The sound of the propeller came from far away, and the helicopter skimmed the water, creating ripples in circles.
The main purpose of establishing the adaptation training base here is to improve the climate and simulate the environment of some tropical jungles as much as possible.
In November, which is generally the season of autumn in this high latitude area, the temperature here in Banna is still around 25 degrees, which is very pleasant.
The helicopter stopped steadily in the square, and two mecha warriors got off the plane first. The two robots were more than two meters tall. Their black paint not only gave people a chilling aura, but also shielded radar. Invisibility effect.
Immediately afterwards, Zhou Lei and another soldier jumped out of the plane, and in the end he was the real owner of the trip.
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"You two are so arrogant..." Mo Gu strode forward, took the arms of Qi Yumo who looked excited, and looked at the two of them with a smile: "Don't tell me that you flew here directly from a helicopter."
"No, I took the passenger plane first." Ye Ming smiled at Mo Gu, and then shook hands with Zhou Xiangnan: "Old Zhou, do you miss your son?"
"Tiantian videos are so annoying." Zhou Xiangnan chuckled, and then made way for a Western woman behind him: "Let me introduce to you, this is from the astronomy group..."
Before Ye Ming could finish Zhou Xiangnan's words, he smiled and called out the woman's name: "Hello, Dr. Anne."
"Hello, Professor Ye." Dr. Anne quietly wiped her palms on the hem of her T-shirt, and then stretched out her hand to greet Ye Ming: "It is my greatest honor to see you in person."
Her Mandarin is very standard, and her tone is sincere and sincere, without the false politeness that Europeans and Americans are accustomed to.
——As a member of the Artemis, she was the only crew member invited to the spacecraft for joint scientific research and observation after the supply module of the Artemis was damaged. This is incomparable. of honor.
Of course, she soon found out why it was her.
Because her mentor, Professor Huo Laien - a great scientist who was framed as a "defection" at that time - specially entrusted Ye Ming for her.
In Chinese terms, it means taking a back door for her. And Ye Ming was also very "face-saving" and agreed without hesitation.
At that time, Dr. Anne posted her experience on Twitter and called it a fantasy journey.
However, her encounters and actions that should have been praised and publicized brought her and her students great trouble after she returned to the ground...
Fortunately, those days are finally over. As the confrontation disappeared, her mentor invited many outstanding scientific research talents and students to come to the mainland and gained opportunities for learning and practice that were simply unavailable on the other side of the Pacific.
Of course, as someone who has collaborated with him for a long time and is a student that Professor Huo Laien has taken special care of, Dr. Anne's gains... are the biggest.
——She and her team were one of the first international teams identified by the domestically led Blue Star Joint Scientific Expedition Team.
And behind all this... Annie obviously didn't believe it without Professor Ye Ming's special care.
Ye Ming shook hands with Dr. Anne and said with a smile: "If you say that, the old man will definitely criticize you - by the way, the professor asked me to bring you a gift."
Dr. Anne was immediately overjoyed: "Really? What did the teacher bring?"
"I don't know, it seems to be a book." Ye Ming turned around and took a packaging box from Zhou Lei and handed it to her. Seeing that the other party was a little stunned, he laughed: "Of course, it might be food."
At this time, Ye Ming saw everyone else looking at him with burning eyes, and he immediately raised his hands in a gesture of surrender: "No, you don't."
"No, Mr. Ye, you didn't prepare any wedding candy for us?" Zhou Xiangnan glanced at Qi Yumo, winked and said, "You're here for your honeymoon..."
Ye Ming didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Nonsense, I just came here to relax with you - let's go into the house and say, the sun is so hot."
Everyone booed in unison, and then surrounded him into the office.
Ye Ming's visit this time was semi-public and semi-private, so he did not greet all the hundreds of people in the base. He only met with the leaders of each team. The rest of the time, he mostly stayed in Mo Valley. A remote control center for your team.
To put it bluntly, he still couldn't relax completely.
Especially when Mo Valley has begun to carry out remote mammalian gene sequencing work.
