Science on the Rise: Starting with Cell Editors

　　At this time, Lu Li was writing a paper in the laboratory. Not far from him, there were two green rabbits eating carrots.

　　(Big guys, come with a wave of data, thank you!)

Chapter 53 Lu Li has completed a new project

　　After several days of experiments, Lu Li had already collected a wealth of data, so he wrote the paper quite fast, with his fingers jumping on the keyboard, crackling, and finishing a page in a minute or two.

　　However, at this moment, Professor Xu and Professor Tian came to the outside of the laboratory. Lu Li greeted Ning Wei. If it is Professor Xu and others, you can come to him at will, so Professor Xu and Professor Tian entered the laboratory smoothly.

　　"Lu Li, we came to you for a drink. Your speech is too much to our taste."

　　Professor Xu said happily.

　　"I made a special observation, and the response was very strong. Your speech should be able to influence a lot of people."

　　Professor Tian also smiled.

　　However, at this moment, Professor Xu suddenly saw the green rabbit in the cage.

　　"Why are these two rabbits green?"

　　Professor Xu wondered.

　　The words fell, and he suddenly remembered something his students once mentioned: Lu Li wanted to transform animals so that they could perform photosynthesis, and finally borrowed a few white rabbits for experiments.

　　"Could it be..."

　　Professor Xu stared at the green rabbit with wide eyes, and said to Lu Li anxiously, "Could it be that your experiment was successful? Are these two green rabbits modified products that can perform photosynthesis?"

　　"what?"

　　Professor Tian suspects that he has heard it wrong. Is it possible for rabbits to perform photosynthesis?

　　Hearing the voices of the two professors, Lu Li stood up, turned around, and said with a smile, "Professor Xu, Professor Tian, ​​these two green rabbits can indeed perform photosynthesis. After writing it, submit it to Cell.”

　　"You... how did you do it?"

　　Rao is that Professor Xu has been shocked by Lu Li many times, and at this time, he is still shocked and even stutters when he speaks.

　　Professor Tian's eyes are also full of unbelievable expressions, allowing animals to perform photosynthesis. This kind of fantasy has been imagined by many people in the past, but it was just thinking about it, and it was impossible to achieve, but now... Lu Li Made this a reality!

　　Lu Li introduced: "I used single-base gene editing technology to transform the chloroplast inside the pine cell, turning it into a parasitic chloroplast, which can directly enter the epidermal cells of rabbits, and can perform photosynthesis and absorb carbon dioxide and water. , producing oxygen and sugars."

　　"Modifying the genes of chloroplasts so that chloroplasts have the ability to parasitize is easy to say, but it is as hard as heaven to achieve."

　　Professor Xu took a deep breath and couldn't help but look at Lu Li carefully. Now he really wants to know what kind of structure Lu Li's head is, and his talent is so terrifying. to study Lu Li's head.

　　"The rabbit's immune system recognizes everything that enters the body, and foreign objects like chloroplasts are cleared by the immune system. Did you solve this problem? Will the parasitic chloroplast invade other cells in the rabbit? Also, how does it work, rabbit Can you breathe without your lungs now?"

　　At this time, Professor Tian asked several questions in one breath.

　　Lu Li replied: "I have made a special modification to the gene of the parasitic chloroplast, which will not be attacked by the rabbit's immune system. In the current experiment, we have not found the phenomenon that the parasitic chloroplast invades other cells of the rabbit. As for the effect, I have already It has been tested, and the rabbit can completely survive through the oxygen generated by photosynthesis, but it is accustomed to breathing with the lungs, so wherever there is air, they will habitually use the lungs to breathe."

　　"Can the rabbit not eat, but maintain life through photosynthesis like a plant?"

　　"Theoretically, it is possible. I added a code to the gene of the parasitic chloroplast. After it is parasitized in the rabbit cell, it will generate the corresponding hydrolase, decompose the starch generated by photosynthesis, and provide energy for the rabbit, but I have not yet. carry out relevant experiments.”

　　hiss!

　　Hearing Lu Li's words, both Professor Tian and Professor Xu were speechless in shock.

　　Because from the current point of view, the parasitic chloroplast researched by Lu Li is already a fairly mature product. As long as there is no safety issue, it can be used directly on rabbits.

　　If you modify the genes of the parasitic chloroplast, it may be able to parasitize in human epidermal cells, allowing humans to perform photosynthesis.

　　This means that the rules of nature that have been passed down for hundreds of millions of years are broken!

　　This is an epoch-making step!

　　Its significance goes far beyond conquering AIDS!

　　because.

　　This may open the way for human evolution!

　　Professor Xu took a deep breath, patted Lu Li on the shoulder, and said with emotion, "Lu Li, I found that I still underestimated your talent."

　　Professor Tian was also full of emotion, thinking that when Professor Xu found him and asked him to point out Lu Li, he directly agreed out of the thought of helping the younger generation. At that time, he only regarded Lu Li as a young man with a little talent.

　　As a result, Lu Li conquered AIDS not long after, and in his mind, Lu Li became a genius comparable to Newton and Einstein.

