Chapter 1039 Mathematical Formula Hidden in Genes
At the same time, on the other side.
On the moon, 380,000 kilometers away, in the Yuehuatai scientific research outpost.
In the living cabin, sitting on a chair next to the porthole, with the latest batch of N99 masks and goggles sent by the Chinese staff, Professor Erwin Dennis from the Francis Crick Institute in the UK looked at the desolate silver-gray land outside the window, with deep sorrow and worry on his face.
The Class A Mars bacteria infection incident in the Yuehuatai scientific research base continues to spread.
Although the person in charge of the base has taken a series of measures at the first time, such as isolating the people who have been in close contact with the infected, and disinfecting the base in all aspects.
But in the face of this disaster, these measures can not play a big role.
From the first batch of seven researchers and five staff members who were infected, more than 30 researchers have shown symptoms of infection.
If the Chinese staff in the base are counted, the number of infected people has exceeded 50.
More than 100 top scholars from all over the world, the number of infected people has reached nearly one-third.
And no one knows how many people will be involved in this disaster.
"Alas~".
Staring at the land reflecting silver-gray light outside the window, Erwin Dennis sighed. He didn't know how long he could hold on, but he had a hunch that he might not be able to escape this disaster this time.
"Damn American!"
Erwin Dennis cursed after retracting his gaze.
If it weren't for that guy from the United States messing around, he would still be happily studying the Martian life he was interested in, instead of being scared all day long like now, afraid that he would be infected.
He now misses his days on Earth, although this time being able to participate in the study of Martian life is indeed something he has always longed for.
But no matter how much he longs for something, it is not as important as his own life, right?
Not every researcher or scholar has the courage to give up his life to seek the truth, at least he certainly can't do it.
"Are you still worried about infection?"
In the living cabin, Warren Kleist, another professor of microbiology from France, poked his head out and asked his roommate who was lying on the bed watching short videos.
"Aren't you worried?" Erwin Dennis asked with a worried face: "That's an unknown life form from Mars. It will not only infect people, but also turn people into monsters!"
"Look at the two astronauts from China. We can't tell whether they are still human or not."
Warren Kleist shrugged and said, "What's the use of worrying? What's coming will always come."
"As far as the current situation is concerned, everyone is on the same boat. If a devastating infection really occurs, no one can escape."
After a slight pause, he looked at the other party and continued, "China has done a good job in this regard. They isolated the infected and close contacts at the first time, and sent various emergency supplies at the first time."
"In my opinion, instead of worrying about whether you will be infected, it is better to seize the time to find a solution to the problem."
Hearing this, Erwin Dennis was silent. After a moment, he sighed and said, "Maybe what you said makes sense, but the problem is that we have no way to solve it now."
Hearing this, Professor Warren Kleist smiled and said, "My friend, relax a little. Although we have not found a solution to the infection, at least we have made a breakthrough, right?"
"We have analyzed the genetic structure of Class A Martian bacteria. From the current situation, it is likely that it was artificially created by the prehistoric Martian civilization or other intelligent civilizations."
"As long as we can analyze the 'carbon-silicon polymer genetic genes' in the twisted ring genetic structure, maybe we can find a solution to this problem."
Erwin Dennis breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Maybe, I hope, if everything goes so smoothly."
While chatting, a tablet temporarily installed in the living room lit up, and a hurried video call rang.
After hearing the voice, Warren Kleist got up from the bed and answered the call.
Across the tablet was a staff member of the Yuehuatai base, with a standard smile on his face, and he said:
"Professor Dennis, Professor Kleist, the latest analytical data on carbon silicon polymer genetics has come out. We have very little time left, and we need to find a solution to the problem of Class A Martian bacteria infection as soon as possible."
"The online video conference has been set up. The verification code is the last six digits of the two work numbers. The meeting will start on time in ten minutes. I hope the two professors can participate on time."
Since the outbreak of the Martian bacteria leakage infection incident at the Yuehuatai base due to Constance Minik, the relevant conference exchanges have been transferred from offline conference rooms to online, trying to avoid offline gatherings of people to prevent large-scale infection incidents.
After all, there are more than 100 scientific researchers and medical experts in the entire base, and nearly one-third of the people have been infected, which has affected the research on Martian bacteria.
If a large-scale infection incident breaks out again, I am afraid the entire base will be paralyzed.
After hearing the staff's message, the two people in the living cabin looked at each other, nodded and said, "I know, we will attend on time."
The analysis data of the carbon-silicon polymer genetic gene is related to whether they can successfully solve the problem of Martian bacterial infection.
From their current research on Class A Martian bacteria, the effects of this Martian bacteria on the human body are mainly divided into two aspects.
The first aspect is that the carbon-based information chain composed of hydrocarbon-derived materials in the twisted ring structure similar to the human DNA structure can infect humans and reproduce in human cells.
This is the main core of its ability to enter the human body and infect humans. Through the carbon-based twisted ring of the human DNA structure, Class A Martian bacteria can perfectly use the human organelles and cell enzymes to replicate themselves and generate structural proteins and other structural components.
