Super Dimension Technology Era

New Era Year 5, November 1st.

A Kunpeng-class transport ship was towed into the port of the Ice and Fire Satellite City. The transport ship was composed of 100 senior researchers dispatched from Blue Star.

These people are all senior researchers in the field of biomedicine. The leader of the scientific research team is Huang Fan. Jiang Zhiren, who previously studied the "Yinghuo virus" on Mars, also came here.

In a hurry, Huang Fan quickly led the research team to land on Ice Mars.

In the Hulk Observation Station, Pang Panghai and Honda Masami also rushed back after receiving the notice.

At this time, the Hulk Observation Station was more than four times larger than before, adding areas such as advanced biochemical laboratories, cloning factories, and researcher living areas. In addition, the spaceport was also expanded three times.

Pang Panghai reached out and said, "Welcome to Ice Mars, Researcher Huang."

After the two shook hands, Huang Fan asked impatiently: "Where is that kind of fruit?"

"Researcher Huang, please come with me."

A group of people entered the biochemical laboratory, and Pang Panghai took out 5 fruits from the storage box. These 5 fruits are the source fruits of the source tree.

The outer skin of the fruit looks like a large purple passion fruit, with a slightly spicy taste similar to garlic, while the internal structure of the fruit is like a peach, but the flesh is dark purple and has a core the size of an ordinary walnut.

He activated the genetic armor, covered his hand with a layer of glue-like Huang Fan, and took a source fruit gently.

Put the source fruit into the atomic scanner, and immediately the conditions inside the source fruit are displayed layer by layer.

Huang Fan, who had read the papers of Pang Panghai and Honda Masami, knew that the special substance that could inhibit the shortening of chromosome telomeres was in the pulp of Yuanguo. This substance was called the "essence of life."

Huang Fan looked at the scan data and asked, "Researcher Pang, have you ever done any in vivo experiments?"

"I've only done living things on ice Mars." Pang Panghai didn't hide anything.

Huang Fan turned his head and ordered: "Naoto, let the cloning factory produce some mice and chimpanzees, and let's test the effect of the source of life on the Blue Star creatures."

"No problem." Jiang Naoren nodded, and then went to arrange the cloning of mice and chimpanzees.

Huang Fan, who was in the laboratory, continued to learn some details.

The source tree is only distributed in the tropical polar regions of the northern hemisphere of icy Mars. Specifically, this tree exists on only three islands.

These three islands are actually one island. According to Xiao Jinse's ice-Mars geological model, the sea level in the Atami waters two hundred years ago was not as high as it is now.

The continental shelves between Yongri Island, Crab Island and Wei Island are connected together.

A total of 3,775 source trees were discovered in the three islands. By studying the age of the source trees, it can be found that this kind of tree is generally very long-lived. One of the source trees has reached 35,000 blue star years.

However, Huang Fan soon frowned, and he asked Pang Panghai: "Dahai, do you say that the living environment of Yuanshu has been affected by climate change?"

"Yes." Pang Panghai shared a paper with the other party.

This is a comprehensive research result based on their research on the living environment of the source tree, climate change on ice Mars, X-transgenic microorganisms, and analysis of the paleontological fossils and humus layers of Yongri Island.

Atmospheric oxygen levels are affecting source trees, and in a negative way.

"If the oxygen content in the atmosphere of Ice Mars increases by another 2 percentage points, the life source content of the fruit of the source tree will decrease by 40 to 50%."

Huang Fan said seriously: "It seems that we must protect the origin of the source tree as soon as possible and find ways to breed more source trees."

"We have been doing work in this area. As long as some X genetically modified microorganisms are eliminated, we can suppress the continued rise in oxygen content in the atmosphere of icy Mars." Pang Panghai replied.

"It turns out that you have been prepared for it, so I'm relieved."

After studying for most of the day, Jiang finally brought over 100 cloned mice and 10 cloned chimpanzees.

Moreover, the careful Jiang Zhiren specially divided the mice and chimpanzees into three age groups, including childhood, adulthood and old age.

As soon as the experimental animals arrived, Huang Fan couldn't wait to start testing the experiment.

Extract the internal life essence from the 5 source fruits.

It was then divided into different doses and injected into the bodies of mice and chimpanzees.

The atomic scanner was always on. In the atomic scan screen, with the injection of life essence, the surface of the mice and chimpanzees did not change much.

But at the chromosomal level, mutations are occurring.

The source of life adds a section of blank telomeres near the telomeres of chromosomes. Huang Fan zoomed in on these new "blank telomeres" and found that they were a variant of the source of life, a new change that occurred after contact with chromosomes.

"Hai Dahai, are your experiments on ice Martian creatures also in this state?"

Pang Panghai nodded: "That's it."

The cells were stimulated to accelerate by pressing, and the mice soaked in the special solution seemed to be peeling off.

In less than 15 minutes, the cells in the mouse's body will divide five times, and these mice will show varying degrees of changes.

This is due to the influence of the dose of injected life essence. Only when the life essence is combined with the chromosomes of all cells, the body of the mouse will not age after cell division.

Mice with insufficient doses showed signs of aging in some organs and parts, but not in others.

The experiment continues.

On the other hand, the Ice Mars X genetically modified microorganism removal plan applied by the Ice and Fire Satellite City to the Supreme Will of Blue Star was approved by the Supreme Will.

Ren Yingwu was assigned to implement the "Screen Plan". They will eradicate the four X genetically modified microorganisms removed from the icy Mars within the next three months.

This will curb the continued rise in atmospheric oxygen content and allow the ice Martian ecology to maintain its status quo. As for restoring the previous ecology, there is no need.

Because after more than two hundred years of ecological transformation by the Nibelungs, the ecological environment of Ice Mars has already changed. If it suddenly returns to the previous ecology, a large number of animals and plants may have difficulty adapting and become extinct.

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8 days later.

Huang Fan already understood the purpose of the life essence. The principle of life essence extending the life of living things is to use "pseudo telomeres" to replace the "true telomeres" to be consumed, which is a form of plum instead of tao.

This means that the effect of the essence of life is not permanent, but is time-sensitive.

Once the "pseudotelomeres" formed by the source of life are exhausted, either the source of life is re-injected, or the telomeres of the chromosomes are consumed.

"After a one-time injection, the pseudotelomeres formed by the source of life can withstand 12 divisions, which is equivalent to extending life by about 31.2 years." After Huang Fan finished speaking, he looked at another report in front of him.

"Research on Drug Resistance of the Essence of Life" lists the situation after multiple injections of the essence of life.

The first injection can withstand 12 cell divisions; the second injection can withstand 11 cell divisions.

By analogy, by the twelfth injection, the life essence can only withstand one cell division.

If a person is injected with the source of life twelve times, he will receive a total of 78 additional non-destructive cell divisions. 78 cell divisions is a life span of 202.8 years.

The emergence of drug resistance was something Huang Fan expected.

If the source of life has no drug resistance and can be used all the time, wouldn't it mean that it can be immortal in disguise? The rules of the universe will not allow life to be immortal.

Huang Fan also discovered another substance during his research.

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