Chapter 1045 Sanctions on Johnson

Chapter 1045 Sanctions on Johnson~

On the moon, in the experimental cabin of the Yuehuatai Research Base.

Standing in front of the electron microscope observatory, Professor Scott Sean from the Planck Institute of Microbiology observed the experiment in his hands with heavy dark circles under his eyes.

Under the electron microscope, the A-type Mars bacteria in the slices used for the mixed inhibition experiment quickly stopped their activities after swallowing the reverse inhibition expression protein provided by the Chinese staff, and then gradually died.

"Incredible, someone found a way to treat the infection of A-type Mars bacteria so quickly."

In the laboratory, after seeing the experimental results, Professor Scott Sean muttered in disbelief.

On the side, Professor Hicks Gilbert from the Institute of Biology of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences echoed.

"What's even more incredible is that they found a way to directly kill this kind of Mars bacteria. This is simply too unbelievable."

Although it was revealed nearly three months ago that four Chinese astronauts were infected with microorganisms from Mars, in fact, it has only been a month since researchers from various countries officially started research on this kind of bacteria.

Especially when it comes to bacterial infections, the detection equipment and related experimental devices on the Hanhai space shuttle can't provide much information for in-depth research.

For human medical technology, every bacterial and viral infection requires a lot of live experiments, genetic experiments, medical experiments and other means to be constantly dialectically confirmed before a solution can be found.

This time can be as short as three or four months, or as long as several years.

What surprised him even more was that the reverse inhibition expression protein that the Chinese gave him to study actually worked from the perspective of killing Class A Mars bacteria.

For current human medical technology, this is definitely a "foreigner".

Because normally, drugs against viral infections usually inhibit the reproduction of viruses through various means and assist the human immune system to eliminate viruses in the body.

For example, ganciclovir tablets and valacyclovir hydrochloride tablets, which can be used to treat diseases such as herpes zoster and chickenpox, achieve therapeutic effects by inhibiting the replication of herpes viruses after entering the human body.

There are also ribavirin tablets for viral pneumonia and bronchitis caused by respiratory syncytial virus, which also achieves treatment through viral proteins and inhibiting the growth and mode of the virus, thereby inhibiting the reproduction of the virus.

There are drugs that directly kill viruses, but the number of drugs with more extensive inhibition methods is very scarce.

Because the difficulty of research and development is very high.

As a member of the Royal Academy of Sciences who has participated in the selection of the Nobel Prize in Biology and Medicine, Professor Hicks Gilbert knows the difference between the two too well.

Inhibiting the reproduction and survival of viruses can be achieved through broad-spectrum antiviral drugs and protease inhibitors, while inhibiting the activity of the virus surface can be achieved through neuraminidase inhibitors.

However, to directly kill each virus, it is necessary to fully understand the virus and find drugs that specifically destroy its active structure or genetic genes.

Compared with more extensive inhibition or inactivation of the virus, the difficulty of the latter can be said to be more than an order of magnitude higher.

Because the former is relatively universal from a medical perspective, that is, as long as the genetic genes and structure of the virus are determined and the proteins or amino acids required for its replication are understood, the corresponding universal drugs can be quickly found through past experience.

Killing is a completely different concept.

The gap between the two is like that between prokaryotes and eukaryotes.

And those Chinese people were able to find drugs to kill Class A Mars bacteria in just one month, which is simply too unbelievable.

This simply overturned his understanding of bacteria, viruses and the medical community.

At the same time, on the other side, on Earth.

In Jinling, Xinghai Research Institute, Xu Chuan's office, a crisp knocking sound came from the half-covered door.

Behind the desk, Xu Chuan's eyes fell on the document in his hand, and he casually responded to come in.

With a report document, Zheng Hai walked in, and while quickly and briefly reporting, he handed over the document in his hand.

"Professor, the leak of Class A Mars bacteria at the Yuehuatai Research Base that you asked me to investigate has already yielded results."

"We can confirm that it was a member of the Johnson & Johnson Group's board of directors, a man named Dryden Porter, who arranged all this behind the scenes."

"He used the Johnson & Johnson Group and the influence of the Wood family behind it to send Constance Minik, a professor of exobiology at Georgia Institute of Technology in the United States, to the International Mars Life Research Project, and eventually used deliberate artificial infection to steal and leak Class A Mars bacteria."

"In addition, through NASA's restart of the space shuttle Perseverance and SpaceX's lunar module, he sent people to the Aitken Basin at the South Pole of the Moon to dock with Constance Minik."

After taking the investigation report from Zheng Hai, Xu Chuan flipped through it, frowned slightly and asked, "That is, according to your investigation, Class A Mars bacteria have indeed been transported to Earth?"

Zheng Hai nodded and said, "Well, Dryden Porter invested in the Hopkins Life Research Institute two years ago and restarted the institute's restart cryo-hibernation technology."

"This technology is currently in the charge of Professor Carl Wilfred of Johns Hopkins University."

"Through our investigation of the institute, we have confirmed that the institute has a Level 4 biosafety laboratory and started a secret research project called 'Sleeping Beauty' a month ago."

"The confidentiality level of this project is very high, and only Professor Carl Wilfred knows the specific information in the Hopkins Life Research Institute."

"But through the attack on an assistant of Professor Carl Wilfred, we learned that Professor Carl Wilfred received a mysterious research object nearly a month ago. From some experimental data revealed by the other party, the research object is a microbial bacterium, and it is highly similar to Class A Mars bacteria."

Xu Chuan nodded, frowned and asked, "I have another question."

"In theory, even if there is an infection leak at the Yuehuatai Research Base, it should only be a matter of the internal base, and there should not be a problem of Class A Mars bacteria being stolen and transferred to the earth."

