I earn really hard money

Chapter 169 The Rhapsody of a Layman
Zhou Shiyu looked back at her grandfather, and said happily, "Grandpa, I'm going out for a while."

"Boy named He, who is it?"

The old man asked while fiddling with chess.

"Oh, grandpa, the health care doctor also said that your ears are not good. I think you are almost catching up with the military radar!"

Zhou Shiyu laughed and joked, feeling much better than before.

"Haha, grandpa doesn't care who this kid named He is, anyway, he made my Xiaoyu happy, go ahead, ask Xiao Zhou to drive you off. I'm going to bed..."

"I'll take you home."

Zhou Shiyu saw her grandpa standing up, so she hurried over to meddle with him.

"My body is still very strong, don't take care of me like a disabled person, I don't need to be supported, I will walk by myself!"

The old man wants to be strong all his life, and he enjoys the care of his granddaughter, but he does not accept help.

Zhou Shiyu watched her grandpa return to the room, told Aunt Song a few words, then called Xiao Zhou to prepare the car, and she went back to the room to get important materials and notebooks.

When he walked to the garage and was about to get in the car, the courtyard door of the villa opened, and Alpha drove in.

"Sister? Where are you going so late at night?"

Zhou Shiliu got off the car and looked at Zhou Shiyu strangely, the elder sister hardly ever went out at night.

Zhou Shiyu rubbed Zhou Shiliu's head with a smile, and said with a smile, "You have a conscience and know how to help me."

Zhou Shiliu blinked his doubtful eyes and asked, "What did you help me with?"

She was confused all of a sudden, and she even wondered if she had accidentally agreed to borrow Zhou Shiyu's money. After careful thought and reconfirmation, she never let go!

"He Xia called just now and said that you told him about the experiment. He was interested and asked me to talk. I hope there is a possibility of cooperation!"

"Ah? No way!"

Zhou Shiliu's face showed surprise and his tone was tough.

"Why? Do you have any valid reason?" Zhou Shiyu asked with a frown.

Zhou Shiliu knew that her elder sister seemed weak, but in fact it was difficult to change the things she decided in her heart, and she changed her tone when she was soft and not hard.

"Sister, don't go at night, how about I go with you tomorrow, tomorrow daytime. You don't know He Xia, he is very dishonest, he has several girlfriends, and a playboy!"

He Xia, who was driving to the company, suddenly felt a pain in the face, for no reason, it was strange.

"What does He Xia's dishonest girlfriends have to do with me... I discussed the experiment with him, not falling in love with him. Professor Smith also has two mistresses, but will this affect his scientific research?"

Zhou Shiyu asked in puzzlement.

Zhou Shiliu raised her forehead, and she found that she and Zhou Shiyu had a big difference in the three views.

"All right, all right, anyway, you are on guard against him, I don't want him to be my brother-in-law!"

"Crazy..."

Zhou Shiyu poked Zhou Shiliu's head!
"I'm still worried, I want to go with you."

Zhou Shiliu said very seriously.

Zhou Shiyu frowned slightly, and said: "I don't want you to follow, you will make trouble, go back quickly, the beautiful country's stock market is about to open!"

Zhou Shiliu glanced at the time, it was [-]:[-], it was indeed about to open.

During summer time from March to November every year, the opening time of the beautiful country stock market is from 09:30 in the evening to [-]:[-] in the morning...

"He Xia told you anything about love and love, don't pick up on it, you know?"

Zhou Shiliu urged again.

"Ouch, you are more verbose than our mother... let's go!"

After all, Zhou Shiyu got into the Lexus LX570 and left the villa.

Zhou Shiliu stood at the door of the villa and watched the car go away, took out his mobile phone and called He Xia.

"Hey, how did you get my sister's phone..."

He Xia was driving towards the company, and was very happy to hear Zhou Shiliu's questioning in a gloomy tone, and said with a smile: "The immortal has his own tricks, you can climb with peace of mind."

"Great gift crab!" Zhou Shiliu was almost furious, which completely kicked her out of the middleman!

"My surname is He, I warn you, you are not allowed to mess with my sister at night, do you hear me!"

He Xia sighed, and said, "Gang Dan, I really just want to talk to your sister about the experiment, don't think too much about it, brother is upright."

