"Hehe~" Li Ming sneered twice: "What can you do that can make me regret it for the rest of my life?"

"I don't have it, but the country does!" Jin Moran said: "Now that China has become one of the world's great powers, and many cutting-edge technologies have also been involved, don't you want your cultivation to go further?"

"As you said, I, a person who practices martial arts, has a half-dime relationship with technology?" Li Ming said disdainfully.

"If you have another three or four hundred years, you may not need the assistance of high technology, but now, ......" Jin Moran "hehe" smiled: "In this world of lack of spiritual power, if you want to enter the Tao with martial arts, it is almost a pipe dream!"

"Then high-tech is enough?" Jin Moran's words finally moved Li Ming, and Li Ming's body couldn't help but tremble. Jin Moran naturally would not miss this tiny action.

"Of course!" Jin Moran snapped his fingers, and the four men and two women he led in kicked out all the policemen in the private room, and then the four men guarded the door, and after the two women closed the door, they said: "For example: human genetic modification ......"

"Isn't this explicitly forbidden?" Huang Zhishan and Xu Manman asked in surprise.

This is because the current science is not yet mature, and the human genes are extensively modified, and many uncertain factors will cause panic in society. Jin Moran explained flatly: "In fact, the pace of human beings in the genetic engineering and modification program has never stopped. ”

On July 5, 1996, the female Dolly sheep was born, the world's first animal to be successfully cloned using artificial technology. It is a new individual bred using the adult somatic cells of another sheep using cell nuclear transfer technology.

The experiment, which was done in collaboration with a British research institute and an American biotechnology company, shocked the world. For the first time, it triggered the imagination of the general public about the future 'clone'. ”

"On November 27 and December 5, 2017, after five years of unremitting efforts, the team of Sun Qiang, a researcher at the Institute of Neuroscience of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, successively cultivated two somatic cell cloned monkeys 'Zhongzhong' and 'Huahua', taking the lead in solving the world problem of non-human primate cloning.

Since then, the two cloned monkeys have been kept in a special environment and taken care of.

Why is this happening?

On the one hand, it is to facilitate scientific observation and research, and on the other hand, it is to isolate contact with natural monkeys and prevent genetic contamination. ”

"Strictly speaking, the difficulty of cloning somatic cells without developmental characteristics is no less difficult than editing and modifying embryonic genes, but the experimental project of He Jiankui's team pierces the public's nerves even deeper - when is it time for humans to play in person!

In November 2018, mankind took a new step: He Jiankui's team at Southern University of Science and Technology applied genetic modification to human embryos for the first time, and successfully gave birth to twin baby girls who are naturally immune to AIDS.

One stone has stirred up a thousand waves, and people have questioned the necessity of the experiment, the compliance of the process, the uncontrollable nature of the impact, and many ethical issues.

Still, this is a historic step, and everyone knows it: sooner or later, humans will use genetic modification for themselves.

In the past, everyone had been cautious and repeatedly weighed up: who would dare to take this step, when would it be taken, and in what way? Surprised, panicked, and angry. Now it's just like that, and the dust has settled. ”

"What exactly are genes?

From a purely physical point of view, when a star "dies", it will explode and emit a large amount of hydrogen, helium, nitrogen, and oxygen...... and so on, these atoms are combined in different ways to form chains of varying degrees of complexity, which naturally give rise to a variety of molecules of different sizes and properties. This includes human DNA, which is made up of billions of atoms combined and carries all the information necessary to 'make' a human being.

At the life level, a gene is a string of instructions encoded and formed by DNA. All living things grow and develop according to this set of coded labels, and each grows into its own unique individual.

You can think of it as a sheet music, or a hand of mahjong tiles.

Artificial editing of genes is equivalent to rewriting hundreds of millions of years of human music written by the laws of nature (God or God) – whether the music is good or not is no longer decided by God or God, but by humans themselves.

Artificial modification of genes is equivalent to no longer relying on luck to draw cards, human beings can want to design a handful of cards. ”

"It's not fair!" Huang Zhishan, whose family has never been well-off, shouted hysterically: "Isn't this the more advantageous the children of the richer and more powerful families in the future?"

Jin Moran sneered: "From primitive society to today, human beings have never been truly 'fair'!"

Everyone's height, shortness, fat and thinness are different, the place of birth, the family environment is different, and the people and resources they come into contact with are different, how to be fair?

Even if these external factors are overcome, everyone's comprehension ability, intelligence level, and effort level are different, how can there be the same results?

