The ethics review team did not immediately come to a conclusion. After all, what Chen Xin said now is only conceptual. When the actual research is carried out, many things will be different from what was initially imagined.
Especially if it involves human body modification and gene editing, it will have an extremely huge impact, unless the people in the review team are not careful.
While the people in the review team were still carefully discussing and reviewing Chen Xin's research, the military people had already taken the lead in finding Chen Xin and learned about the super soldier transformation plan he had proposed before.
The military also understands the problems and impacts brought about by human body modification and gene editing, but the super soldiers described by Chen Xin still made the military inevitably have some inquiries and curiosity.
After all, wasn’t the tough guy in the movie who wore the Confederate flag and fought through World War II with a shield also a genetically modified person?
If all soldiers... no, even just the soldiers of a division or a special operations brigade can achieve such human-limited combat capabilities, it will be full of temptation for the military.
Of course, the premise for the military to support Chen Xin's research is that this research will not bring harm or adverse consequences.
"With the technology I currently have, achieving the combat power of the captain in the movie will not have any adverse effects." Chen Xin still used the combat power standards he was familiar with when writing fan fiction as an example to explain to the commissioner sent by the military. Author: "Strictly speaking, this level of genetic modification cannot be called modification. It can only be regarded as enhancement, allowing the human body's genes to show their optimal state. This enhancement is actually the same as genetically modified soybeans that can enhance the ability to resist diseases and pests. .
As for whether there will be any adverse effects, I can only say that within three generations of inheritance, there will be no problems within 50 years of individual survival. More follow-up effects require long-term experimental observation to draw more conclusions. . "
In fact, with the black technology shown in the system upgrade, it is very easy for Chen Xin to achieve genetic enhancement without side effects. But at this moment, no one would believe him if he said this.
So Chen Xin still gave a more conservative answer.
"Will there be no problems within three generations of inheritance?" Even the military first considers issues of genetics and sequelae.
"Well, this result is obtained through calculation. As for what the consequences will be after three generations, I currently lack a supercomputer and cannot calculate the possible consequences." It is indeed possible to perform calculations in this area through supercomputers, Chen Xin is not asking for a supercomputer, he is just stating a fact.
Moreover, after the scientific research base is built, it will definitely be equipped with a supercomputer.
"Three generations...that's almost at least 50-70 years!" The military commissioner calculated the time slightly and understood that Chen Xin's previous statement that an individual survives for fifty years is actually consistent with the genetic time. .
"This time is not long, and the probability of real problems is lower than the probability of the human body's own genetic mutation. Simply put, the probability of problems with genetic enhancement is far lower than the probability of a normal person getting cancer. "Chen Xin gave a very typical comparison example, but he also understood that it was not very comparable.
Although the probability of getting cancer is very high, and even everyone has the probability of getting cancer, cancer is just a disease, and it is not contagious. Only one person will die at most, and the impact is limited.
But if there is a problem with genetic enhancement, it is likely to affect all individuals who have received genetic enhancement, even their descendants.
You can never be too cautious on a matter like this.
The military commissioner did not have the right to make decisions. He only learned about the situation from Chen Xin and recorded all the information for the purpose of inquiry and discussion by his superiors.
So after asking questions about genetic enhancement, the military commissioner also asked about Chen Xin's previously submitted plan to obtain wolf-enhancing genes through genetic modification to create more powerful super soldiers. The problem.
"Academician Chen, how did you come up with the idea of using wolf genes to transform humans? This is no longer a simple ethical issue, right? To put it mildly, this is a hybrid between humans and animals!" The words of the military commissioner were already very serious. After all, Even individuals would be repulsed by transforming people into beasts.
However, regarding this question, Chen Xin just touched his chin, then took out his notebook, opened a document and displayed it in front of the military commissioner.
This is a background setting and related information about the Space Wolves in Warhammer 40K. It is also the source of inspiration for the entire transformation plan proposed by Chen Xin.
"Is this a game setting? Is this the source of your inspiration, Academician Chen? But the so-called interstellar transformation surgery above involves the implantation of nineteen artificial organs through nineteen surgeries, turning an ordinary person into a superman. , is this really possible?" The military commissioner did not have any ideas because what Chen Xin took out was a game setting. Instead, he carefully evaluated the information and carefully judged if it was really possible. Able to realize the impact of Space Marine transformation.
"If it's just a transformation surgery, I can say there is no problem." Chen Xin dared to make this guarantee, because it is not difficult to realize the technology related to the transformation of space warriors.
The real mystery is the cultivation of artificial organs, which is the basis of the existence of Space Marines in Warhammer 40K - gene seeds.
"Then artificial organs... No wonder, Academician Chen, you need wolf genetic samples and living embryos, and you also need to genetically modify humans!" The military commissioner had already understood what Chen Xin meant, and showed an expression of sudden realization.
Chen Xin nodded affirmatively, pointed to a portrait of a space warrior on the computer and explained to the military commissioner: "Gene seeds for cultivating artificial organs are created by genetically modifying wolves, and then cultivated from the gene seeds. Artificial organs are then surgically implanted into the modified human body.
Technically speaking, the entire process will not affect the human body's own genes, because the transformation surgery does not modify the genes to strengthen the space warriors, but affects the work of the human body's original natural organs through the implanted artificial organs. Theoretically speaking, the enhancement of space warriors will not affect the genes of the human body itself.
And this is also the reason why in the game setting, it takes ten years to complete all nineteen transformation surgeries of Space Marines, because this is not a mutation caused by genetic compilation, but a secondary development under the influence of artificial organs. "
