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Bacteriophage is a type of virus that exists in nature. Although it is said to be a living organism that devours bacteria, it is actually a type of virus. It is a ball of genetic material wrapped in a protein shell and has a tail.

The special thing about bacteriophages is that they use bacteria as their hosts and can automatically find and identify target bacteria. They then use their tails to attach to the bacterial cell wall for invasion. They use lysozyme to open a gap in the bacterial cell wall. The tail sheath of the tail is like an actomyoses. The protein shrinks, exposing the tail axis, and suddenly penetrates into the cell wall, just like a syringe, injecting the genetic material of the head, that is, DNA into the bacterial cell wall.

Finally, the DNA hijacks and transforms the bacteria's own substances, changing everything in the bacteria into phage DNA, which grows into phages and breaks out of the shell.

This series of operations is extremely complex, including recognition, action, genetics, hijacking, etc. The structure and appearance are similar to robots, but the phage itself is extremely small, only 0.01-0.1 microns, that is, 10 nanometers to 100 nanometers.

A super-functional robot at such a scale is indeed an excellent template for nanorobots.

However, it is absolutely impossible to build a robot of this level using metal materials or composite materials at this stage. It is and can only be cultivated through biotechnology and using specific means and materials.

Gene editing technology can also be used...

Zhou Feiyu thought secretly.

Just when he was conducting new research, there were some new research developments in the agricultural research department.

Boss, the No. 1 rice that will be tested in the second half of the year has been verified by feeding mice in the past two months, and some results have been achieved...

At noon, during meal time, Huang Hongsheng, the director of the Department of Agricultural Research, found him and briefly reported on the recent work progress while eating.

Rice No. 1, which is a rice variety edited by Zhou Feiyu, is experimenting with a gene fragment of a polysaccharide synthesis gene, hoping to produce polysaccharides in rice. Just like health products such as Xianggu, Ganoderma lucidum, and wolfberry, they produce various polysaccharides that are beneficial to the human body. Xianggu polysaccharide, wolfberry polysaccharide and so on.

After the Mid-Autumn Festival, the rice was harvested, and we immediately arranged for the mice to taste it.

This kind of rice is truly genetically modified rice. No one knows what effects it will have if eaten, and no one dares to try it immediately.

Even Zhou Feiyu, the creator and cheater, wouldn't dare to do it now. His own body is important.

If there are three advantages and two disadvantages, it will be a big loss.

As for the people at the Ministry of Agricultural Research, it is not without warriors, but Zhou Feiyu has issued a ban and will fire anyone who messes up. He doesn't want to get into a lot of trouble later.

Therefore, formal procedures must be followed.

Feed the mice for a trial period, and if there is no problem, then feed it to primates. In the end, if there is no problem, volunteers will be assigned if there is sufficient data to prove the benefits.

This process is quite long and takes no more than two or three years without even thinking about it. It may not even produce results unless it is an emergency listing. Just like the global viral cold, vaccines from major pharmaceutical companies were urgently approved for marketing.

This is also the reason why medicine is becoming more and more expensive. The cost of the research and development stage is really too expensive!

Oh, how was the result?

Zhou Feiyu asked indifferently. Most of his mind at the moment was still thinking about the biological version of nanorobots, and he was not too concerned about the genetically modified rice that would take several years to produce results.

Huang Hongsheng also understood, but he was afraid that his young boss would be impatient, so he took advantage of the boss's time to come here to do research and report the good news, so that the boss would be more confident and continue to invest money later.

There are too many such things. Huang Hongsheng has seen a lot of them himself, and it is even more common in his circle of friends.

Even though the investment boss was very excited and motivated at the beginning, but after half a year and a year, there was no results, and he immediately became impatient. After two or three years with no results, most investment bosses exploded on the spot and quit the business. There are only a few bosses who can persist, and most of them are based on continuous good news and venture capital investment.

Although a boss like Zhou Feiyu, who has strong skills, is unlikely to become impatient after a year or so, Huang Hongsheng feels that he still needs to give some feedback.

We tested more than a dozen groups of mice in different situations, and each group was divided into some situations, which were distinguished from the length of feeding time, the amount, etc. We found that the longer the feeding time, the different aspects of their bodies The higher the function. Whether it is reflection, sensitivity, or even wisdom, there is an improvement...

Huang Hongsheng said in detail: However, it is not without its shortcomings. The longer the mice are fed, their physical functions will indeed improve, but their spirits will also become more excited, including increased sexual desire and aggressiveness, and even partially produce A sign of bloodthirst.”

Bloodthirsty?

Zhou Feiyu was startled when he heard this, and said with a smile: Is it possible that he has been turned into a madman?

Taking too many supplements can lead to nosebleeds, and this is the first time he has heard of bloodthirsty. But if you think about it carefully, this possibility cannot be ruled out. After all, no gene exists in isolation, but is related to other genes and affects each other.

Many times, Zhou Feiyu actually wanted to laugh when he saw news reports saying that pruning a certain gene could make a person beautiful, or that pruning a certain gene could resist the invasion of HIV, etc. Do these people think that all genes in the human body are isolated?

Even if you are building blocks, each block does exist in isolation, but if you remove the block below, won’t the block above collapse as well?

Yes, individual building blocks exist in isolation, but in the process of building the building blocks, you have connected these isolated building blocks with each other, and they are no longer purely isolated.

The same is true for pruning genes. When you build this gene, it seems that only the characteristics expressed by this gene will change, but in fact, many places have changed overall, but the changes are not as obvious as the characteristics expressed by this gene.

It is not ruled out that No. 1 rice has the effect in this regard.

Huang Hongsheng laughed, and then said: Perhaps the efficacy of No. 1 rice is too strong. In the spring of next year, I plan to conduct further experiments with primates to compare the performance of different species feeding No. 1 rice.

Okay, just go ahead and do it.

Zhou Feiyu nodded in agreement.

thank you boss!

Huang Hongsheng said immediately.

By the way, is there any new progress in the research on spinal disc herniation?

Zhou Feiyu then asked about another genetic research project.

Huang Hongsheng shook his head and replied: Although we have done a lot of work and studied some mechanisms, we have encountered a bottleneck in the direction of treatment. The protruding ridges are basically degenerated. I want to restore it, but I haven’t found the direction yet.”