Chapter 67 New Functions, Scientists Gather in Beijing
At present, the system has several functions, such as accelerating land, accelerating spring, gene simulator, and system mall.
Among them, the gene simulator contains the gene lottery function, which can be used to draw cards and obtain special species genes by spending money, which is a bit of a chicken rib, without corresponding plants, and cannot be used, and will not play a huge role until the later stage.
In addition to selling a variety of common seeds, the system mall can also trade your own transformed plants with people in other parallel worlds.
At present, Yang Zhou has not traded, he has been pit by the lottery once, and he is more cautious about the system to search for other malls, and he has not used it yet.
Yang Zhou is going to use it again after a while.
After all, when trading with other people, the currency is based on experience points, and Yang Zhou doesn't have much experience points, and he can't afford to buy good things when he encounters them, so he simply doesn't spend money in vain.
Now the new feature is very interesting, in the mysterious space, there is a virtual computer.
There's a piece of software running inside called the Species Synthesizer.
You can choose to fuse the genes of two or more species together, and there is a certain probability that a new species will be born.
There has always been a problem plaguing Yang Zhou, such as wanting to transform rice, which is like a big tree, but the original genes of rice, even if they are optimized, are already very extreme when they reach two or three meters.
Because rice is a herbaceous plant, while trees are woody plants.
The difference between the two is that herbaceous plants are mostly one-year-old and two-year-old plants, while woody plants are tall and erect with a distinct trunk, while herbaceous plants have no obvious trunk.
Yang Zhou wants to turn herbaceous plants into woody plants, which is almost impossible.
This amounts to a logical radical change to the plant from the underlying genetic code.
Equivalent to rewriting the system.
It is better to modify the woody plant so that its fruit produces similar starch as rice, so that the probability of achieving this is relatively high.
Now that you have a species synthesizer, you can try to take a certain woody plant and put the herb in it to synthesize, and maybe the apple tree will produce the fruit of an apple-sized amount of rice.
Of course, this is a metaphor, but the actual situation is much more complicated and the probability of success is not high.
It takes a good understanding of plant genes and some modifications to make it possible for multiple plants to reintegrate into new plants.
The species synthesizer only plays a role in optimization and automation, and the actual research is still to be carried out by Yang Zhou himself.
After learning about the function of the species synthesizer, Yang Zhou found that it could not be used for the time being, and the current goal was to transform the "giant rice".
His 10,000 samples, with many varieties, are suitable for different terrains, and the taste of rice is also different.
Yang Zhou even thought of some brain holes, and in the future, he could improve the taste.
For example, mapo tofu-flavored rice, chicken-flavored rice, seafood-flavored rice, and so on.
I don't have the energy to do research now, and when the disease is cured, this is the direction of research.
At the same time as Yang Zhou was developing mutant rice, countless biological scientists around the world received invitations to the Global Academic Exchange Forum on Gene Code hosted by Qingbei University and relevant departments.
Qingbei University first sent invitation letters to each school to allocate the number of participants.
At the same time, some world-renowned biologists will also receive separate invitations.
Yang Zhou's popularity in the global biotech community also has some fame.
With the publication of the journal Nature, countless biological scientists have realized that a new era seems to be on the horizon.
The genetic code mentioned in the paper is likely to become a hot topic in the next few decades.
The most important thing is that in the paper, some puzzling black technologies are also revealed, such as how Yang Zhou shortened the growth cycle of carrots, which was originally 105 days of maturity, but it only took more than 30 days, and the speed increased by almost three times.
There is no doubt that Huaguo's biotechnology has made great progress and is at the forefront of the times.
Of course, many scientists remain skeptical and do not fully believe that Yang Zhou summed up the laws of genetic code, and it is possible that the technology mentioned in the paper is very different from the actual situation.
In any case, this kind of high-end cutting-edge academic forum is of great interest to countless biologists.
Huaguo is currently the country with the best control of the Y situation, looking at the ghost of his country, it is better to choose to go to China to participate in the meeting, and travel by the way to hide the Y situation.
The official welcomes foreign scholars to visit, as long as they show the invitation letter of the academic exchange forum jointly organized by Qingbei University and relevant departments, they will approve the visa.
Zhang Feng, who is far away in the beautiful country of MIT, also received an invitation letter.
If Yang Zhou's paper was not published, Zhang Feng would not have paid attention to it at all, but now he can't ignore it.
