they cannot proliferate, and completely control cancer cells.
With the development of science and technology, this method has been tested in the base, and finally proved to be feasible, and has become one of the many feasible methods for anti-treatment of cancer.
Seeing this, Luo Xu couldn't help but laugh a few times, doesn't this kind of technology mean that he will never have to worry about cancer from now on? Alas, good luck is the benefit of this, great fortune, great life, and great health!
Luo Xu was even more excited to see the epiphytic results later, these achievements can be directly applied to the human body, because with the support of a large number of clinical trial data, it has matured from a technical point of view. One of the transformations of the human body, Luo Xu nodded straight at it, and the method was very good.
Lysosens, Amylosens, and Replenisens, which represent intracellular waste accumulation, extracellular waste accumulation, cell loss, and atrophy, respectively. The theory is very simple, living cells will swallow food, viruses, bacteria, and will also produce aging and waste organelles, which need to be cleaned at any time, and it is lysosomes that clean these impurities in the human body.
It uses acid hydrolase to break down all kinds of waste products and discharge the residue out of the cell, keeping the cell alive, but the fact is by no means perfect, sometimes the waste that is not completely cleaned and decomposed will be deposited in the cell, and over time, it will clog the sewer like food residue, affecting the function of the cell.
In this regard, the researchers proposed to genetically modify lysosomes to produce stronger enzymes, and finally modified lysosomes that are harmless to the human body and can better serve the cells of the human body.
This is not the end, there are sometimes non-degradable substances in the liquid environment where cells live, these insoluble amino acid precipitates and some necrotic nerve cell fibers can be deposited into amyloid, which gradually fills the cell voids and causes damage to the human body. There is a side effect that can activate the body's immune system locally and help the body destroy these waste products.
In the heart and other places where cells are not renewable, if the cells here die, unlike the liver, there will be newly divided cells to replace, often unsustainable, in response to this, researchers use growth factors to induce cell growth, or simply use stem cells to directly clone a healthy heart to replace, although it looks scary, but the implementation effect is perfect.
These plans can't make Luo Xu directly become a superman, but if he makes good use of these techniques, there will be no problem in keeping his body 100% healthy from now on. It is conceivable that this is a technology that many people in the world dream of, including those leaders who are at the pinnacle of power, and if Venezuela had such technology, it would not have made Chávez die so painfully.
Luo Xu couldn't help but have a strong interest in the research of Area D, he took the white clothes handed over by the service robot, this kind of clothes made of nanomaterials not only feel soft and silky, but also can not let any sweat and dust stain it, and it is very comfortable to wear, Luo Xufu just put it on and accepted it satisfactorily.
Finding a chair and sitting down, Luo Xu asked Bob to project the relevant information of the D section in front of him one by one, and he drank the hot drink brewed by the machine by himself, and looked at it slowly.
Since the establishment of Underground Base 17, a series of studies have been conducted in Section D, but prior to 2047, those studies did not involve biological classification, but were mostly weapons studies. By the year 2047, an order from above revoked all previous research in Section D, and a team of several hundred people took over the magpie's nest and began research into the life sciences.
In 2052, when the U.S. Peirce joint scientific expedition team drilled through the ice in Antarctica to explore Lake Vostok, they discovered a virus that had been frozen for hundreds of thousands of years, so they carefully retrieved it to Base 17 for research. In the course of their research, the researchers discovered that the virus contained unimaginable powers that could overturn our understanding of viruses as a substance between living and non-living things, and immediately leaned the focus of research towards the virus named Miracle.
"Oh my God, the next few floors of the relationship are all places for virus research?"
Luo Xu choked a few mouthfuls of water, and felt a trace of cold sweat flowing out of his forehead, whether it was a virus surnamed Wen or a virus surnamed Lie, anyway, when it comes to the word virus, it will make people panic. What's more, this M virus can make Americans pay so much attention, so it is definitely not simple in terms of important surnames.
"Interestingly, the Americans have put so much effort into it, and the plan must be not small."
Luo Xu sneered a few times, got up and walked to the door, "Bob, guide me to the sixth floor." ”
Bob immediately complied with the instructions, and a K500 humanoid robot guarding outside the gate flashed red in his eyes, and walked in front to lead Luo Xu to the elevator. Luo Xu pressed the button on the sixth floor, the elevator light dimmed, and it landed hundreds of meters deep, and it was not until more than half a minute later that the elevator gradually stopped.
The door slowly opened, revealing a white and immaculate passage under the condensed light, Luo Xu did not hesitate, and stepped into the sixth layer area in two steps. The sixth level of Area D is used as a place for the study and preservation of M viruses, and in terms of biological hazard protection measures, it must be required by the highest level 4 standards. In China, except for the Institute of Virology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Wuhan, which has reached level 4, there is no laboratory that can give the standard requirements for reaching level 4, so Luo Xu is not only out of attention to the M virus, but also curious about the mysterious D area, but also wants to see it.
However, Luo Xu soon saw the troubles of the fourth-level high-protection biological laboratory, first he walked into the room where the clothes were placed and took off his whole body clothes, then went into the disinfection room to eliminate bacteria and viruses all over the body, and began to wear biochemical protective clothing after drying. This kind of protective clothing is difficult to wear, not to mention, but it is relatively bloated, but it is very powerful in function, not only with its own respiratory and circulatory system, but also from the material can effectively isolate the human body from contact with the outside world, not to mention bacteria and viruses, even some common chemical hazards can also be protected, such as dimethyl sulfate vinegar, ammonia, chlorine, phosgene, hydrogen cyanide and other 21 kinds of industrial chemical dangerous goods.
It was Bob's explanation that allowed Luo Xu to relax and walk into the laboratory, otherwise he would not dare to step into this place. After laboriously putting on his protective suit, he was finally able to walk into the negative pressure laboratory where the virus was stored.
The area of this biological laboratory is not small, and all kinds of microscopes, centrifuges, and ultra-clean workbenches are neatly placed, but this is only the secondary isolation in the laboratory, and it has not yet gone deep into the primary isolation, so Luo Xu did not stay long, and walked into an open door under Bob's instructions, and came to the core place of the implementation of primary isolation.
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