"I want to know what happened on the moon that caused such a big leak."

The Yuehuatai Research Base was proposed by him and applied to the higher authorities for approval.

In the past few years, there has never been a major accident like this one, and the security has always been very good. However, even so, the problem of the theft and leakage of Martian bacteria still occurred, which really puzzled him.

Hearing this question, Zheng Hai sighed and said: "Strictly speaking, this is the dereliction of duty of the staff of the Yuehuatai Research Base."

After a pause, he continued to explain: "Although the Yuehuatai Research Base is equipped with a security work team and related monitoring equipment, due to the long distance and the fact that there are no bases of other countries on the moon, there has never been a security-related threat."

"In short, due to the accumulation of various factors, the security team drawn from the Xiashu Space Base was not so strictly trained, and gradually slacked off after two years of stability."

"So that when Constance Minik used the lunar rover to leave the edge of the base, the team responsible for security that day was too lax, and when they found out, the other party had already left the monitoring range."

"The Space Administration has contacted the National Security Bureau and controlled the security team on duty that day, waiting for the investigation and trial after the infection is over."

After a slight pause, Zheng Hai looked at Xu Chuan and built "Considering the safety issue, I suggest that the security work of Yuehuatai Research Base, Lunar Biosphere Project and other projects should no longer be transferred from the Xiashu Aerospace Base to the ordinary security team, but should be directly handled by the Confidentiality Department."

"In addition, the security team needs to be rotated regularly to prevent related accidents from happening again."

Xu Chuan nodded and said, "Okay, you will handle this matter."

"Well, I will contact the people from the National Security and Confidentiality Department to handle this matter."

Zheng Hai nodded and continued, "In addition, the Ministry of Commerce is arranging sanctions against Johnson Group and related companies under the name of the Wood family as a counterattack against the other party's theft of scientific research at the Yuehuatai base."

"Including finding companies in China to replace Johnson Group products, prohibiting these companies from engaging in import and export activities related to us, making new investments in our country, and prohibiting their senior management from entering the country, etc."

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"According to the plan of the Ministry of Commerce, this counterattack will cause the other party to lose at least more than 100 billion market share. This is the first lesson, and it is not ruled out that there will be more counterattacks in the future."

On the other side, the United States.

Wall Street, for the elites working here, the morning should be spent leisurely with coffee in hand, but today, they are not so wonderful.

Nothing else, all the busyness today comes from an announcement from the Ministry of Commerce of China.

In an office in a certain building, holding a newspaper in his hand, drinking coffee leisurely, watching his colleagues in the fields of medical care, nursing, and medical equipment busy, Kofi Heyman, a gold zone trader, couldn't help shaking his head and sighed.

"By the way, what did Johnson & Johnson Group do? It actually caused the other country to impose such severe sanctions on them?"

In his hand, it was a newspaper from the United States "Business Weekly", which is the publication most familiar with the business and economic situation of the United States, and often publishes some information on the business and economic activities of the United States.

And on the front page of this newspaper, there was an announcement from China lying there in large and bold.

".In order to safeguard the country, according to the working mechanism of the unreliable entity list, in accordance with the relevant provisions of Article 2, Article 8 and Article 10 of the "Regulations on the Unreliable Entity List" and relevant laws, it is decided to include Johnson & Johnson Group, Janssen Pharmaceuticals of Belgium and other companies in the unreliable entity list, and take the following measures:"

"1. Prohibit the above-mentioned companies from engaging in import and export activities related to China;

"2. Prohibit the above-mentioned companies from making new investments in China;

"3. Prohibit the entry of senior managers of the above-mentioned companies;

"4. Do not approve and cancel the senior managers of the above-mentioned companies in"

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Sitting aside, colleague Tommy Jais shrugged and said, "I don't know, maybe China has lost its mind?"

After a short pause, his eyes fell on the newspaper in his hand, and he continued: "And to be honest, this force, wow. Even Lockheed Martin has never had it."

It has to be said that today's announcement really confused everyone.

Not targeting military industrial groups or high-tech companies, but targeting a medical and health care products and consumer care products company?

This approach, even if it is placed in the whole world, is unique to Scorpio.

What's more puzzling is that from this announcement, China is probably completely serious this time.

This force, some people believe that they want to kill Johnson & Johnson with one stick.

So much so that after the announcement came out, all the companies on this unreliable entity list reacted to the stock market with a cliff-like drop, a bright red.

I don't know what this company did.

At the same time, on the other side.

In the manor of the Wood family in Chicago, Dryden Porter, who holds the shares and the right to speak of Johnson & Johnson, is furious.

The vases and various antiques in the room were broken all over the floor. In the corner, the personal assistant who reported the news was standing by with his head down and trembling, at a loss.

As the world's largest market today, China is of self-evident importance to Johnson & Johnson.

Apart from other things, just from the financial report data in 2024, Johnson & Johnson's revenue of 95 billion US dollars, of which more than 18 billion US dollars came from China, accounting for nearly one-fifth of the market share.

In particular, innovative pharmaceutical products, covering blood, immunity, solid tumors, infectious diseases and other fields, are the key core areas of revenue.

After all, China is a superpower with a population of more than 1.4 billion, and the annual purchase of various drugs is an astronomical figure.

If Johnson Group loses the huge market of China, then this will undoubtedly be the beginning of their rapid decline.

Let alone keeping the title of the world's largest medical and health care products and consumer care products company, they may not even be able to keep their position as one of the world's top 100 companies.

After all, China today has too much influence on the world.

Their every move may have a more severe impact on the global economy than the United States in the early 21st century.

If Johnson & Johnson cannot solve this problem, the investors and consumers who supported them in the past will ruthlessly abandon them, or even step on them.