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Chapter 378 Organ Cloning

For nearly half a month, Xia Xu spent in the special ward of the hospital. Cui Xinghua and Gu Haiming also checked the changes of the second heart and collected his body data.

During this period, Chen Leyao came to visit many times, and Tang Youxin also asked for leave and came back several times. After seeing that his body was stable and recovered without any abnormalities, she finally felt relieved.

Normally, it would take at least a month for the heart surgery to recover to the point where he could barely be discharged from the hospital, or even two or three months if it was slow, but in fact his recovery speed was far faster than normal.

After storing K protein for two days, the strengthening mode of the second heart began to operate continuously at a low intensity, and the body spontaneously mobilized nutrients to strengthen the body.

And this strengthening process is actually accompanied by a repairing process, just like physical exercise strains the muscles, and then the body repairs and strengthens, the strengthening mode of the second heart also stimulates the body's self-healing function.

Of course, it certainly cannot reach the level of a superpower like Wolverine Deadpool, or even a broken-tailed gecko, but it is still extremely efficient to quickly heal some sutured wounds with modern medicine.

So in the past sixteen days, almost half a month, Xia Xu can already be discharged from the hospital, but just in case, it is best to avoid strenuous exercise in the near future.

Because of this, he has been discharged from the hospital today, but he did not give up the one-month vacation that he had originally planned. He plans to spend another half month in Decheng to recuperate, and by the way, he is also planning the main direction of Xinghai Biology in the next stage.

Needless to say, Gu Haiming's side, the second heart project has basically come to an end. After half a month of data monitoring, no defects or hidden dangers have been found for the time being, and all functions are operating normally.

Combining the Heart of Rage with Cui Xinghua's blood circulation modification plan, this can almost be said to be a mature body modification technology. In theory, anyone with a K-protein carrying physique can accept the modification.

It's a pity that there is still a slight flaw in the universality. The effect of the heart of rage is essentially based on the special physique of the K protein carrier. The audience is relatively rare, and the experimental monkeys of Yingke Bio are needed to cultivate the heart. Tens of millions to start.

However, these are all based on considerations in the category of commercial products. From a functional point of view, it is already perfect enough. In the future, the universality can be gradually improved and the manufacturing cost can be reduced.

It's just that these can be handed over to other researchers below, and it's not very cost-effective to let a top genetic engineer like Gu Haiming focus on this.

There is no suspense about the next stage of the task that Xia Xu arranged for him. Naturally, it is the giant gland and related materials brought back this time.

The giant gland information he obtained from Gardner is not complete, and it can even be said to be only a small part, but sometimes, technology and results cannot be confused.

"So, we can create giant test subjects by directly cloning this part of the brain gland sample?"

Having just been discharged from the hospital and returned to the underground laboratory of Xinghai Biology, Xia Xu, who had learned about the research progress of giant glands from Gu Haiming, received an unexpected good news.

Naturally, he had already handed over the data and samples of the giant gland to Gu Haiming when he came back, so during the half month he was hospitalized, Gu Haiming and the others were also analyzing and studying that part of the data in addition to monitoring the condition of the second heart.

"Theoretically so."

Gu Haiming nodded slightly, and continued: "The brain gland samples you brought back should be the latest samples that they are researching and seem to have had successful cases.

This mutated gland has a certain ability to deceive the immune system, so it will not produce too strong a rejection reaction, and conventional medication is enough to suppress it, and it can completely allow allogeneic transplantation.

Although I can't re-modulate this gland from beginning to end due to data loss, it is not difficult to directly use cloning technology to copy this alienated brain gland. After a period of time, I can find a cloning solution. "

Cloning, this is actually not a word that is very far away from human beings.

I believe most people have read the story of cloning Dolly the sheep in biology books. As early as 1996, human beings had completed the cloning of sheep by using somatic cell nuclear transfer technology.

Of course, the textbook says Dory died early because of a cloning defect.

However, what the textbook does not say is that only Dolly died, and her cloned sisters and descendants at the same time, and the mice, fish, pigs, etc. that various biologists tried to clone in the future are all alive and well.

Dolly's death was simply an exception.

If there are no concerns about ethics and regulations, even cloning human beings would not be so difficult nowadays.

Of course, compared to cloning a complete living body, cloning individual organs, especially cloning directly from differentiated tissues without using egg cells, is obviously much more difficult technically.

But this is obviously not a problem for Gu Haiming. Although the heart of berserk is genetically modulated, its cultivation process is actually no different from cloning.

Using the induced pluripotent stem cell technology that appeared as early as 2000 and won the Nobel Prize in 2012, even differentiated cells such as skin and even blood cells can be restored to pluripotent stem cells.

Pluripotent stem cells, as the name suggests, are extremely 'multipotent'. Although they cannot develop into a complete individual, they can theoretically differentiate into any cell type of the organism through the induction of adapted molecular signals.

Based on this, combined with various technologies to provide a growth environment, these cells can automatically develop into tissues and organs according to genetic programs, so not to mention the heart, even the brain can theoretically be cloned.

So, not only Seablue Star, but even the group of biologists on Earth have great potential if they really want to do something. It's no wonder that as long as it is a science fiction movie, they are indispensable.

Of course, the above is just a simple description, and the real situation of organ cloning must be more complicated.

For example, look for molecular signals that induce differentiation. For example, it is difficult for an organ to grow and shape normally when it develops alone. It needs to cooperate with the corresponding culture and regulation program. The induced pluripotent stem cells can only differentiate into corresponding individual organs and lack the supply of blood vessels and other tissues and organs. Nutrients cannot grow too large and so on.

However, these are obviously not a big problem for Gu Haiming. As long as he is willing to spend time and energy on research, the difficulty is slightly greater than cultivating a violent heart.

"Dr. Gu, you said that it is theoretically so, so this should be followed by a but, right?"

Xia Xu was not dazzled by Gu Haiming's good news.

"Uh, cough cough, this... well, there is indeed a but."

Gu Haiming coughed twice in embarrassment after being exposed, and said: "The data about the giant's glands is all from the part of the data you got back, so I can't know the real situation, unless we also conduct human body research. Experiment, but it's also..."

The worry on Gu Haiming's face was obvious.

The giant gland was not a berserk heart that he had personally concocted and cultivated. What Xia Xu brought back was only a very small part of the research materials.

With this information, he didn't have any in-depth knowledge of the giant's glands, and even some of the known experimental data were obtained through the research data of an illegal organization.

No, it can't even be said to be research data. Those are completely temporary records that have not been officially archived. God knows whether the experimental data recorded in it is reliable or not, and whether it has been verified.

If you want to verify the above data, you can only use the current giant gland samples to conduct biological experiments.

If he wants to study the giant gland in depth, he can only conduct biological experiments because he lacks real research and development materials.

However, this gland is a human brain gland, and even if it is alienated, it can only be adapted to humans.

But such a completely unknown experimental sample that is likely to cause various distortions in the human body, and the technical details are not well understood, so applying it directly to human experiments is tantamount to disregarding human life.

"Forget about the human experiment. Let's not worry. If it doesn't work, we can study it slowly, or I can try to get a more perfect technology."

Xia Xu can't be as cold-blooded as Gardner, and if he really acts like this, it will only make Gu Haiming, Cui Xinghua and others alienated, so it is naturally impossible to agree to this kind of thing, and he shook his head decisively before continuing to ask: "Giant glands?" Putting the body aside, what about epiphyseal restart technology? Is it in there?"

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