People have different friends and social circles, how can this be fair?

Have you ever been fair with Wang Sicong?"

"The traditional Chinese theory of fairness is 'the wind blows everything', that is: the wind blows fairly for everyone, although each person has a different wind area, different bearing capacity, and different feelings; But the wind is fair to everyone.

Everyone is equal before the law – this is the fairness of the system.

What else is equal?

All human bodies are composed of various molecules formed by the combination of six atoms, such as carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, and sulfur, and the elemental components that form each person are real and equal.

That's all. ”

And with the spread of genetic modification programs, the injustice between people will become more prominent: just like today, some people will have much better access to medical treatment and education than many ordinary people, which is an unavoidable fact in any era. ”

"Just kidding!" Li Ming defended himself with understanding: "The improvement of cultivation, spiritual power is only one aspect, it requires more realm comprehension, how can it be true that you can change your body structure?

"If you don't try anything, how do you know if you can't do it?" Jin Moran noticed that Li Ming was already a little shaken, so he hit the railroad while it was hot: "In 2014, "Understanding the World of Stem Cells with Hawking" starring Hawking was launched on the BBC, and he mentioned in the documentary: 'When we look up at the sky and think about the position of human beings in the universe; Scientists who study stem cells are exploring the depths of the human body and thinking about how to move the entire human species forward......

We have a brave new world ahead of us, and I am confident that we can use this knowledge for the benefit of all humanity. ’

That's what it is!"

Since then, although Hawking has passed away, the research on stem cells has not stopped; Stem cell therapy has become one of the most cutting-edge and hottest directions in medical research today, with rapid development and exciting results.

So where do stem cells come from?

Let's imagine together: when I was still a fertilizer

G egg lua

I floated alone in my fallopian tubes, initially with only one me, and then split into two mes, four mes, and eight mes...... I have more and more divided brothers and sisters; Eventually, when I flowed downstream, we had about a hundred siblings clustered......

At this time, our name is called: embryonic stem cells, which have a developmental totipotent type, are a kind of totipotent cell that can differentiate into all types of cells. We came together and differentiated into bone cells, muscle cells, nerve cells, etc., and after 9 months, I was a whole us.

However, it is a pity that after we are born, these blank embryonic stem cells are lost, and we lose their unique ability, which is the ability to regenerate human tissues.

But in 1962, a breakthrough experiment overturned this. In the experiment, scientists took an adult intestinal tissue cell from the frog's body and put it into a blank egg, which acted as a time machine, allowing DNA to go back in time and return to a state where the entire tadpole could be cultivated, and finally the entire frog was raised. Research has proven that we can produce embryonic stem cells that are immortal and immortal.

We now have the ability to do all sorts of amazing things, all sorts of things that science couldn't do before, and stem cells are expected to revolutionize medicine in a few decades.

Stephen Hawking once said: 'I have spent my life exploring the mysteries of the universe, but there is another universe that also intrigues me: this universe is hidden within our body, the galaxy of cells of humanity itself. ”

"Isn't this the 'ego universe'? Daomen has put forward this theory a long time ago! It's simply a cliché, but in other words. Li Ming said disdainfully.

"But this is another train of thought?" Jin Moran said again: "In this world where spiritual power is exhausted, I want to live forever; The previous cultivation of immortals and cultivation, and the later entry into the Tao with martial arts, all seemed a little pale and weak; Instead, what I mentioned: genetic modification of the human body is more practical. ”

"I have to admit that what you say makes a lot of sense. Li Ming changed his sitting posture, and then said: "But I still say that, I'm not interested!"

However, Jin Moran didn't think so, because it was obvious that Li Ming had more than he said at the beginning. So, he said, "Li Ming, do you know why I have to invite you to join our S Bureau?"

"I'm not a roundworm in your stomach, how can I know this. Li Ming replied lukewarmly.

"Because every ten years, the great powers of the world organize a great adventure, and no one knows what the consequences of this great adventure will be, because none of them have been successful until now. Every time someone goes on an expedition, they either return in vain or their whereabouts are unknown. Jin Moran couldn't impress Li Ming, so he broke out the top-secret information of Bureau S.

"Haven't you succeeded once?" Xu Manman said in surprise that in this technologically advanced society, there are still places that cannot be set foot in? How dangerous is that? So, he blurted out and refused: "Doesn't this mean that we will be cannon fodder? It is even more impossible for us to join your S Bureau!"

"Hmm~ Don't say it! I'm interested in this!"