Chapter 1,155 Synthetic Life

Walking out of Mike Pence's house, Eric took out his cell phone from his arms, dialed a number, and then put it to his ear.

"He has agreed."

After a pause of about three seconds, a slightly hoarse voice came from the other end of the phone.

"That agreement?"

"It's signed here," Eric continued.

"Very good." The hoarse voice carried a touch of approval, and after a moment, he continued to order, "Send the things to the old place, and then go out for a vacation."

"receive."

After hanging up the phone, Eric took the phone card out of the phone, broke it in half, and threw it into the sewer nearby. After the two left the street, they went their separate ways and disappeared into the crowd in Washington.

…

After putting Trump on the plane, Jiang Chen was preparing to go home with Ayesha. Before he left the airport, he received a call from Star Circle City. After asking people at the airport to arrange the runway, he got on the Sky G100 and flew to Star Ring City.

After arriving at the Aerospace Department, he greeted Kerwin. Under the escort of the Halo soldiers, Jiang Chen arrived at the special project research institute that was protected at all levels. There are already many people living in the deserted research institute, not only the two hundred researchers who have returned from Mars research, but also about four to five hundred scientific researchers whose research fields involve related confidential content. They have entered through voluntary applications. in this research institute.

After signing a non-disclosure agreement, everyone will be screened for veritaserum to ensure that no spies are involved.

Ghost agents have always done a good job in counter-espionage. So far, data theft has not happened once. The number of spies and intelligence officers from other countries that Aisha had dealt with could not be counted on two hands.

Arriving at Dr. Amos's laboratory, Jiang Chen's eyes were immediately attracted by the huge culture tank located in the center of the laboratory.

In the cylindrical culture tank, a fetal-shaped thing was seen floating in the dark green culture fluid. Large and small pipelines were connected to the "fetus", and large and small bubbles continued to spurt from the bottom of the culture tank.

"In order to prevent you from misunderstanding, I have to make a statement first," Dr. Amos walked out of the trap door on the side, took off the glasses on the bridge of his nose, hung them on his chest pocket, and said jokingly, " This is a gorilla fetus, not a human."

"How come you started studying gorilla fetuses?" Jiang Chen asked strangely.

"Except for some knowledge about Crane particles, the knowledge I inherited is mainly concentrated in the biological field." As he spoke, Kerwin pointed his index finger at the culture tank, "And this thing is my experiment." one."

"That's really a pity." Jiang Chen expressed his regret tactfully.

Before using the Flower of Memory, no one can know what memory is about to be inherited.

Amos's own research directions mainly focus on artificial intelligence, electronic machinery and other fields. Although the neural access system is also one of his masterpieces, in fact, this scientific research result does not involve much knowledge in the biological field. For him, the knowledge he inherited was completely in a field he had never touched before.

"Is it a pity?" His expression did not show much regret. Dr. Amos shrugged and continued, "Although my research direction involves more in the field of physics, I have always held a positive attitude towards biology. . The prospects of such a subject will not be narrower than physics. If the latter is to guide us to understand the world, then the former is to teach us how to become God."

Jiang Chen smiled after hearing this metaphor.

Indeed, for now, the creation of life remains the domain of God.

Even though today's chip manufacturing processes can reach below 1nm, humans are still unable to synthesize even a single cell from scratch.

Even in the 22nd century, there have been several dramatic breakthroughs in biological technology, but artificial cells are still at the forefront of technology.

I remember that Lin Ling had talked about this issue with him a long time ago. It seems that the Nobel Prize in Biology in that year was awarded to a pan-Asian biologist who used the most basic elements such as carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, etc. to synthesize the most advanced structure. Mycoplasma simplex.

"As long as you think it's okay," Jiang Chen walked to the side of the cultivation tank, looked up and asked casually. "By the way, what is this thing? A cloned animal?"

"Cloning? It's not that simple." Amos smiled and shook his head. "The materials are a piece of DNA code and a periodic table of elements. Not long ago, we created life from scratch."

After hearing the words "create life", Jiang Chen looked at him in surprise.

It is unique in biology to use DNA data and original chemical elements to synthesize a gorilla fertilized egg cell from scratch, and then allow it to develop into a mature gorilla in a culture tank that simulates an intrauterine environment.

Even a layman like him could tell how difficult it was.

It is no exaggeration to say that if you take out any technical difficulty of this experiment and write a paper alone, it will be of a level that is enough to shock the entire biological world and be nominated for the Nobel Prize.

By creating self-designed DNA codes and creating species that do not exist in this world, humans have never been so close to the realm of gods.

"Gaia civilization's research in the field of biotechnology is quite advanced. Because the technological span in between is too large, I can't describe the gap between us and Gaia in the biological field. Tell me something that interests you. Through this technology , we can take out the genetic fragments of Martian species such as lions, leopards, tigers and even devil bugs, and design biological soldiers with individual combat capabilities comparable to superhumans, and then mass-produce them using cell synthesis technology."

At this point, Amos paused and said in a joking tone.

"I bet that the cost of producing a devil bug adapted to the earth's environment is definitely much lower than the cost of producing a tank."

"Wouldn't it cause problems such as biological invasion?" Jiang Chen frowned.

"This problem is actually easy to solve. Just set the number of chromosomes to an odd number when combining biological DNA," Amos said.

The principle is the same as that of mules. As long as the created creatures are made sterile, there will naturally be no troublesome problems such as biological invasion.

For some reason, Jiang Chen's thoughts drifted to 20.5 light-years away when he looked at the creature in the cultivation tank.

Perhaps it was based on this technology that the colonists who arrived at Gliese 581G finally embarked on the road to biological civilization.

An idea flashed in his mind.

Jiang Chen suddenly looked at Amos and asked another question that suddenly occurred to him.

"If we use cell synthesis technology...can we resurrect the disappeared Gaia civilization?"