"Ha, if you are upright, there will be no evil in this world... Wait a minute, what are you calling me?"

Zhou Shiliu hadn't reacted before, but later found out that He Xia called her something wrong.

"Driving, goodbye!"

He Xia hung up the phone quickly.

Zhou Shiliu stood at the door of the villa with his mobile phone in doubt, muttering: "Kang Tan? Gang Lan? That's not my English name, what is he talking about..."

At night in the capital, youth is burning in every office building, and Hengfang International Building is no exception. There are lights in many windows, and people can be seen shaking from time to time.

However, Xia Tian Culture and Entertainment Company has no one left.

The audition was going on as scheduled, and the workload of the employees in the company was not heavy. Even if they had to work overtime occasionally, it wouldn't be too long, and they were all gone by seven o'clock.

He Xia first went to the company to light up the lights, turned on the central air conditioner, and then took two cans of carbonated drinks from the refrigerator. After he finished his work, he saw two people walking out of the elevator through the glass door.

Zhou Shiyu, who was walking in front, was dressed in a very Mori girl style, with a loose linen T-shirt and a long skirt, and she was carrying a briefcase in her hand, which should contain a laptop and a set of documents due to its size.

She was followed by a burly man with a straight figure, like a bodyguard or something.

"Dr. Zhou."

He Xia opened the door and signaled to come in for a chat.

Zhou Shiyu whispered a few words to the man beside him, and then walked into the company alone.

"It turned out that Mr. He also ran a cultural and entertainment company with a wide range of interests."

Zhou Shiyu stood at the front desk, looked around, and said with a smile.

He Xia raised his hand and motioned to take Zhou Shiyu to sit on the sofa in the boss's office. He said, "You should call me He Xia, too formal a title sounds strange."

Zhou Shiyu put the laptop on the coffee table, nodded and said, "Then you can call me by my name too... Well, shall we start?"

He Xia looked at Zhou Shiyu's slightly fiery eyes, coupled with the strange words, her heart trembled inexplicably, but she suppressed her emotions in an instant.

"Well, okay, I heard from Zhou Shiliu that you are exploring gene sequence and gene editing, can you introduce the current situation?"

"OK!"

Zhou Shiyu sat next to He Xia and turned on the laptop, and while fetching information, said: "I don't know how much you know about this knowledge, if you have any questions that you don't understand, just ask directly, first of all..."

Zhou Shiyu immediately entered the state, and began to explain He Xia's current experimental projects in Smith's laboratory, from basic theory to practice, from initial ideas to future goals, from protein structure to nuclease...

A bunch of obscure technical terms popped out of Zhou Shiyu's mouth, some of which couldn't even be expressed in Chinese, and the pronunciation of specialized words in professional fields was confusing...

He Xia tried to make herself listen carefully, but unfortunately it was really too difficult.

He understood all the English words on the pictures that flashed on the computer screen, but after forming sentences, he didn't understand the meaning at all, and then he became sleepy.

"yawn……"

"stabilizes the alpha helix in the motif and allows the exposed side chains of the alpha helix to protrude into the DNA..."

"I'm sorry..." He Xia couldn't help but yawned, which made Zhou Shiyu, who was talking vigorously, stop abruptly.

She smiled awkwardly, took a sip of the drink, and said, "It seems that I can't blame those students, it turns out that I tend to make people sleepy in class..."

"Experiments have proved that the brain will feel sleepy when it receives incomprehensible information. I'm sorry, I really don't understand what you just said..."

He Xia explained with a smile, and continued: "Why don't we talk about the theoretical support first, and just talk about the results of the experimental project?"

Investors don't need to know too detailed theoretical knowledge, they only need to know a general idea, and then know when it can be realized, when it can be maturely used, and when it can be cashed out!
"Currently, we have bred mice that are immune to some cancers by modifying the genetic genes, and have stronger strength, agility, memory, and jumping ability than mice of the same kind, but the survival rate is only about 60.00%."

"For other diseases caused by gene defects, we can transplant the normal genes and replace the original defective genes to complete the treatment, but it is still the problem just now, and the reliability is not stable enough."

Zhou Shiyu said seriously.

"Then where is your gene sequencing now?"

