Abnormal Museum Pokédex

Chapter 14 S1.E14. Chimerism

Xiao Su sat on the high chair with his senior sister's special coffee cup and meditated.

After a moment, he said, "Chimera."

The senior sister gave her a hand.

Chimera, a fire-breathing two-headed beast in Greek mythology, has the head of a lion, the body of a sheep and the tail of a snake.

In biology, it has another interpretation - chimera.

Chimera refers to an organism containing two or more DNA sequences at the same time, and they are tolerant to each other without rejection.

This condition is common in grafted plants but very rare in animals and humans.

The most unique case medically documented to date is that of an American woman named Lydia.When she applied for social assistance, she was found to have different DNA from the two children, so she was almost imprisoned for fraud.Later, she gave birth to a third child under the supervision of official witnesses, and the test results were still the same. Only then did the doctor discover that different parts of her body contained four different DNAs—if samples were taken from her hair and skin, her The DNA is very different from the child, but if sampled from the ovary, it is exactly the same.

"You mean, this mythical beast is a Chimera phenomenon?" Senior Sister asked, "You think it's a quadruple DNA chimera?"

Xiao Su nodded, opened the photo of the beast, and said, "Don't you think it looks like a Chimera monster? Its head is like a raccoon, its body is like a stone marten, its tail is like a mouse, and the bone spurs on its back... Dinosaur?"

The senior sister was full of black lines: "Do you think it is a grafted fruit tree? According to the DNA test, it has four different sequences, but all of them belong to mice. It is impossible for strange multi-species grafting to occur?!"

Xiao Su frowned in thought, tapped the table with his fingers, and said slowly: "It may also be a phenomenon of rejection—when multiple DNAs appear in a living body, it may cause multiple rejections, such as fur discoloration, neurological deformities, and bone abnormalities. Change... It's like the rejection that occurs after a human being receives an organ transplant, and if it doesn't work out, he will die."

After a pause, he suddenly said: "This can also explain why it died suddenly, can't it?"

The senior sister opened her mouth and looked at him for a long time, and said, "Junior brother Xiao, you have a rich imagination." She took out her mobile phone and muttered, "I have to write down such an awesome meme, and tell my sister to write it in the novel later." Here, cheat some money to buy me LV."

This time it's Xiao Su's turn to be full of black lines: You two are really sisters.

After remembering the meme, the senior sister raised her head: "If it died of rejection, it is most likely not a natural creature."

Xiao Su thought about it, and felt that what she said made sense.Multiple chimeras rarely appear in natural organisms, and even if they do, fatal rejection is rarely produced, otherwise they would be naturally screened out during the embryonic stage, and it would be impossible to produce them.

Only artificially "grafted" creatures can gradually weaken and die after a period of rejection.

"I have to do the autopsy again." Xiao Su took the last sip of coffee and returned the small beaker to the senior sister, "Thank you for the coffee."

"You want to find the cause of its death?" The senior sister yawned, tore off two eye masks and pasted them on the lower eyelids, and massaged herself with her orchid fingers, "Confirm the rejection?"

Xiao Su nodded, and couldn't help persuading him: "Senior sister, you'd better get some sleep, cultivating immortals every day, it's useless to use any eye mask."

"Skin care is metaphysics, you don't understand." The senior sister waved her hand and asked him to leave, "Ben San female scientists can't give up on treatment, maybe a tall, rich and handsome man will walk in in a minute and ask me to do an evaluation for him. "

Xiao Su: "..." Then what do you think I am?

"Don't think too much, we are a brotherly friendship. No matter how tall, handsome and rich you are, I will not engage in orthopedic surgery with you." The senior sister poked Xiao Su with a 40-meter knife, and went to wash her coffee. The beaker is gone.

Xiao Su retreated silently.

In the afternoon there were two big lectures, Xiao Su was worried about something, and almost taught the wrong subject, and finally stayed until after get off work, and ran to the laboratory without even eating.

The previous autopsy was rough, just for sampling, this time Xiao Su began to carefully search for the real cause of death of the beast.

First the heart and lungs, then the liver, kidneys, stomach, intestines... and finally the brain.

After finishing a full set of detailed autopsies, and then processing the samples that need to be tested for pathology and toxicology, the sky outside the window has faintly revealed fish-belly.

Xiao Su took off his glasses, sat on the high chair and rubbed the bridge of his nose, feeling a slight numbness in his fingertips, and then realized that he hadn't eaten for nearly twenty hours.

There was nothing in the laboratory, and he didn't have the special skills of his senior sister to use the equipment to get enough food and clothing, so he could only hobble with the samples to find her for food.

As usual, the senior sister was still cultivating immortality, and when she saw him coming in, she said sympathetically, "You haven't eaten supper, have you? Your face is so pale that you can pretend to be a ghost."