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"One of the greatest significances of remote control is to remind us that we need multiple generations of spare parts. And robots... cannot completely replace humans in this kind of tinkering."
Since it was remote control, Mo Gu did not wear a white coat, but wore a shirt casually. At this time, she was sitting on a chair with her legs crossed, looking at Ye Ming opposite and smiling: "Just now." When it was launched, there was only one sequencer available, which made our progress very slow."
"So how many units are you planning to bring this time?" Qi and Mo sat next to Ye Ming, holding Ye Ming's arm with one hand, and asked curiously.
"Three units, mainly for maintenance of spare parts and consumables."
"Well, is there anything now..." Qi Yumo glanced at Ye Ming, thought for a while and then asked: "A more meaningful discovery?"
The reason why she is so cautious is because she knows that Ye Ming is particularly cautious in this regard.
Hmm...well, actually my cousin is also very cautious.
After all... this involves the so-called "recognition of ancestors and return to the clan".
Hearing this, Mo Gu coughed lightly. She looked back at the students in her group, pulled her chair closer, and her expression became a little solemn.
Ye Ming was startled when he saw her appearance, and curiosity arose in his eyes.
He knew that Mo Gu was a person who particularly followed biological ethics in her actions - this was why she was a medical scientist, but she was fully responsible for the direction of experiments in the biological field, and even the entire joint scientific expedition team.
When it comes to the biological and genetic fields, this step really cannot be taken too far.
"Did you find anything?" Ye Ming lowered his voice subconsciously and asked curiously.
"Because of time and the intensity of the investigation, we are unable to make an accurate estimate of the lifespan of the currently sequenced organism, which is a mouse-like creature."
Ye Ming nodded.
At present, the scientific research conditions on Canglan Star are extremely limited, and there are no conditions for capturing large animals at all. Therefore, in the two months after the landing of Xunxing 8, the remote expedition team spent a long time to find an animal on Canglan Star. A mammal that looks similar to a mouse—but much larger.
While its feeding is being observed, it is also the first mammal to have its genes sequenced.
"But among the genes of this organism, we found an extremely high distribution of sirtuins genes, especially sirt6."
Ye Ming was startled for a moment, then became surprised.
Qi Yumo blinked and became curious: "sirt6? What is that?"
"A gene that is also found in organisms on earth. Its gene expression is generally called sirt6 protein. The expression tissues are mainly the brain, heart, blood vessels, liver, etc..." Mo Gujianqiu and Mo were still confused. Knowing that his cousin was just a layman in biology, and never paid much attention to it... he simply introduced her.
"Sirt - sirtuins are a type of deacetylase that is widely distributed in cells. Simply put, it is a large family of longevity proteins composed of a group of proteins. There are 7 subtypes, namely sirt1 ~ sirt7. Among them, sirt6 The main function is to repair nda, maintain gene stability, etc.”
Qi and Mo were stunned, then covered their mouths and whispered: "You mean the longevity gene?"
"Yes."
But Ye Ming frowned slightly. He thought for a while and said: "This discovery seems to only show that the gene expression of blue star creatures and humans is similar..."
"Yes, but we seem to have discovered a new sub-race." Mo Gu's eyes sparkled: "Of course, it's just speculation at the moment."
Ye Ming took a gentle breath.
He immediately thought of the guess he had made after analyzing the ruins of the space city - the lifespan of Blue Star people is generally about twice as long as that of humans.
That is, their lifespan is about 200 years.
The "year" here refers to constant time, not the period of the blue star orbiting its parent star - that is, the seconds-minutes-hours defined by atomic clock time.
"Now we have a guess. Perhaps as far as mammals are concerned, the sirtuins genes of all mammals on Blue Star have one more subfamily than ours... Well... creatures on Blue Star generally live longer than those on Earth. .”
Mo Gu looked at Ye Ming: "The results have not been uploaded to Aita yet, and I don't know...should these findings be announced without confirmation - but what we can be sure of is the lifespan gene in this organism. There is indeed an additional set of genes in the gene, but the expression organization of this gene is not yet clear."
