life copy game

Chapter 457 Cloning Organs

"artificial organ?"

He Ao stared at Coles in front of him, "Is it an animal...or..."

"Human organs," Coles took Hoo's words, "to be precise, they are human cloned organs,"

He glanced at He Ao and continued to explain,
"We all know that the human body develops from a single cell, a fertilized egg.

"Throughout the course of development, the fertilized egg continues to divide and multiply.

"The value-proliferated cells differentiate into different limbs and organs, for example, some differentiate into skin cells and kidney cells, and some differentiate into red blood cells and white blood cells.

"Through these differentiations to adapt to the environment, we finally constitute the complex structure of our present human body.

"Generally speaking, it is basically impossible for highly differentiated cells to turn into completely different cells with functional properties, such as skin cells directly turning into kidney cells is almost impossible.

"This is also a means for the body to maintain its own stability. Different cells have different highly specialized functions and cannot be switched casually. They form an organic whole and ultimately maintain the normal operation of the entire body.

"In contrast to this kind of differentiated cells that cannot continue to freely change their shape, we still have a kind of 'stem cells' that have not yet differentiated, or have a relatively low degree of differentiation, and can be differentiated into different cells again.

"For example, hematopoietic stem cells in our bone marrow can differentiate into red blood cells, white blood cells and platelets, and under certain conditions, hematopoietic stem cells can also differentiate into organ cells.

"The existence of stem cells allows us to 'repair' some patients' injured bodies to a certain extent. Of course, we can also do some 'more cutting-edge' things, such as 'cloning'."

Speaking of this, Coles glanced at He Ao again, as if he wanted to see if He Ao understood.

But soon he realized that he had made a mistake in teaching and educating people, and he actually began to explain the principle to He Ao in detail.

He shook his head, condensed his words, and continued,

"According to the order of differentiation potential from high to low, we divide stem cells into totipotent stem cells, pluripotent stem cells and unipotent stem cells.

"The hematopoietic stem cells we just mentioned are pluripotent stem cells. Of course, to meet the requirements of cloning, pluripotent stem cells are not enough, and totipotent stem cells are needed.

"As the name suggests, it is a stem cell that can differentiate into all human cells.

"Theoretically, if the somatic cells of the human body are induced back into pluripotent stem cells and then stimulated to differentiate, we have the opportunity to 'clone' a person."

"It seems that the development of this technology has encountered difficulties."

He Ao said calmly.

If the human cloning technology is successful, it will definitely be an explosive news. Even after many years, someone should mention it, but there is no relevant information in the combined memory of his multiple characters.

"The technology of inducing somatic cells back to pluripotent stem cells is now very mature, but at the point of inducing the differentiation of pluripotent stem cells in vitro, everyone is stumped."

Coles nodded and continued to explain,

"Currently, the academic community has not tried to 'cloning human beings'. The mainstream 'exploration' now is to clone organs, which can help treat many organ diseases, and there are no moral and ethical obstacles.

"But this step has been stuck by federal biologists for hundreds of years, and there are always some strange problems in the process of inducing totipotent stem cells into specific organs.

"For example, the grown 'organ' is not the shape of the organ at all, or has a specific 'organ' shape but does not have the function of the corresponding organ."

"And here, I need to mention a top-secret project that Qunxing Pharmaceutical had to stop 50 years ago. This project has not been declassified. I should not have access to this project,"

Coles said with a smile, "But my teacher was the last batch of researchers recruited in this project. When I was studying with him, I heard a few words about these projects by chance.

"Of course, I didn't pay attention to it at the time, until I joined the Mars Project, and after performing surgery at the Institute, I remembered this project that I had only heard some fragments of by chance.

"In those clips, Qunxing Pharmaceuticals seems to have achieved some kind of breakthrough in 'organ cloning', and even the project has progressed to the point of recruiting 'volunteers' for organ transplantation experiments.

"But my teacher has signed a non-disclosure agreement, he will not and cannot tell me the content of this project, but I followed the clues and found the family members of the 'volunteers' who participated in the project.

