Episode 142. Familiar Greetings (2)
Joyna ignored the AI and asked whether she would continue playing the information, looking shocked and stared at the Petri dish.
There was something in the petri dish, according to the idea of a normal person, that should be a similar experimental creature as I saw before, because the calipers and robotic arms that fixed something were still in a sash posture. But now there is nothing inside, which is completely abnormal.
"Something... ran away?"
"Is this the product of Morgana's experiment... Is something wrong... but why... isn't it right? Time is simply unreasonable... Why is this happening...?"
Joyna frowned and kept thinking, and felt a vague premonition in her heart, which was a strange premonition that she couldn't even explain clearly.
"Well...continue to play the information." Joyna finally issued an order.
She didn't want to think unnecessary anymore, and she couldn't figure it out anyway. Why not just look down and see if she could find any useful information.
When the virtual reality image appeared again, Joyna was already calm and simply leaned on the Petri dish to watch it with concentration.
———
“It can live in almost any environment—
Ponds, streams, lakes, rice fields, shoals and oceans... They can survive almost every water in nature... Such a magical creation..."
“…The pH level does not affect, the salt content does not matter, and they don’t even care about the temperature…
The hot springs at 87°C and the glaciers at minus 70°C, they can continue to survive...so powerful!"
The figure in the image danced and kept muttering in the laboratory, just with a dynamic music that set off the atmosphere at that time.
Even though most molds are not that harsh to the environment, it still has to be said that this mold found in Antarctica is definitely a monster.
A monster that didn't exist a few minutes ago.
——Yes, this is a new variety that has just "evolved" in the laboratory.
The staff of the Morgana research team believe that this new variety evolved randomly from their petri dishes after 38 natural gene selections.
So, Morgana calls it t
38.
They fought for seven years for the results of this experiment.
When the clock dialed back to the beginning, from Antarctica to Rose Medicine's laboratory, Morgana kept working.
She wants to find the answers that meet expectations among countless multiple-choice questions, working at high intensity for more than 18 hours a day, sometimes sleeping for only two or three hours, staying in the laboratory except eating and going to the toilet, constantly giving herself blood.
Sometimes, human potential and desire are equally important, and the greater the pressure, the greater the motivation. This is especially true for people like Morgana.
The regeneration ability and tenacious vitality of mold and plants surpass all animals, including humans. Morgana has asked herself countless times, since they are all life on the earth, why can't humans have the same vitality and lifespan as plants?
Although, this sounds like a fool.
In fact, a few months after returning from that investigation, Morgana and the researchers successfully discovered the mystery of homologous genes.
The first phase of the study went on very quickly and successfully.
In order to prove Morgana's theory, the researchers used gene fragments of specific plants as culture mother liquor, extracted a certain mold gene obtained from the ice lake, mixed culture, and then made an amazing discovery - a non-cellular life form that proliferated in replication, which is often called a virus.
For humans, it may be a terrible virus that has never been seen before, but for algae and almost all plants, it is just a powerful transformation medium.
This virus can complete life activities in host cells, replicate itself, repair and replace host genes, and has extremely strong immune ability. It not only resists streptosclerotic division of ordinary primitive molds, but also provides the possibility of artificial intervention in host adults.
In short, Morgana and her team not only demonstrated the existence of homologous genes, but also successfully created new viruses that can transform biological ecology.
The study then enters the second phase.
But now, a tricky new question arises here - how to artificially cultivate plants infected with viruses?
Morgana wanted to obtain stable virus-bearing molds and let their offspring retain the characteristics of the virus, but most molds gradually lost their inheritance after two generations. So she thought of finding a special plant.
First, we need to find a sufficiently adaptable parent strain to the virus, and then stabilize the genetic information of the offspring of this parent strain so that it can produce a new generation of viruses like it. Of course, this requires a large amount of experimental data as the basis.
Initially, Morgana used screening and exhaustive methods to manually search for infertile bodies in nearly 4.7 million plants, implant the virus, and after culture for a period of time, they observed whether their progeny survival rates and traits changed.
After hundreds of days of attempts, they found that this method was too slow.
After preliminary calculations, manual screening and stability require at least fifty years to find results. According to this calculation, the military's requirements cannot be met at all.
As a last resort, Morgana must find a new way.
It happened that during this period, something important happened in the world—
The Planetary Council suddenly decided to launch a huge new plan called the Titan Project in the near future.
For some reason, the "Titan Project" merged the original space research project, and now involves hundreds of more extensive and heavyweight new projects, including biology, aerospace engineering, super energy, medicine, quantum computing, artificial intelligence, etc., covering almost all cutting-edge disciplines.
Moreover, the Planet Council has invited major scientific research institutions around the world to recruit top talents to submit project plans, and provide hundreds of billions of research funds for this purpose, set up new institutions to supervise the implementation of the plan.
It seems that it is very urgent to gamble on the fate of mankind and give it all.
This is a lot of discussion in society, and many people speculate that this is due to the major breakthrough in human space research and various plans need to be reintegrated to draw new directions.
Back to Morgana.
Although the Planet Council's hasty actions and motives have become a mystery, the people have no idea what the "Titan Project" is, it is good news for her.
Because she was in the plan, the new project had little impact on research, but instead allowed her to enjoy many convenient conditions. So she sought help from the Planetary Council military, applied to transfer a super-large quantum intelligent brain for the research project, and licensed the construction of a solar matrix system to provide energy for it for a long time.
The technological means used by Ross Medicine have become more advanced and the screening efficiency has been greatly improved.
Morgana worked tirelessly and led her subordinates to use advanced quantum technology to screen the mother strain of mold. Finally, six infertile plants were found among nearly five million primitive plants and re-edited the genes for them.
Chapter completed!