He Xia asked.

Zhou Shiyu didn't expect He Xia to ask more professional questions, she shook her head slightly.

"Humans have about 30 to [-] genes, containing more than [-] billion DNA base pairs. Currently, Harvard's research on gene sequence detection is the most prominent, but it still cannot fully detect all base pairs."

"We only know about 90.00% of the base pair arrangement, and know the functions they are responsible for. The remaining [-]% has not yet been studied to clarify the specific impact and function... It's a pity."

"Only understand three percent?"

"That's right, there's still a long way to go..."

Zhou Shiyu has the courage to admit his shortcomings.

He Xia was a little excited and said: "Only understanding [-]% can cure gene defect diseases, reprogram genetic genes to make the offspring of mice immune to some cancers, and improve physical fitness."

"Then if you understand 5.00%, [-]%, [-]%, [-]%, what can you do then? I'm looking forward to it..."

What Zhou Shiyu saw was inadequacy, but He Xia felt that being able to use [-]% to do so many things is a very remarkable thing, and the prospect is simply too grand!
"Well, your direction of thinking is not wrong, but unfortunately things are not as optimistic as you think."

"Aren't you optimistic? Only by discovering the shortcomings can you understand the shortcomings, and only by understanding the shortcomings can you catch up. It's very optimistic!" He Xia's thinking is completely different from Zhou Shiyu's.

"Let me make an analogy and you will understand. For example, the base pair sequence is a foreign language, so let's treat it as English. We just learned hello, thank, one, two, three... we don't even understand the most basic grammar! "

"If you can complete the sequencing of the entire gene sequence, it is equivalent to having an English dictionary, and you can understand each word individually, but what does each word mean when it is put in a sentence, and will it have multiple meanings and usages? ,Do not know at all!"

"Probably such a concept! It takes quite large-scale experiments to truly understand genes."

The more you understand, the more you know the vastness of this science. The billions of base pairs are obviously something in your body, but whenever you face those mysterious spirochetes, Zhou Shiyu is full of enthusiasm and feels powerless at the same time. ...

He Xia didn't understand so much, but his attitude was very optimistic: "Is your laboratory still continuing research in this area?"

Zhou Shiyu nodded: "Although we lag behind Harvard, we are still working hard. Sequencing and gene editing experiments are proceeding simultaneously."

After hearing this, He Xia said with great interest: "Assuming that this technology is mature, it is possible to genetically edit mature human bodies, such as allowing humans to have abilities like Spiderman, or like Hulk..."

According to He Xia's idea, knowing that [-]% can be immune to diseases, then finding out the role of more base pairs, can't take off?
Zhou Shiyu thought for a while, and said: "In the early years, biohackers did experiments on gene fusion, and the results were not very satisfactory. Some were scary or even horrifying, at least not possible with the current level of technology."

"As for making humans have superpowers by modifying genes, it shouldn't be possible..."

"You can understand it this way. For example, a character in a video game has an upper limit for each ability. You can strengthen a certain aspect of ability through leveling, and even approach the upper limit, but it is impossible to fully reach the upper limit."

"And genetic programming is equivalent to a modifier, which can modify the attributes of game characters, but no matter how you modify them, the attributes of characters can only be the limit of the program at most, and cannot break through the upper limit set."

"The upper limit of the human body is the perfect genes. Once the genes reach the perfect state, people can not get sick, be strong, smart, have a long-term memory, have a long life, etc., but they have the power of elephants, the reaction of flies, and lighthouse jellyfish. lifespan, it's impossible."

"Gene programming is not gene fusion, let alone gene mutation, and the kind you mentioned is a controllable mutation... From my standpoint, it is not science for the time being, it is science fiction."

He Xia nodded seriously, then shook his head again.

"We don't even know where the upper limit is. I think it's better not to artificially set limits... In the eyes of people hundreds of years ago, isn't today's science and technology science fiction?"

"If you don't dare to think about it, how can you explore the unknown? Since you can program genes, why don't you dare to imagine creating super genes?"

"For example, if I want to have power, I want to implant a gene model group of the type of an elephant, I want to resist water pressure and dive to the bottom of the sea, and I want to implant a gene model group of various deep-sea fish, and so on..."