Originally, he also wanted to intercept Hu Yangzhou's research, let his laboratory overcome the mutant carrot experiment, and publish the paper in advance, but Yang Zhou did not submit to the journal "Cell", but actually published it in "Nature".
The content of the paper has also been upgraded to no longer be limited to mutant carrots.
Instead, starting from the source, the gene code theory was proposed.
Zhang Feng carefully studied Yang Zhou's paper and found that although Yang Zhou proposed the theory of genetic code, the arguments were not sufficient.
In fact, there are many points that can be questioned.
Why is it that dozens of carrot mutant carrot cases can be relied on to confirm that there are important and non-important genes in the carrot gene system?
It is important to know that genes are a whole, and any change may cause the collapse of the entire species.
But the publication of Yang's paper, which at least represents a reviewer in the journal Nature, endorses Yang's work.
Zhang Feng guessed that it was mostly related to Yang Zhou's physical results and planting mutant carrots.
Not long after, Zhang Feng announced in his laboratory that he would personally go to China to participate in this international conference.
What he thought in his heart was that he had to question at the meeting that Yang Zhou could not be allowed to occupy the title of the founder of genetic code.
Most of the people invited to this international conference are not botanists, but other biologists, because Yang Zhou's paper mainly talks about genes, and scientists who study genes will pay attention to Yang Zhou's research results.
Because not paying attention means falling behind, and there is nothing more terrifying for scientists than derailing the world from what they are studying.
People who do not pay attention to the progress of science and technology in the world are destined to be eliminated by the world, and it is possible that what he researches, others in the world have already studied the results.
It is possible that someone has discovered a better way, or someone may have figured out that this is a dead end.
The International Symposium on Genetic Code, although not well-known among ordinary people, is a big event for scholars.
Regardless of the study of cells, genetics, plants, animals, as long as the scientists related to genes, people who can come to China are ready to come to see what Yang Zhou has to say.
For many well-known scholars, Yang Zhou is just a new generation of scholars.
However, the technology used by Yang Zhou is similar to the large-scale application of Cas9 technology in previous years, whether it is plant cells or animal cells, the research ideas will change.
The fast scientists have arrived in Huaguo and have begun to linger in various scenic spots in the capital, and there are also people who can't wait to contact Yang Zhou and make requests for visits.
For these people, Yang Zhou unanimously refused, most of his current time is in the laboratory, otherwise he is in the greenhouse base.
Many people come from very big backgrounds, but Yang Zhou treats them all equally.
It has angered many scientists, and dissatisfaction with Yang Zhou is also accumulating, coupled with the tandem of caring people, the academic conference has not yet started, and the voice of opposition to Yang Zhou has appeared.
There is also something that can't be refused, that is, Mori and Jun of the foot basin country, who helped purchase experimental equipment, and now they are catching up with Yang Zhou to develop a new gene editor with him, which has no way to refuse.
I can only let him follow him for the time being, and occasionally discuss the topic of genes and proteins with Mori and Jun.
"Yang Sang, aren't you nervous at all? More and more of the world's top scientists have arrived in Beijing, and they may face a lot of doubts at academic conferences. Mori and Jun said with some concern.
Yang Zhou shook his head and said in English: "Don't be nervous, we have a saying in China that soldiers come to block the water and cover the earth, just do my own thing." ”
Now that he communicates with Mori Kazujun, he doesn't need to use a translator anymore, and Yang Zhou has already exposed the fact that he can speak English.
"The conference is held in two days, and I heard some gossip that Zhang Fengjun is talking to some people to question your research results, and if he succeeds, the genetic code system theory you have established will be overturned." Mori Kazutoshi said.
Yang Zhou pointed to a paddy field in front of him and said calmly: "In a few days, the seeds should germinate, facts speak louder than words, I believe in my theory." ”
Although Sen Hejun is still a little worried, but seeing Yang Zhou's confident appearance, it is not good to say anything, in his opinion, the tens of thousands of mutant rice sown by Yang Zhou can sprout dozens of them, even if these data are taken out, plus the carrot experimental data, for a new genetic code, it is still relatively thin.
Yang Zhou is his partner, and he hopes that Yang Zhou will not fail and be recognized by scientists around the world.
Sen and Jun are actually also gambling, he bets that Yang Zhou really summed up the theory of genetic code, not as Zhang Feng recently proposed, Yang Zhou is a blind cat and a dead mouse, and the so-called genetic code is just conjecture.
Yang Zhou is picking up people's teeth and wisdom, so he is making a mystery!
The same conjecture has long been put forward by science fiction writers and scientists.