Time quickly came to two days later.
The medical insurance negotiations were in full swing, and Xinghai Biological naturally sent Chen Leyao as planned.
As for Xia Xu, he was not good at and didn't like such occasions, so he had no intention of going. What's more, he had other things to do today.
Early in the morning, he was awakened by Gu Haiming's excited and impatient phone call.
"How is it, Mr. Gu, what's the situation?"
Xia Xu rushed to the Xinghai Biological Research Institute.
"It has basically been successful, and the next step is just to do clinical trials."
Gu Haiming came out personally to greet Xia Xu and walked quickly inside. Soon they entered the biological laboratory he was in charge of. This laboratory had been separated and occupied an entire floor of the research institute.
After going through complicated disinfection and sterilization and changing of clothes, Xia Xu saw a scene in a transparent glass cage in a sterile room that made him feel a little uncomfortable.
A small macaque was imprisoned in a completely transparent glass cage. However, the macaque was in a state of complete confinement and anesthesia. There were no wounds on its chest, but blood vessels were spreading out, and a dark red heart the size of an egg was beating outside the body.
There is no doubt that this is exactly the "second heart" that Gu Haiming proposed more than two months ago.
"The second heart is actually relatively simple in terms of genetic technology. It is thanks to these experimental monkeys from Intech Biotechnology that we have successfully cultivated the organ..."
Gu Haiming introduced the experimental situation and progress in detail.
Biological and medical research has never been a career that can be pursued by those with excessive love, because both biotechnology and medical technology cannot escape the stage of clinical trials.
Before conducting clinical trials, in order to control the success rate and risk, animals are the only option. Even a medical school would dissect countless frogs and mice every year.
After all, it is better to let animals die than to let humans die.
Being a human being, we should always put people first.
As the species that are closest to human genes, monkeys and gorillas are undoubtedly the most advanced human substitutes, with genetic similarities basically exceeding 90%.
However, monkeys are not just ordinary monkeys. If they are to be used in medical and biological experiments, they must first be docile and cooperative enough.
Therefore, large and difficult-to-control gorillas were excluded first, and basically a few specific species of monkeys were selected, such as small macaques like crab-eating macaques and rhesus macaques.
And in order to ensure that they are healthy enough and there are no other factors that can affect the experimental results, wild monkeys are not allowed. All monkeys need to be carefully bred and raised in a highly clean environment.
Because of this, there are actually quite a few biological companies that specialize in breeding this type of experimental monkeys. Even so, there is still a shortage of supply and the market price is increasing day by day. Nowadays, the price is basically more than 100,000 yuan per monkey.
However, the experimental monkey in front of him was even more exaggerated, its value increased a hundred times, a full ten million!
A while ago, when Gu Haiming asked him for money to buy the so-called "Inco No. 1", he almost fainted when he heard the price.
After all, the three companies were all in the initial expansion stage during this period, and their capital chain was not very abundant. After taking out that 10 million, his pockets were basically empty.
But since he had already boasted to Gu Haiming that he would give him the money and the people, what else could he do? He couldn't just refuse to give him the funds the first time he asked for them. He could only grit his teeth and agree.
But now it seems that all of this is obviously worth it.
There is a reason why Intech Bio dares to call out this price. Intech No. 1 is not the healthy and docile experimental monkey required by conventional standards. On the contrary, it is a "sick" monkey.
Perhaps due to careful breeding and a little bit of luck, Intech Biotech has bred this experimental monkey with congenital immune disease. It can only stay in a sterile environment for its entire life. Once it leaves, it will be exposed to various threats such as bacterial infection and die quickly.
But this is actually good news for medical and biological experiments.
Not to mention the distant past, Inke No. 1 itself has immune deficiency, and its entire immune system is in an extremely weak or even shut down state. Any drug effects, side effects, and microbial infections can quickly take effect and expand in its body.
This means that any experiment can obtain the fastest and most intuitive results on Inke No. 1!
Most importantly, the absence of an immune system means that there will be no rejection reaction. This type of experimental monkey is the best biological experimental subject and can be used to cultivate cloned organs without regard to rejection reactions.
To put it simply, it's like grafting.
Because of the existence of the immune system and rejection reactions between normal organisms, any transplantation, even blood transfusion and skin grafting, is difficult and risky.
But plants are different. Many plants can survive perfectly when grafted onto each other, and Inke No. 1 is the perfect carrier that makes organ transplantation and cultivation as simple as grafting.
The entire second heart project has therefore become extremely simple, editing genes, adjusting stem cells, interfering with cell differentiation and proliferation, initial cultivation, and "grafting" them into the Intech No. 1 experimental monkey to cultivate and mature.
Well, it seems quite difficult, but it is not very difficult for Gu Haiming.