As for the carbon-silicon polymer genetic gene in the twisted ring structure of Class A Martian bacteria, everyone believes that this is the key reason for the alienation of the infected person's body.
However, they don't know how this carbon-silicon polymer genetic gene works, and it is not clear whether it will affect human genetic genes and pass this mutation on to future generations.
After all, they have only been studying this kind of Martian life for a short time, and many clinical medicine and biological experiments that take longer to complete have not yet started or are still in progress without results.
Including infectious experiments such as using Class A Martian bacteria to infect mice, experimental rabbits, and rhesus monkeys. Even though these experimental animals are smaller than humans, the speed and manifestation of infection will be faster, but the time is still too short for the four astronauts.
It should be noted that it has been two months since the four astronauts on Mars came into contact with these Martian microorganisms.
In two months, even Liu Yang, who had the most serious symptoms of infection, has only shown preliminary symptoms and is still continuing to mutate.
It seems that the infection and mutation of this Martian bacteria on the human body is a long process, not a rapid outbreak of ordinary viruses.
So at present, even if the first batch of animals undergoing live infectious experiments show symptoms of infection, it will take some time to catch up with the progress of the four astronauts.
As for what these animals will look like in the future.
It has to be said that even though the crisis of Martian bacterial infection has invaded the entire lunar base, there are still many researchers who are very interested in it and keep observing and recording different experimental organisms every day.
In the video conference, after experts from various countries gathered, Professor Ke Jianhua, who presided over the meeting, briefly explained the current situation to researchers from various countries.
"There has been some progress in the research on Class A Mars bacteria. By analyzing its genetic genes, we have obtained complete genetic data and preliminarily determined its structure and reproduction method."
"But we still don't have a good solution to solve the problem of Class A Mars bacteria infecting humans and the mutations it causes."
"And the experimental data on Class A Mars bacteria and its genetic structure analysis have been distributed to you. Do you need me to give you ten minutes to review the results again?"
During the video conference, Liu Yangrong, a professor of bacterial virology from the National University of Singapore, said directly: "Skip it. We have already read the relevant reports as soon as possible. There is no need to waste time on this."
"The key now is to find a way to solve the infection problem and decipher the secrets of the carbon-silicon polymer genetic genes."
After speaking, Professor Scott Sean from the Planck Institute for Microbiology nodded and said: "There is indeed no need to waste time on reading reports."
After a short pause, he looked at the camera and continued: "We have been studying Class A Mars bacteria for some time. From the characteristics of various aspects, it is difficult for us to classify it into a single category of virus or bacteria."
"From its behavior after infecting the host, it is almost not much different from the virus. It does not have the sclerotium of fungal organisms and needs the nutrients of cells to reproduce."
"However, from the perspective of reproduction, it is very similar to yeast. It is the way the mother reproduces the offspring, rather than the self-replication of conventional viruses, and its lifespan is longer than that of viruses."
"Perhaps we need to classify it separately among the types of bacteria and viruses."
Professor Ke Jianhua nodded and said: "There is no rush for classification. We can discuss it later, and even propose to the Earth headquarters that whoever can solve the infection problem of this Mars bacteria will be able to obtain the right to name this bacteria."
Hearing the naming rights of Class A Mars bacteria, the scientific researchers and medical experts in the video conference room breathed a little faster.
For a scholar, nothing is more attractive than the discovery and naming of new species.
This is not only a challenging and innovative work, if they can successfully name a new species, it means that the relevant researchers have achieved important research results in the relevant field, which will not only be recognized by the world, but also go down in history.
Just like the Xu-Hodge theorem and the Xu-Navier-Stokes equation, it will be recorded in textbooks and in the history of civilization, becoming an eternal glory.
It must be said that when Professor Ke Jianhua offered the tempting reward of naming rights for Class A Mars bacteria, many scholars participating in the conference were indeed much more enthusiastic.
Professor Scott Sean, who had just proposed to reclassify Class A Mars bacteria, directly gave his opinion.
"From the perspective of reproduction, Class A Mars bacteria are very similar to the budding of yeast. Perhaps we can consider inhibiting the reproduction of Class A Mars bacteria by inhibiting the budding of yeast?"
Yeast is a very special kind of bacteria on Earth. It is a single-cell fungus that is widely present in nature and can survive and reproduce in various environments.
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A small bud will grow on the mature yeast cell. When the bud cell grows to a certain extent, it will separate from the mother cell and continue to grow to form a new individual.
And budding can be carried out in all directions of the mother cell, including multilateral budding, two-end budding and three-side budding.
Of course, in addition to this budding reproduction, yeast can also fission, that is, reproduce by cell transverse division.
And like mushrooms, they produce "asexual spores" and eject them to reproduce.
What's more special is the status of yeast among bacteria.
If we say that India's Ganges River breeds countless super bacteria, any one of them may cause serious infection and harm to humans.
Then, if we extract these bacteria and put them in front of yeast, we can only say that none of them can fight.
That's right!