After saying that, Mo Gu closed his mouth.
She knew this was a big deal.
——After announcing the prediction of the life span of the Blue Star people, she and Ye Ming soon regretted it.
Because... no one can resist the temptation of time and old age.
This temptation is even more deadly than eternal life.
In the past six months, there have been countless voices urging the biological team to decipher the "life code" of the creatures here as soon as possible - these have actually accelerated the pace of the entire manned scientific expedition, and it is also the reason why she can dominate the overall situation. one of the reasons.
Of course, she knew Ye Ming.
The reason why Ye Ming asked her to take full charge of the scientific expedition team was because her prudence and stability were the most important thing.
Then...she had to consider putting the news aside for now.
Ye Ming hummed slightly and then fell into silence.
He frowned slightly and looked straight ahead diagonally - looking at the position, it would be right at Mo Gu's thigh.
Of course, everyone knows that he is deep in thought now.
After a long time, Ye Ming raised his head.
"Sister, you did the right thing."
"No matter what the overall lifespan of Blue Star's organisms is, even if...even if its gene expression can be linked to human gene expression, we cannot step into this field rashly."
Mo Gu took a breath, then nodded heavily: "That's what I mean too."
"Are they okay?" Ye Ming then pointed to several graduate students behind the glass window. They were all members of the Mogu team and had been at the Brain-Computer Center before, so Ye Ming knew them all.
"There should be no problem. You know, I recruit students very carefully, but... just in case, I suggest you set up a filtering plan on Aita..." Mo Gu said and closed the door. mouth.
Her suggestion... is actually a bit unkind.
Because Aita Academic is an open and fair platform, anyone can display their talent and ideas at will.
As a tutor, Mo Gu can of course ask the graduate students not to reveal the information - but the temptation is not that great.
"Well... I will stay here with you for the next few days. When the time comes, I will ask them to keep it a secret."
"Well, it's up to you!" Mo Gu nodded heavily and breathed a sigh of relief visibly.
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In the days that followed, Ye Ming stayed in the base most of the time, remotely controlling genetic experiments with Mogu's team - of course, since the experimental conditions were indeed limited, there wasn't much he could do, mainly helping with analysis. one time.
On the contrary, he spent more time with Sheng Fei's group.
After a month of exploration, Sheng Fei finally found a relatively complete factory, and as Ye Ming expected, the factory did have facilities similar to life-support capsules.
Moreover, through analysis of the information and circuits of the factory, the design of the survival capsule is exactly the same as the design of the battleship's information circuit.
That is to say, the civilization of the Blue Planet people indeed combines brain electrical signals, or bioinformation technology, with production and control.
This discovery has excited the entire academic community.
——This is not only a comprehensive understanding of brain electrical signals and neural control, but more importantly, the use of biological brains by Blue Star people should have reached a brand new level that humans cannot currently reach!
Because the human brain simply cannot control such a complex process!
At the very least, you can’t control it while you’re awake…
Then, they must have another way to stimulate the brain's potential.
But Ye Ming didn't pay too much attention to these.
Because in his view, this approach of treating the human brain as an AI computer...is somewhat "inhumane" in nature.
Of course, it's also possible that this is just a job - maybe you can just lie down and sleep and be a "computer"?
But as far as the technology itself is concerned, the Blue Star people who have misunderstood the technology tree cannot imagine the miracles that can be created after the combination of quantum computers and strong artificial intelligence.
What Ye Ming is most concerned about is actually the extra sub-tribe.
Yes, he confirmed that there is indeed an additional subfamily in the sirtuins gene - the first seven subfamily are highly consistent with the human sirtuins gene, and only the eighth one is currently unknown.
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Perhaps, this is the secret.
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Ten days later, Ye Ming left the base and returned to the provincial capital.
The scientific expedition team is also preparing to evacuate the base. After a centralized vacation, the scientific expedition team will arrive in the Space City collectively in January to adapt to life with the Wexing Star and complete the final preparations before going to space.