Although gene editing technology has not produced a convenient and efficient scalpel virus like Andra, there are actually many less convenient methods besides this, which can be accomplished using homologous recombination and modified nucleases, but most of them are limited to professional environments such as laboratories.
Genetic modification sounds very high-sounding, but in fact, both on Earth and Aquamarine Planet, a large number of its products have already flowed into the lives of ordinary people.
Let’s not talk about genetically modified fruits and vegetables for now. There are quite a few pets alone. The most common ones are those messy luminous fish, which are basically the products of fluorescent genes implanted.
This type of technology may not be mature enough, but it is definitely not mysterious.
It may be difficult to transform adult individuals, but it is possible to transform cloned embryos using ES cell targeting, EPS cell targeting, CRISPR/Cas9 and other technologies, and they can become infinitely mature.
“We live in the best of times and the worst of times.”
Listening to Gu Haiming's talk, Xia Xu couldn't help but feel a little emotional.
This is the best era. Countless technologies that should have existed only in fantasy seem to be just one step away.
But this is also the worst era, because this step may take dozens or even hundreds of years, or perhaps only when they grow old and die, will these technologies truly mature, be released, commercialized, and enter the public eye.
"Boss, what you said is not right. You should say that I was born in the worst era and you were born in the best era."
When Gu Haiming heard Xia Xu's sigh, his expression became even more complicated.
He is truly old.
Although he is only in his fifties, his aging is very obvious due to his mental and psychological problems, and he is not much different from a man in his seventies.
It is just like the melancholy that you were born before I was born, and I was born when you were already old.
It is clear that a magnificent era is foreseeable, but we don’t know how much time we have to wait, and whether we can witness it with our own eyes and participate in it in our lifetime.
"No, Mr. Gu, you are wrong too. We should say that we were all born in the best era."
Xia Xu looked at Gu Haiming's melancholy and lonely expression, and suddenly smiled.
After he came out of his sentimental indulgence, he realized that he was not on Earth now, but on Planet Aquamarine.
This is a world with countless 'plots'.
Since it is a world, there can't be only protagonists and supporting roles. There are many more forces and characters that may not even be called supporting roles, but are like background boards.
For example, in a certain plot, a villain organization has developed biotechnology such as biological modification, or a certain character has developed mechanical technology such as robots. There will be a series of derivative issues such as related equipment, materials, patents, researchers, and technology origins.
The more science and technology develops, the more refined the division of labor will be. Even a screw or nut may be developed and produced by a professional group. No matter how powerful an organization is, it is impossible to be completely self-sufficient.
Therefore, whenever an advanced product appears in the plot, it must mean a complete technology and industrial system, which means countless manufacturers, suppliers, and research and development institutions.
In fact, the Yingke No. 1 of Yingke Bio in front of us is the best example.
This special experimental monkey cannot be called black technology. It should be the product of intentional breeding and luck. However, it is of extraordinary significance in biological research, and there is definitely no such thing on the normal Earth in his memory.
In fact, even the spider-like predator he designed is like this. Many of the components used in it are specially customized from groups such as Spot Industries, and its performance far exceeds the commercial products on the market.
Whether it is Intech Biotech or Spot Industries, their names may not even be mentioned in each plot, but in reality, they are indispensable "background boards" for the plot to run reasonably.
It's just one plot. A piece of 'black technology' involves a large number of companies and institutions. How many will there be in the endless plots around the world
At present, these companies, manufacturers and R&D institutions have not shown up. One reason may be that they are relatively low-key, and various high-tech technologies are still in the experimental and R&D stages. They have not yet been truly released or commercialized, and the situation has not yet developed to that stage.
Secondly, these companies and organizations only serve as background boards behind the scenes. Not only are they not mentioned in the plot, but as a mere supplier or collaborator, their presence in the production process is also weak.
For example, you know the brand of your computer, but do you know the manufacturers behind the computer components
Except for a few manufacturers such as Intel and TSMC that are relatively well-known after the development of the Internet, 99% of the component manufacturers are probably little known.
Not to mention that behind the components there are smaller downstream components, a large number of patents and licensees involved in the components, important artificial materials such as photoresist, and basic raw materials such as gold, silver, and ferrosilicon. Each of them involves many huge things, but each of them is silent.
They are not well-known, but that does not mean they do not exist. Instead, they have already taken root in all directions throughout the entire era.
These existences, which are not even background boards in the plot, are in fact the biggest source of changes in reality.
Even if each of them has mastered something that is only slightly advanced in some aspect and cannot be called black technology at all, but when they are superimposed and influence each other, they are like countless giant butterflies that stir up a storm.
It can be said that even if all the plots end here, the trend of technological explosion is already rolling in and is unstoppable.
Born in this era, he doesn't need to wait too long! They don't need to wait too long!