Even for India, which abuses antibiotics extremely, the super pathogenic bacteria raised in their country are like an ordinary person facing the "Doom Soldier" from hell in front of yeast.
If it is in nature, the status of yeast is no exaggeration to say that it is a super soldier with "nuclear weapons".
It can first reproduce rapidly and consume a huge amount of oxygen, producing carbon dioxide, and the speed of oxygen consumption can blow steamed buns into dough in one night.
This process directly kills all fellow bacteria that need oxygen, which is a direct dimensionality reduction attack.
And if you think that there are still some anaerobic bacteria that can face it, then you can only say that you think too much and underestimate the big brother yeast.
Can you also survive anaerobically?
Good!
After the aerobic reproduction in the first stage, the yeast brother has a second stage, and it begins to perform anaerobic respiration.
Just like the boss who appears with majestic background music and undergoes a second transformation, it instantly becomes an indescribable monster with three heads and eight arms, violent and angry, with thunder in his eyes and fire in his butt.
If there are still bacteria that can resist the second stage of the yeast brother.
Don't worry, the big brother still has a big move of equality for all beings!
It can produce alcohol!
Maybe there are bacteria that can survive all the fighting methods honed in front of antibiotics such as penicillin, oxytetracycline, gentamicin, etc.
But in front of alcohol, all of these are in vain, because this thing is a direct protein denaturation, which is equivalent to cursed damage, real damage.
In the terminology of the game, it is called: 'Continuous percentage blood loss, and the damage cannot be interrupted, transferred, blocked, dodged, and even ignores damage reduction props.'
As long as you are made of protein, it is under his control. As long as the concentration is high, even eggs will be soaked into whiskey acid.
And if you want to inhibit or kill yeast, you can only use antifungal drugs or perform high-temperature sterilization.
The difficulty is great, and it is also because yeast does not normally cause infection to humans, otherwise it can directly overthrow human civilization.
After Professor Scott Sean made his opinion, Philip Felix, a medical expert from Canada, shook his head and said.
"It's useless. We have tried to use antifungal drugs to treat infected people, but Class A Mars bacteria are not fungi. It is more special than fungi. It hides in cells, which is a place that ordinary antifungal drugs are difficult to reach."
Compared with ordinary fungi, Class A Mars bacteria have the characteristics of viruses, which makes it difficult for ordinary antifungal drugs to have an effect on it.
If it is useful, they would have seen the effect on various experimental animals such as mice.
"I suggest continuing to delve into the field of gene editing. Haven't we found the carbon silicon polymer genetic gene that causes host mutation? Using gene editing technology is the most feasible way to solve it."
Someone in the video conference room said.
After hearing this suggestion, someone looked at Professor Ke Jianhua, who was presiding over the meeting, and said, "But with all due respect, the conditions for gene editing at the lunar base are really limited."
"If you want to find a solution faster, it's better to send the samples to Earth and use the more complete and detailed experimental facilities on Earth for research."
Hearing this, Professor Ke Jianhua directly rejected the proposal.
"Sending Class A Mars bacteria to Earth is a very dangerous and risky behavior. If it multiplies on Earth, it will cause fatal harm to our ecological environment."
After rejecting this suggestion that has been raised many times, he looked at the experts from Thermo Fisher and asked, "Professor Cassi, is there any progress in the analysis of the genetic gene fragments of carbon silicon polymers and the regular invalid genes?"
Thermo Fisher is a world-leading life science research company, ranking among the top five in the world in the fields of gene sequencing and molecular biology.
This time, the gene sequencing and analysis of Class A Mars bacteria was completed by their people.
Hearing Professor Ke Jianhua's question, Bruno Frank, with a full beard, shook his head and said, "The analysis of carbon-silicon polymer genetic genes is still in progress, but there is not much progress."
"And there is no progress in the analysis of that section of regular invalid genes. We can't find the secrets that may be hidden in it for the time being."
At the same time, when the Yuehuatai base was meeting to discuss the solution to the problem of Class A Mars bacteria.
On the other side, the earth.
In the deep night, a soft light was on in the villa at the foot of Zijin Mountain.
In the study, Xu Chuan stared at the data analyzed by the supercomputer with bright eyes, and his eyes revealed a look of "as expected".
"As expected, the conditions for unlocking the secret are not in the mathematical system, but hidden in physics!"
Staring at the data analyzed on the screen, he muttered to himself.
He has found the secret hidden in this section of invalid genes, or he has found the key to the secret. He only needs to wait for Xiao Ling to analyze all the gene codes according to his requirements, and then he can get the information inside!
After waiting quietly for a few minutes, Xiao Ling finally completed the analysis of this invalid gene according to his request with the help of the small supercomputer center at home.
"Master! Done (ov)ノ."
In the study, Xiao Ling's virtual voice sounded, Xu Chuan was shocked and quickly looked at the screen.
"Is this the measure equivalence formula of the Borel set construction?"
Looking at the image on the screen, he was stunned for a moment.
The analysis of the invalid gene of Class A Mars bacteria actually resulted in a mathematical construction problem?
This is simply unbelievable.