"Most of these volunteers come from poor families and cannot afford expensive medical expenses, so they come to volunteer. The confidentiality agreement is not necessary for them, so I easily inquired about the relevant content of the project."

Speaking of this, Coles' tone was a little emotional,

"First of all, I learned from the family members of these 'volunteers' that almost all the volunteers who participated in the 'experiment' died, and the longest-lived one did not exceed one year.

"I found some agreements signed by the volunteers and some of the conditions described by the volunteers' family members, which roughly restored the original incident.

"About 50 years ago, Qunxing Pharmaceuticals was very likely to induce the differentiation of organs with normal shape and normal function. This is an epoch-making achievement, and the group quickly advanced the project to human trials.

"But reality quickly poured cold water on the whole project.

"This induced organ is prone to failure, and its lifespan is much lower than that of a normal organ. After being transplanted into a patient, the patient can live a normal life for a few months at most before dying of rapid organ failure. Most patients can't live for a year. .

"The group should also have conducted research on this aspect, but they failed to solve this problem in the end, and the poor clinical effect forced the group to suspend the entire project.

"But the group is not abandoning the project entirely."

Having said that, Coles' meaning is already very clear.

Howard looked up at him, "So you think the 'Clone Organs' project and the Mars Project have merged together, and part of the results of the Mars Project has solved the problem of organ failure in the 'Clone Organs' project?"

But why does the Institute put cloned organs into the bodies of those 'volunteers'?
Obviously, those organs should not have been cloned for these volunteers.

At this time, He Ao's thoughts paused for a moment, and an idea came to his mind.

"I don't know how they solved this problem,"

Coles said slowly, "But they should have used the bodies of those 'patients', the silver metal box, and the medicines given to the 'patients', which should all contain some key influencing factors that I don't know. "

really,

He Ao looked out the window, one by one weak people were slowly walking towards the hospital with a huge mouth under the night.

The 'volunteers' recruited by the institute are actually 'living petri dishes'.

Judging from Coles' narrative, 'cultivating' those cloned organs in the body would take a toll on the body, and it would be a very life-threatening thing.

In other words, the high "volunteer subsidies" of the Institute are "life money" paid to those who participate in volunteering and lack money.

He Ao recalled the endless stream of people who came to participate in the 'research' when he entered the research institute for the first time in Pater's memory.

Like Pater, there are many people in this city who have lost their source of income due to unemployment, but still bear high loans and huge living pressure.

"As for the uses and sources of those cloned organs, I don't know. That's all I have access to. That's all I know."

Coles, who was sitting opposite, said hoarsely, saying so many words in a short period of time seemed to be a burden to his body, and he took a sip of milk slowly.

He Ao came back to his senses and continued to focus on Coles. This question and answer should be over.

He took out a transparent test tube filled with milky white liquid from his arms, which he got from 'Shadow'.

"Do you know this?"

he asked softly.

"This is the 'Life Potion',"

Coles took a closer look at the test tube, "This is a potion that can quickly restore vitality traded by the research institute. According to Reid, even people who are seriously injured and dying can quickly recover from their injuries after drinking this potion. This potion appears to be a by-product of Project Mars, but it doesn't extend life."

"There are many such potions in the research institute?"

How asked.

"Not much," Coles shook his head. "This kind of medicine is very rare, and it is basically in a state of no market. The research institute usually uses it to pay the rewards of some strong people, or go to the underground black market to barter."

"Is that so?"

He Ao glanced at the potion in his hand and put it away.

Judging from the wear and tear on the body of the 'Nightcrawler' talent sequence, this life potion should be very useful for 'Shadow', so he has been reluctant to use it, and only took it out before he died.

After the potion was completely put back, He Ao raised his head again and asked, "Where does the research institute usually hide this kind of 'life potion'?"

"It's in the 'safe' at the bottom of the institute," Coles replied slowly, then he paused and added, "All the data of the institute are also in that safe."

"Thank you for letting me know."

Howard smiled and stood up.

"fine."

Coles felt relieved and stood up quickly. He just wanted to get out of here quickly.