"I forgot to eat dinner." Xiao Su was a little hypoglycemic, and after handing over the sample to her, he couldn't bear to lie down on the test bench: "Do you have any snacks to help?"

The senior sister nodded, took out her special beaker from the instrument cabinet, lit the alcohol lamp, set up the asbestos net, and started cooking instant noodles for him: "It's a pity that the hot pot base is gone. In fact, there are still beef balls and shrimps I saved in the refrigerator." Dumplings and crab sticks, otherwise we can still cook hot pot."

Female scientists are truly an indescribable species... Xiao Su was so impressed with his senior sister that when he turned around, he found that her laptop was turned on, which seemed to be a live broadcast interface.

"You also like to watch live broadcasts?" Xiao Su recalled his experience of watching movies, and couldn't help but have some indescribable guesses.

The senior sister took off a mask and put it on her face, and said, "It's my sister. She does a live broadcast once a week and asks me to squat in the room to preside over the order for him."

"Your younger sister also plays live streaming?" Xiao Su vaguely remembered that her younger sister was a top student who just entered the Institute of Life Sciences of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in this city last year. "Isn't she a graduate student at the Chinese Academy of Sciences? What is she streaming?"

"Live-streaming writing, the two of us have been relying on her writing to earn tuition fees these years." The senior sister tapped her face with her orchid fingers, and sighed, "It's not easy to mix in the online literature circle. When I was young, the author only had to open You can become an Internet celebrity with only one Weibo, but now, tsk tsk, you have to get fans through live broadcasts."

After a pause, Wan Zun said: "Of course, I'm not old now."

When Xiao Su was in high school, he read online articles, such as "The Overlord of the Evil Young Master" and "Interstellar Invincible Buddha Cultivator"... I didn't expect that the online article circle is so difficult now: "What can I do to broadcast live? Let readers watch her type?"

"I can't type all the time, that's so boring, and I still have to find time to pet a cat and eat something delicious."

Out of curiosity, Xiao Su leaned over to take a look, only to see a gothic girl typing on the page.Senior Sister's younger sister actually looks completely different from her, she walks the glamorous loli route, with a black high-necked gauze dress, black long straight bangs, and a black pirate eye patch covering her right eye.

It's hard for her to type so fast with one eye!

There were more than [-] people online in the room. From time to time, someone would send her flowers, yachts or something, and the messages would fly all over the place.Xiao Su tried hard to read it for a long time before he realized that she was writing horror and suspense novels. The style was particularly dark and treacherous.

Someone described it with a particularly precise metaphor, saying that it is like Haidilao spicy pot, knowing that eating chrysanthemum will hurt for three days, but still can't help but want to eat it every day.

Xiao Su felt that this reader could make his debut as a writer.

"Wait..." Xiao Su suddenly realized something terrible, "Pig Peggy? Your sister's name is Peggy Pig?"

"Ah, when she was young, she was ugly like a pig. I don't know why the longer she grows, the more beautiful she is, and now she surpasses me!" The senior sister said angrily, "When I was young, I was like a flower, but now I'm just like a flower... Alas, So we agreed to study life science together to solve this unsolved mystery."

"..." The reason for dedicating oneself to science is also the reason of the painting style.

In the live broadcast room, Piggy Page finished coding and told readers in a cold and noble voice that he was going to update, see you next week.Thinking of her scary baby voice, Xiao Su couldn't help admiring her ever-changing voice, and she could be a CV.

The supper was finally cooked, and while eating instant noodles, Xiao Su told his senior sister the results of his anatomy: "I think the possibility of rejection is very high. There are also mutations, which are common immune rejection phenomena. However, the fatal cause of death is heart failure. I am still not sure whether this failure is a chain reaction caused by a series of rejections, and further pathological research is needed. "

The senior sister is processing the new sample he brought, nodded and said: "I see, leave it to me."

Xiao Su added: "If its 'gene grafting' is really man-made, the perpetrators will definitely give it anti-rejection drugs for a long time, and the internal organs, especially the liver and kidneys, will definitely leave obvious traces."

The senior sister looked at the label he wrote and said, "Understood, those are the common anti-rejection drugs. I will check them one by one and try to give you a definite conclusion by next Monday."

"Thank you, Sister!"

There was no class in the morning, so Xiao Su went home after eating instant noodles and took a deep sleep. He got up at noon and ordered a takeaway. I simply wrote a short article on some of the analysis results I had determined, and sent it out as the "Part One".

[Farmer: Creature No. 100 is likely to be a rare "Chimera chimera", I need more time to do research, please give me more time. /Laugh and cry/Laugh and cry/Laugh and cry. 】

Less than 3 minutes later, a private message flashed in the background, and Mr. Xiao Jingdun sent a brief message: [Brother, I have some questions to ask you, open UMBRA, I put it in the "gadgets" folder. 】

The author has something to say: Pig Peppa: The strong pig-spirited girl vomits blood and codes, supporting an academic sky for her sister.

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