Demolition Earth

Chapter 106 DNA
In technical research, the problem of direction is almost the only problem. After the direction is determined, the emergence of results is almost certain.

From the patients who received S therapy, they found many cases of diseases caused by abnormal immune system, such as lupus erythematosus, atopic asthma... Before receiving S therapy, most of them were kept for some time For tissue samples, it is only necessary to analyze the corresponding DNA fragments of the previous patients and the corresponding DNA fragments of the patients after treatment to determine whether the S therapy is a treatment for the human body at the DNA level.

This experimental project team is in progress, and it has just started now. Judging from the two cases that have been analyzed, it is true that the patient's DNA has been changed, and it is all over the body, in every cell. Regarding the DNA of this section, have all been changed.

This point was verified, and Avery asked almost subconsciously: "What about the before and after DNA comparison of other normal patients?"

Although he is not a medical professional, Leon still immediately understood what Avery meant—since the S therapy treats immune diseases by changing the information of this fragment in DNA, then analyze other diseases and find out the different fragments in it. Can the corresponding information in other DNA fragments also be found?
If this idea is expanded, if aliens complete the treatment of diseases by modifying DNA, does it mean that people on earth can also search for the cases of aliens, just copy the corresponding DNA fragments, and then find out how to treat diseases? Can the technology of writing these fragments into normal cells be able to replicate S therapy?
"This work has just begun, and I haven't had time to think about this level. Li Daiyuan sent you here to find the right person, and you can take charge of this part."

"How many DNA sequencers does the project team have now?"

"0."

Avery didn't understand: "Then your previous work..."

"Should we start with sequencing? In this era of information flood, we only need to find the DNA comparison data of those patients."

Avery immediately understood what he meant, and also realized why the director of the project team was a computer doctor.

Avery originally meant that according to traditional research, patients were recruited, tissues were extracted, DNA data was measured by a sequencer, and then compared... But in fact, similar work must have been done in all countries in the world. In the earliest days, when the S therapy was still in the laboratory stage, many DNA comparisons were made before and after the DNA of the patients who had undergone the S therapy experiment, and it was indeed found that the DNA of many patients had changed. It is one of the important basis for the treatment by nano-robots.

It’s just that we didn’t know what these changes meant at the time, and the changes at the DNA level were often on a large scale. Different patients, different diseases, and different parts of the changes were different, so it was impossible to start researching.Now, Sunshine Medical has announced one of the most important parts, which is equivalent to providing a research starting point,

"What we need more is a computer," Leon said, pointing to the computer in front of him. "The DNA sequencing of patients who have received S therapy has been done before in various countries, and a lot of information is readily available. Understand the reasons for these differences. Now, we only need to compare the information characteristics of these fragments, so I was asked to be in charge of this project. However, supercomputing resources are not available in the United States, and the current research needs for aliens There are so many, Americans will definitely not invest resources in a cooperative project. I hope you can organize the situation here into a report and report it to Li Daiyuan. China is now a supercomputing power. This project is a project team of Sino-US cooperation. The United States Intelligence is provided, China provides analysis, that's normal."

Avery nodded: "OK, I'll sort it out."

Avery quickly got to work, before she even had time to get acquainted with where she slept at night.She worked until the early hours of the next day to complete the report.After sending it to Li Daiyuan, he also called him as a verbal reminder.

"It's not difficult," Li Daiyuan replied after hearing the request, "but it may still take a few days.",

"How many days?"

"Three days, if you are lucky, you may be able to give it to you the next day."

"By the way, if it is possible, can you add some data, related cases also exist in China, I heard that there are no fewer than Americans."

"You are well-informed, but it's unnecessary. This is intelligence work, not scientific research to attract funds. We don't need data to convince anyone. We just determine the direction of intelligence."

Avery was stunned for a moment: "You're right." This is also a subconscious habit of her long-term scientific research. She always thinks about the amount of data as much as possible when making reports, but she never thought that the Chinese may not be willing to share data for free. to the Americans.The whole world unites against aliens, which only exists in movies.

During the few days waiting for domestic analysis data, Avery will be concerned about the brain information analysis experiment conducted by Sunshine Medical in San Francisco. It is said that the long-term experimenters of this experiment have recruited more than 20 people. More than 5.For this reason, Sunshine Medical rented an entire apartment building near the company as a dormitory for employees. Every day when you walk on the street, you can see these people walking through the community of San Francisco.It can be seen from local news papers that the mayor of San Francisco appreciates Sunshine Medical's rapid increase in local employment.

What Avery thought of at the moment was what Zhao Changqi said in that speech, and he also subconsciously thought of the project he was working on.Thinking about it carefully, isn’t the alien just like their S therapy, quietly infiltrating into human society, using human order to exert a subtle influence on everyone, who would know that in this quietness, their own DNA , the most important information substance of the human body, has undergone key changes, aliens can quietly change the DNA sequence at this level, and eliminate diseases, who can guarantee that they will not hide something in it to cause diseases , or something more terrifying?
Two days later, Avery received an email from Li Daiyuan, and the results have come out, and all the comparison and positioning work has been completed.

For Avery, the real work starts now.

By comparing with the cases, she can roughly guess what functions these altered genes may be responsible for, but guesses are just guesses after all, and scientific research inevitably needs the support of evidence.

Since the Human Genome Project, all countries and medical companies in the world have regarded DNA as the gold mine of new-age medicine, concentrated their efforts on mining, and took the lead in protecting the results through various patents.Avery believes that some of the information must have been studied by many organizations before. No matter what level they have studied, Avery needs to find a way to get their cooperation. She does not need to know all of the information. , only a part is needed, and only the corresponding direction can be given—the most important point is to prove that the aliens have no malicious intentions to modify the DNA of the earthlings.

(End of this chapter)