But soon, He Ao's next sentence made his heart ache again.

"I still have two small favors that I need your help with."

-

Under the night, the stars Zhimei Hospital is still brightly lit.

Even late at night, many departments in this hospital are still operating normally.

He Ao and Coles walked together, walking slowly on the road in front of Qunxingzhimei Hospital.

The narrow roads are crowded with all kinds of small vendors.

The densely packed stalls are scattered under the street lamps.

"Orange juice, sour, sweet and nutritious freshly squeezed orange juice."

There was a shout on the road ahead.

Some people who appeared to be relatives of patients in simple clothes were crowding around the booth, buying orange juice.

These orange juices are very cheap, and a large can costs less than 2 federal currency.

There are also several fresh oranges and a small juicer on the stand, which seems to indicate that the orange juice is squeezed out of fresh oranges.

But in fact, the stall owner never touched those oranges and the juicer, but kept pumping out orange orange juice from the vat on the side.

Customers also tacitly did not ask if the orange juice is freshly squeezed.

The fruits of the Commonwealth are natural fruits, and the price is very expensive. Generally, people buy one or two fruits.

Most of the vitamins needed by the human body and people's needs for fruits are met by purchasing blended fruit juices.

The nutritional content of these juices is almost the same as that of fruits, and some even taste exactly the same as freshly squeezed.

The only difference is that they are industrial blended products, mixing various ingredients and water together, and there will be no fruit involved in the entire production process of juice.

But these 'juices' are cheaper, far cheaper than fruit.

And orange juice is the cheapest of these 'juices'.

The fruit juice sellers along the way are basically orange juice sellers, and there are many people who buy them.

He Ao bought a glass of orange juice while passing by.

He took a sip and it was sour.

The taste is very different from freshly squeezed, and it can be clearly distinguished whether it is industrially blended juice or the cheapest kind.

Coles and He Ao walked together without saying a word.

After returning to the hospital, Coles bought He Ao a doctor's clothes, and then lent him his access card.

This is the first request He Ao just made.

The access control of Qunxing Zhimei Hospital has basically realized intelligentization. There are many places where you must make an appointment to enter, and some places do not allow ordinary people to enter and exit.

But this can't stop Coles, who is already a 'professor'.

With Coles' access card, He Ao can enter most places in this hospital.

There must be something special about this hospital, and there must be some kind of secret behind the corpses without souls.

Howe needs to see for himself.

He went to the emergency room first.

In the night, the door sign of the emergency building was lit with red lights.

The eyes of some people around fell on He Ao, as if they were thinking where He Ao was a doctor, but He Ao didn't care about these eyes, and walked in calmly.

The emergency building was very quiet tonight, there were not many patients, most of them were accidental injuries, and the injuries were not serious.

I searched around the emergency department, but found no obvious special arrangements, so He Ao went to the intensive care unit next to the emergency department.

There are not many patients in the intensive care unit, and most of them have stable vital signs.

He Ao searched around but found nothing, so he quickly left here and went to the next stop, the hospital building.

The inpatient building is one of the most crowded places in the entire Qunxing Zhimei Hospital, and the crowds come and go like flowing water.

······
"Bitter...so bitter..."

The old man who received the infusion in the ward opened his mouth, his voice hoarse and chaotic.

"Mom, drink some orange juice, the sour one won't be so bitter."

The son on the side quickly took out the orange juice he bought and fed it to the old man.

The red indicator light on the bedside of the old man lights up faintly, which is to remind the patient,

'It's time to pay the fee'.

······
He Ao left this ward and went to the next ward.

In this ward, an old man fell into eternal sleep.

His children surrounded him, looks of pain and relief mingling on their cheeks.

He Ao turned on his super memory and stared at the old man's body.

The faint phantom-like soul has begun to dissipate.

And at this time, a wonderful force acted on the old man's soul, like a spinning thread, and began to 'absorb' the old man's soul.

　I sorted out the outline, a little Cavan.

Tomorrow should be able to add more, double monthly ticket ask for a monthly ticket
　
(End of this chapter)