Ultra-Dimensional Technology Era

"High Variation Properties"

"Fundamentally speaking, the danger of the Fluorovirus is the uncertainty brought about by the high mutation characteristics."

Huang Fan thought about it for a second, it was true.

"We have to study how this highly variable trait arises, how it can be controlled, how it can be turned off or even knocked out."

"A word of your thoughts awakens the dreamer." Huang Fan knew that he had fallen into the wrong path before, and he had put the cart before the horse about the research direction.

The root of the fluttering virus is the high mutation characteristic. If this characteristic is lost, the new humans will always have a way to deal with it.

The two immediately extracted the original strain of the Fluorovirus, and carried out the analysis of the whole gene sequence, in the process of continuous testing and experimentation.

Soon a strange gene fragment entered Huang Fan's eyes. This gene fragment was named "Yinghuo-Basic Nucleus Fragment".

Under the atomic imaging scanner, they can clearly observe the conditions of 50 groups of petri dishes.

Among them, 10 groups were knocked out of basal nucleus fragments, another 30 groups were knocked out of other gene fragments, and the last 10 groups had no gene fragments knocked out.

Under the stimulation of micro-radiation, except for the 10 groups of fluorescent viruses whose basal core fragments were knocked out, the other 40 groups mutated to varying degrees.

Huang Fan took the statistical data and said: "It can be preliminarily determined that the base core fragment is the gene sequence that dominates the high mutation characteristics of the fluorescent virus."

"This is a good development." Jiang Zhiren also rarely smiled.

After sorting out the data, the two wrote a paper and uploaded it to the internal database. This "basic core fragment" must play a key role in the study of the fluorescent virus.

If this "basic core fragment" can be controlled to achieve controllable directional mutation, it will have a huge impact on the development of biotechnology at this time.

High mutation characteristics mean high adaptability, and for the virus itself, it can improve the viability of the virus.

And this characteristic is indeed a catastrophic problem for other organisms.

No one knows whether the virus will suddenly become a very lethal type, and the vaccine is useless because the virus is constantly mutating.

Blue Star, 15 specially-appointed researchers have entered the new Wenchang satellite city on the forward launch vehicle, and are preparing to go to the moon and use the mass projector to go to Mars.

Chapter 331 In-depth Research

October 3, New Era 1.

The Spring Festival has just passed.

A Tianzhou spacecraft on the 7000-kilometer orbit of Mars slowly braked nearby, and then maneuvered to change orbit to the Phobos satellite city on the 6000-kilometer orbit.

Du Pengxin, a former biochemical scientist at the Rongcheng base of the military, is the person who led the team to support Mars this time. He has been engaged in the work of biochemical viruses, X genes, and biochemical transformation of humans.

For the research work on the Fluorovirus, the Institute of Life Sciences finally decided to send him over.

On the one hand, Du Pengxin's attainments in genes and viruses are not low; on the other hand, he has experience in organizing large-scale biochemical research.

After coming to the Phobos satellite city, Du Pengxin entered the hibernation cabin and activated the substitute robot kept in the Martian outpost.

Huang Fan and Jiang Zhiren, who spent almost half a month studying without sleep and food, brought Du Pengxin to the biochemical experiment cabin.

"This is the Fluorescence Virus"

Huang Fan introduced: "This is the original strain of Yinghuo virus, and the one here is a mutant strain."

Looking at more than 30 mutated strains in the virus life support cabin, Du Pengxin had a slightly serious expression: "So many mutated strains"

"There are 37 strains in total, all of which are symbiotic or parasitic strains. In the freezing compartment next door, there are 82 highly toxic strains." Huang Fan reported some situations truthfully.

Upon hearing so many mutated strains, Du Pengxin gradually became serious: "The mutation speed of the Yinghuo virus is too abnormal. Where did you collect the original strain samples?"

Huang Fan stroked the air in front of him with his hand, and a virtual projected map appeared in midair, which was the topographic map around the Greek Basin.

"The red area above is the area where the Fluorovirus was found."

On the topographic map around the Greek Basin, the red area occupies nearly one-tenth or so.

There is also some basic information on the Fluorovirus. The original strain is 420-430 nanometers in length and 60-65 nanometers in width. It is long and strip-shaped, prefers shade and deep underground, can be semi-airborne (dust during excavation), and is common in underground areas. In the semi-humid formation of 20-50 meters.

"Didn't you cause a leak when you dug?"

Huang Fan shook his head: "Don't worry, our collection and management are all sterilized by nano-robots to ensure that the virus will not leak out from the ground."

"That's good."

A group of researchers who came to support them immediately put themselves into the research work. Du Pengxin affirmed the research of Huang Fan and Jiang Zhiren.

The root of the Yinghuo virus is the terrible mutation speed. Once it loses its mutation characteristics, the Yinghuo virus is just an ordinary virus.

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Rows of translucent medium, inside are countless deadly fluorescent viruses.

It only needs to put a strain of virus into Blue Star, and it can cause an ecological extinction disaster in a short time, and the mutation can be completed in a few hours after being stimulated, and any vaccine is useless.

Unlike the Huang Fans who were in full-body biochemical protective suits, Du Pengxin and others who came here with stand-in robots did not need protective suits, and only needed to carry out comprehensive disinfection when entering and leaving.

"After knocking out the base core fragment, these viruses completely lost their mutating characteristics, such weird viruses." Du Pengxin said while observing the image.

In the virus culture medium, these "castrated" fluorescent viruses can be clearly observed through the scanning of the atomic imaging scanner.

Although replication and reproduction can be carried out, the mutation efficiency has dropped by thousands of times. Under the stimulus-induced mutation, the mutation efficiency is less than one ten thousandth of the previous one, which is no different from ordinary viruses.

On the other side, those viruses that have not been "castrated", even if a third of the gene fragments have been destroyed, as long as the base core fragments still exist, the viruses can mutate.

Huang Fan, who was observing the gene sequences of these viruses, suddenly discovered a feature.

As long as the deoxyribonucleotide No. 67 in the base core fragment is successfully combined with the human gene chain, that is, the deoxyribonucleotide does not change, the virus will form a symbiotic relationship with human cells.

He quickly recorded this discovery, based on this discovery, and found out the No. 32 deoxyribonucleotide in the base core fragment, which determines the parasitic relationship of the virus; the No. 55 deoxyribonucleotide, which determines the infection preference of the virus...

With the assistance of supercomputers, the functions of 112 deoxyribonucleotides in the base core fragment were preliminarily determined by Huang Fan.

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In fact, there is a big difference between the deoxyribonucleotides of the fluorescent virus and the blue star.

Bluestar's deoxyribonucleotide molecule is composed of three molecules: a nitrogenous base, a deoxyribose, and a phosphate.

Deoxynucleotides are the basic structural and functional units of genes, and the part that determines the diversity of organisms is the four bases in deoxynucleotides.

They are: adenine (abbreviated as A), thymine (abbreviated as T), cytosine (abbreviated as C) and guanine (abbreviated as G).

The order in which these four bases are arranged differs, determining biodiversity.