Gao Zhouzhi walked through the office and heard Cui Shangde discussing things with people from other companies inside.
"Provide the computer with the details of every step of changes in proteins and DNA. You can understand its past and predict its future."
In fact, they were discussing plant-based houses. Some plants found in Sencheng may have been artificially cultivated to grow into the shape of houses and are strong and durable. After testing, they are as strong as ancient wooden houses. It only needs to be painted on the interior walls, floors, and roofs for a small amount of processing.
Inside these plants, a new element is discovered, the solid element. This is also the name people gave it based on its characteristics. It means that it can change into a certain fixed shape, although it is very small at first, like an ordinary stone.
Gao Zhouzhi, Luo Shao, Ye Jiazhen and others went to Sencheng to investigate these strange plants.
Gao Zhouzhi said: "You said he asked us to investigate what these plant buildings are used for, and whether they are used to design some buildings for people to live in."
Luo Shao said: "No, we study chemistry. This should be done by people majoring in architecture."
Gao Zhouzhi said: "Maybe we can extract some rare elements from this plant."
Luo Shao said: "Plants have evolved like any form of life. They have evolved their own forms of offense, defense, etc. Today's scientists, in addition to considering animals in nature, are also thinking about green plants. Plants have evolved in the struggle for survival. It exhibits many behaviors, complex symbiosis with other animals and plants, sending warnings to other animals and plants, and getting along with people."
Ye Jiazhen said: "I use the word "get along" instead of "symbiotic". After all, there is not much dependence between the two.
They arrived at Qimai Mountain to the west of Sencheng. From a distance, there are tall plants.
They walked around the plant building and discovered a mixture of phosphate and calcium carbonate on the ground.
Luo Shao said: "Isn't this a pearl? How could it be found on a tree?"
Gao Zhouzhi said: "The pearl is in the water. Maybe this is a body of water."
Ye Jiazhen said: "Look everywhere to see if there are any traces of aquatic life in other places."
Luo Shao said: "Okay."
Everyone looked everywhere for other things like shells and fish bones, but after searching for a whole day, they found nothing.
Gao Zhouzhi said: "No. What's going on?"
Luo Shao said: "If it were a body of water, there should be some fish bones and shells, but there are only this kind of pearls."
Gao Zhouzhi said: "Then this shouldn't be a pearl, just something that looks like a pearl."
Ye Jiazhen said: "Take it back to the laboratory for testing. See if it is related to the environment here, or if it is another substance that entered."
Gao Zhouzhi said: "Okay."
After returning to the laboratory, Gao Zhouzhi took the round beads and did some experiments.
Gao Zhouzhi said: "Report, some substances here are easy to volatilize, but they can also solidify after a certain distance."
Ye Jiazhen said: "Place the subject in liquid helium and use low temperature to suppress the thermal vibration of its molecules for shooting."
Luo Shao said: "Did you find anything?"
Gao Zhouzhi watched for a while and shouted: "Programmer!"
Luo Shao said: "What?"
Gao Zhouzhi said: "I looked at it for a long time before giving it this name. These substances have already written control information, but they are different from the controllers we see every day. The chip is where we transmit the control data through electrical signals. Written in. But in biology, a lot of information is transmitted through DNA genes and so on. This information is indeed in these substances."
Yang Yuling said: "How did you know?"
Gao Zhouzhi said: "Although these are the same substance, there are some differences in the internal structure of their molecules. I did some experiments. That is to vaporize them. The same substance, molecules with different encoding information, their movement paths It's different. The path is fixed. That is to say, someone has written their movement path into these molecular chips like a program in advance." Gao Zhouzhi said excitedly. He didn't know how to organize language. Sometimes Just invent some words.
Yang Yuling said: "That is to say, we can compare this molecule to a controller. Someone has written the program into this controller. So this controller, it is like a drone. The path has been set in advance. This drone flies according to the path it has set in advance. Forward and backward, left and right, up and down. The same material, that is to say, these aircraft look the same. But the molecules inside them The structure is different, which means that the programs written in these drones are different. It can be understood this way."
Gao Zhouzhi said: "You are right, these molecules can be compared to very, very small drones. Then they fly according to the preset path. This is very different from the airflow we encountered before. The difference is that the airflow will be affected by the wind and other gases next to it. Moreover, the flow speed and diffusion of the same molecules are the same, but here, their flow and diffusion are completely different."
Ye Jiazhen said: "Fluid element. Let me define it this way for now."
Luo Shao said: "How do they carry other materials?"
Gao Zhouzhi said: "I think there are some large pores inside these objects, a porous structure like a sponge. Other substances are absorbed into this carrier."
Ye Jiazhen said: "Perhaps the fluid element you are talking about, or the programming molecule, is a receptor with a depression. We can look for chemicals that can bind to the receptor in this depression for delivery."
They conducted preliminary research and then reported the situation to Cui Shangde.
Cui Shangde said: "The company came to me not to build a house with this plant, but because of some medicinal elements inside it. For example, the flow element can accurately transport drugs to designated parts of the human body for medical treatment."
Ye Jiazhen said: "Many drugs now enter the human body through the stomach or through injection. If this fluid element is used as a carrier to transport drugs to specific parts, then new drugs can be developed. Its The mechanism is also completely different.”
"We have some new drugs that need to be improved," Cui Shangde said.
Yang Yuling said: "There are two methods to determine the chemical structure of a drug: one is a new design method that is designed from scratch, and the other is a screening method that selects highly active structures from existing compounds. Now we can use the first method."
"Through the base sequence of the gene, we can know the three-dimensional structure of the receptor protein, thereby designing the chemical structure of the drug that binds to it, and analyzing the structure of the complex after the drug binds to the receptor. With the flow element, we can There is no need to think too much about the transport process of this drug in the human body. Instead, just consider what drugs are needed for the part to be repaired.”