　　But now, he thinks Lu Li's achievements are likely to surpass that of Newton and Einstein.

　　Because Lu Li is very likely to open the way of human evolution, this is an unimaginable achievement, and its significance is no less than the evolution of intelligent apes into humans!

　　"The world is about to boil again."

　　Professor Tian sighed, picked up his mobile phone, and called Director Wu of the Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences: "Old Wu, something big happened again!"

　　On the other side of the phone, Director Wu asked, "What's the matter?"

　　"Lu Li has completed a new project. He modified the chloroplasts and allowed them to parasitize the rabbit cells, so that the rabbits can perform photosynthesis, and the effect is very good. No adverse reactions have been found for the time being."

　　"What!" Director Wu was stunned for a moment before asking, "Am I right? Are you saying that Lu Li has bred a rabbit capable of photosynthesis?"

　　"You heard right, Xu Zhongchen and I are in Lu Li's laboratory, and the two rabbits are right in front of us."

　　hiss!

　　Director Wu took a deep breath and quickly said, "Tell Lu Li to let him wait for me in the laboratory, and I will come right away."

　　Done.

　　Director Wu hung up the phone, put on his clothes, and went out while making calls frantically.

　　"Old Zhou! Hurry up and go to Lu Li's laboratory. Lu Li has bred a rabbit capable of photosynthesis."

　　"Lao Ye..."

　　"Old King..."

　　As the calls were made, the old academicians of the Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences all went out ecstatically.

　　They are going to witness the miracle with their own eyes!

Chapter 54

　　Tsingtao University, the freshman party has ended. However, most of the people who attended this freshman party were only impressed by Lu Li's speeches. The voice still echoed in their ears.

　　Even now, the party is over, and many people are still recalling Lu Li's speech.

　　Our generation!

　　Just these few words made their hearts and blood boil.

　　at this time.

　　Near Lu Li's laboratory, two freshmen who attended the party were talking excitedly.

　　"Hey, how did we get here? If I remember correctly, Lu Li's laboratory is here, right?"

　　"That's right, this is Lu Li's laboratory, where animal experiments on HIV are conducted. Having said that, Lu Li is really strong. In just one summer vacation, he has developed single-base gene technology and AIDS specific drugs. , and biological gene lock technology, this kind of research and development speed is unprecedented, and it is estimated that there will be no newcomers in the future. Therefore, even if Lu Li said that he wants to become the world's high-end biotechnology leader, no one will ridicule him because he has this qualification. Say."

　　"If only we had half of Lu Li's talent, even a quarter of it."

　　at this time.

　　They heard rapid footsteps.

　　Turn around and look.

　　It was found that a group of old men and women were running towards Lu Li's laboratory as if the wind was blowing under their feet.

　　"They seem to be going to Lu Li's laboratory..."

　　A boy was talking, his eyes widened suddenly, and exclaimed: "I recognized them, that is Professor Tian Zhixing, that is Director Wu Hongyan of the Institute of Biology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the others should all be academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. , On the day that Lu Li conquered AIDS, they came to this laboratory collectively, and they were photographed and uploaded to the Internet. Now these people have come to Lu Li's laboratory collectively, and they look anxious, don't you think? ... Lu Li has another amazing research result?"

　　Another boy took a deep breath: "This... this is unlikely, right? It hasn't been long since Lu Li conquered AIDS."

　　"Don't look at Lu Li with the eyes of ordinary people. For him, it may be normal to have a new research result in two or three weeks. Forget it. Tell everyone the good news."

　　"Yes, yes, take a picture first."

　　They quickly took out their mobile phones, took a few photos, and then watched the group of old men and women enter the laboratory.

　　……

　　dong dong dong.

　　There was a knock on the laboratory door.

　　Immediately afterwards, Director Wu and others swarmed in.

　　"Lu Li, where is the rabbit?"

　　As soon as Director Wu walked in, he couldn't wait to ask questions, and then glanced around in the laboratory. After finding two green rabbits, he ran to the rabbits like the wind under his feet, and said excitedly: "This is those two rabbits. A rabbit that can only perform photosynthesis, it's so beautiful."

　　Well, in the eyes of scientists, the more technologically advanced things are, the more beautiful they are.

　　The other academicians also ran over quickly, staring intently at the two green rabbits.

　　"Lu Li, how did you achieve it?"

　　Director Wu took the green rabbit out of the cage, touched the green rabbit's head, and asked curiously.

　　"I used single-base gene editing technology to modify the chloroplast inside the pine cell, making it a parasitic chloroplast, which can directly enter the epidermal cells of rabbits and perform photosynthesis."

　　Lu Li explained.

　　"If you want to continue to modify the parasitic chloroplast so that it can directly enter human epidermal cells, are you sure?"

　　Director Wu asked.

　　"It's not a big problem."

　　Lu Qingshan said with a relaxed expression, he has already experimented with his own cells, but he can't say it.

　　"Sure enough!" Director Wu's eyes were full of shock, "The door to human evolution is about to be opened by you!"

　　Other academicians were also extremely shocked.

　　Human evolution!