For the next nearly half a month, Xia Xu spent time in a special ward in the hospital. Cui Xinghua and Gu Haiming monitored the changes in his second heart and collected his physical data throughout the whole process.
During this period, Chen Leyao came to visit him many times, and Tang Youxin also took leave to come back several times. Only after seeing that his health had stabilized and recovered and there was nothing abnormal were they finally relieved.
Normally, it takes at least a month to recover from heart surgery to the point where one can be discharged from the hospital. If it is slow, it may take two or three months. However, his recovery speed was actually much faster than normal.
After storing K protein for two days, the second heart's strengthening mode begins to operate continuously at a low intensity, and the body spontaneously mobilizes nutrients to strengthen the body.
This strengthening process actually also involves a repair process, just like physical exercise causes muscle strain, which is then repaired and strengthened by the body. The strengthening mode of the second heart also stimulates the body's self-healing function.
Of course, it is definitely not as powerful as Wolverine, and it is not even as good as a broken-tailed gecko, but it is still extremely efficient in quickly healing some sutured wounds with the help of modern medicine.
Sixteen days passed like this, almost half a month, and Xia Xu was able to be discharged from the hospital, but just in case it was best to avoid strenuous exercise.
Therefore, he has already gone through the discharge surgery today, but he did not give up the originally scheduled one-month vacation. He plans to recuperate in Decheng for another half a month, and by the way, plan the main direction of Xinghai Biology's next stage.
Needless to say, as for Gu Haiming, 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, and all functions are operating normally.
The combination of the Heart of Rage and Cui Xinghua's blood circulation transformation plan can almost be said to be a mature human body transformation technology. In theory, anyone with a K protein carrier physique can undergo the transformation.
Unfortunately, there are still some flaws in terms of universality. The efficacy of the Heart of Fury is essentially based on the special physique of K protein carriers, and the target audience is relatively rare. In addition, the cultivation of the heart requires the use of Intech Bio's experimental monkeys, and the cost alone starts at tens of millions.
However, these are all based on considerations of the commercial product category. From a functionality perspective, they are already perfect enough at present, and we can gradually improve universality and reduce manufacturing costs in the future.
However, these tasks can be handed over to other researchers under him. It would not be cost-effective to let a top genetic engineer like Gu Haiming focus on this.
There was no suspense about the next stage of the task that Xia Xu arranged for him, which was naturally the giant gland and related information brought back this time.
The information about the giant gland he got from Gardner was not complete, and it could even be said to be only a small part of it. But sometimes, technology and results cannot be confused.
"So, we can create a giant test subject by directly cloning this part of the brain gland sample?"
Xia Xu, who had just been discharged from the hospital and returned to Xinghai Biology's underground laboratory, received an unexpected good news after learning about the progress of the giant gland research from Gu Haiming.
Naturally, he had handed over the information and samples of the giant gland to Gu Haiming when he came back, so during the half month he was in the hospital, Gu Haiming and his team not only tested the condition of the second heart, but also analyzed and studied that information.
"In theory, yes."
Gu Haiming nodded slightly and continued, "The brain gland samples you brought back should be the latest samples they are studying and seem to have had successful cases.
Although I cannot re-mix it from the beginning due to missing data, it is not difficult to directly use cloning technology to replicate this alienated brain gland. I will find a cloning solution after trying for a while."
Cloning is actually not a word that is very far away from human beings.
I believe most people have read the story of Dolly the cloned sheep in biology books. As early as 1996, humans had completed the cloning of sheep using somatic cell nuclear transplantation technology.
Of course, the textbooks say that Dolly died early because of a cloning defect.
However, what the textbooks did not say is that only Dolly died, while her sisters and offspring who were cloned at the same time, as well as the mice, fish, pigs, etc. that various biologists tried to clone later, are all alive and well.
Dolly's death was simply an isolated case.
If there were no ethical and legal concerns, even cloning humans would not be that difficult nowadays.
Of course, compared with cloning a whole living organism, cloning individual organs, especially cloning directly using already 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 Violence is genetically modulated, its cultivation process is actually no different from cloning.
By using the induced pluripotent stem cell technology, which appeared in the early 2000s and won the Nobel Prize in 2012, even differentiated cells such as skin and blood cells can be restored into pluripotent stem cells.
As the name suggests, pluripotent stem cells 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 appropriate molecular signals.
Based on this, and with the help of various technologies to provide a growth environment, these cells can spontaneously develop into tissues and organs according to genetic programs, so not to mention the heart, even the brain can theoretically be cloned.
So, it's not just Planet Aquamarine. If they really want to stir up trouble, even the biologists on Earth have great 'potential'.
Of course, the above is just a simple description. The actual situation of organ cloning is definitely more complicated.
For example, looking for molecular signals that induce differentiation. For example, it is difficult for an organ to develop normally alone and requires corresponding culture and regulation programs. Induced pluripotent stem cells can only differentiate into corresponding individual organs but lack nutrients such as blood vessels and blood to supply tissues and organs and cannot grow.
However, these are obviously not big problems for Gu Haiming. As long as he is willing to spend time and energy on research, the difficulty will be only slightly greater than cultivating a violent heart.
"Dr. Gu, you said that this is theoretically true, so there should be a "but" after this statement, right?"
Xia Xu was not overwhelmed by Gu Haiming's good news.
"Uh, ahem, well… well, there is a but."
After being exposed, Gu Haiming coughed awkwardly twice and said, "The data about the giant gland is from the data you brought back, so I can't know the real situation unless we also conduct human experiments, but this is also..."
The worry on Gu Haiming's face was obvious.
The giant gland is not the violent heart that he personally formulated and cultivated. Xia Xu only brought back a very small part of the research data.
With this little information, he didn't have any in-depth understanding of the giant gland. Even some of the known experimental data were obtained through the research data of an illegal organization.
No, they can't even be called research data. They are just temporary records that have not been formally archived. God knows whether the experimental data recorded in them are reliable or whether they have been verified.
If you want to verify the above data, you can only use the current giant gland samples to conduct biological experiments.
He wanted to conduct in-depth research on the giant gland, but due to the lack of real research and development data, he could only conduct biological experiments.
However, this gland belongs to the human brain gland. Even if it has been alienated, it can only be adapted to humans.
However, applying such a completely unknown experimental sample, which is likely to cause various deformities in the human body, and whose technical details are not well understood, directly to human experiments would be tantamount to mismanaging human lives.
"Forget about the human experiments. We are not in a hurry. If it doesn't work, we can study it slowly. Or I can try to get more perfect technology."
Xia Xu couldn't be as cold-blooded as Gardner. Acting like that would only alienate Gu Haiming, Cui Xinghua and others. Therefore, he naturally wouldn't agree to such a thing. He shook his head decisively and then continued to ask, "Let's put the giant gland aside for now. What about the epiphyseal restart technology? Is there anything in there?"