He Xia is purely a layman, but because of this, he dares to think about anything, regardless of whether it is based on a reasonable theory. In layman's terms, he is done!

Zhou Shiyu smiled politely and did not speak, because she felt that He Xia was talking about the Arabian Nights...

He Xia also feels that it is too early to talk about those. Now that mice have been genetically improved, and genetic defect diseases can be treated by transplanting normal genes, it is also a very good achievement.

"Your experiment is groundbreaking, why is there a shortage of funding?"

Zhou Shiyu made a helpless expression, and was about to speak when the phone rang, and it was his younger sister Zhou Shiliu calling.

"Excuse me……"

Zhou Shiyu got up and went to the window to answer the phone.

"Shiliu, what are you doing, I'm talking about something with He Xia!"

"Oh, that's good, it's all right."

After all, Zhou Shiliu hung up the phone directly, as long as he didn't go to the hotel...

"Crazy, exercise has ruined the brain..."

Zhou Shiyu looked at the phone speechless, walked back to the sofa and smiled embarrassedly, and continued the previous topic: "The mainstream scientific community does not recognize Professor Smith's theory, and the laboratory has not made further breakthroughs for a long time, and the college has lost patience."

"In addition to a series of rhetoric from politicians, I don't want to talk about it..."

Zhou Shiyu felt particularly depressed when she thought of the scene where Professor Smith enthusiastically presented the latest research and was criticized by all parties.

He Xia said thoughtfully: "There is no difference between now and hundreds of years ago. The birth of a new technology is still regarded as a heresy. In the final analysis, the progress is too slow, otherwise, with the urine of capital, it would have already protruded." olive branch."

Zhou Shiyu nodded, and did not deny this point. If their laboratory can produce mature experimental results, not to mention anything else, as long as they can safely treat diseases through genetic engineering technology, it will be enough for capital carnival!

It is a pity that there is still uncertainty at present. This is a risk that politicians cannot accept and are easy to be criticized.

In many cases, scientific development needs to break through not only technical barriers, but also other barriers, invisible barriers are sometimes more stubborn than technical barriers!
He Xia can think of what the mainstream academic circles and those politicians are thinking, and he has also thought of many things, but are those things really important?
"No obstacle can stop the development of science. The more important a technological breakthrough is, the more we should face it bravely. Learn to use superb means to control technology in setbacks. It is never technology that does evil, but people. The victims are always Not because you have the technology, but because you don't have the technology!"

Zhou Shiyu stared blankly at He Xia, her words made her so excited that her neck turned pink!

"I'm going to send what you just said to Professor Smith, he needs motivation very much now!"

After all, Zhou Shiyu really took out her mobile phone and started typing.

"The funds are cut off, what do you do now for your experiment?"

Seeing that Zhou Shiyu was busy, He Xia asked a very practical question.

Zhou Shiyu spread his hands and said: "Everyone is working hard to find funds, and there will be a way to continue!"

"What if there is no capital injection?" He Xia asked.

"If there is no capital injection, the experiment will not be able to be done, the team will fall apart, and everyone will work in their own way, or join a new experimental team, or teach in the academy..."

There was a sad look on Zhou Shiyu's face. This is the career her mentor has worked hard for all her life, and it is also the future world in her eyes. She has participated in it for several years, and it is very sad to die so young.

"OK, let's get to the point, how much money is needed to maintain the experiment?"

He Xia clapped his hands, he decided to invest in this experiment, but there are still important things to understand before investing.

From Zhou Shiyu's point of view, the two have already gotten to the point, but to He Xia, what he learned earlier is just a reference to whether it is worth investing in, and the real conversation has just begun!
The corners of Zhou Shiyu's mouth curled up slightly, and he looked at He Xia and said, "At present, maintaining the normal operation of the laboratory is about 600 million pounds per month, which is mainly used for various raw material purchases, equipment maintenance, labor salaries, etc."

　Judging from the information found, genetic engineering research is in full swing in some countries. A few years ago, the related projects invested by Li Chaoren won the Nobel Prize, which was related to genetic engineering.

　　There are rumors that it can prolong life, but only a few people know whether it is true or not.

　　The real situation does not prevent me from brainstorming in the novel, haha.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)