Soon, Richard saw Gutas' suicide method, which was... hunger strike.
Gutas was full of confidence in this, but Richard didn't take it seriously.
Then…
On the first day of the hunger strike, Gutas was alive and kicking.
On the second day of the hunger strike, everything went as usual for Gutas.
On the third day of the hunger strike, Gutas showed no change.
The fourth day of hunger strike.
Laboratory, in the main laboratory.
Gutas was tied firmly to the chair, and Richard took a certain amount of blood from the other person's arm and put it into a test tube.
Turning around, he inserted a special needle into Gutas' vein. Behind the needle was a leather tube and a weird device. Behind the leather tube was a glass bottle. The glass bottle contained a prepared solution with a concentration of 0.9%. Physiological saline, and 5% glucose solution.
Gutas watched Richard's operation motionless, his eyes filled with resentment.
Richard looked calm, even with a bit of a smile: "To be honest, you should have gone on a hunger strike two days earlier. After all, compared to eating, through infusion, you only need 600ml of normal saline plus 120ml of glucose to satisfy your needs. The daily needs of the human body.
Physiological saline can be prepared at will, just salt and water are required. Glucose may be a little troublesome, but it can be obtained by acid hydrolysis of some starch. No matter how you look at it, it's easier than feeding you food. Of course, this is a bit anti-human. I didn't intend to do this at the beginning, but you chose this method yourself, and I can't help it, right
By the way, this method of maintaining life cannot last too long, otherwise it will cause malnutrition. But it doesn’t matter. After a while, I can feed you liquid food through nasogastric feeding to supplement the nutrients that cannot be obtained through infusion. When the time comes, it will be more painful to have a gastric tube inserted, so you should be mentally prepared in advance. After all, this is your choice, right? "
Gutas was already a little desperate in his heart. He fully understood the truth: if he fell into Richard's hands, he would not die!
This... is absolutely true, no matter life or death, no one will be left behind!
shameless!
…
Many days passed in Gutas' despair.
Laboratory, main laboratory.
Under the illumination of candlelight, Richard quickly wrote the experimental notes with a quill.
"Shashasha..."
“…The experiment went well and the results were in line with expectations…”
"...The theory obtained is slightly different from the previous one, but the direction is correct..."
"... The extremely amplifying hormone extracted with difficulty was injected back into the test subject. The test subject produced an increase similar to the third peak in the previous experiment. At the same time, the second peak and the first peak were weakened. This shows that there is a phenomenon of negative feedback regulation.
That is, the medicine prompts the body to secrete 'maximum amplification hormone', and the 'maximum amplification hormone' stimulates the blood glands to secrete 'maximum amplification hormone'. While the 'maximum amplification hormone' is taking effect, it inhibits the 'maximum amplification hormone' and the drugs to continue to exert their effects... "
"...To sum up, the secrets of bloodline seeds and the mechanism of action of Spartan Heroic Potion are summarized as follows.
When ordinary people use the medicine: the medicine → regulates the human body, exerts the amplification effect, and releases the 'extreme amplification hormone' → terminates.
When the blood seeds activate power: blood glands → secrete 'ordinary amplifying hormones' → regulate the human body and exert the amplifying effect → terminate.
When the blood seeds activate the power and use the medicine: the medicine → regulates the human body, exerts the amplification effect, and releases the 'extreme amplification hormone' → stimulates the blood glands → secretes the 'extreme amplification hormone' → regulates the human body, exerts the third peak amplification effect , the ability to explode beyond the limits of the human body → terminate.
…”
After a pause, Richard's eyes became serious and he continued to write on the papyrus scroll as an experimental notebook:
"Through the above, the most valuable part of this theory is undoubtedly the use of extreme amplification hormone. The specific mechanism of action of this hormone on the human body is not yet clear, but its role is completely beyond imagination. It only requires a very small amount. It can transform an ordinary person into a 'Superman', so it is not an exaggeration to call it 'Blood of God'.
But how to use it is a huge problem.
First, it is difficult to extract. There are many links to overcome, the success rate is not high, the output rate is extremely low, the process is unstable, and the cost is high.
In addition, the sources are scarce and must be provided as experimental products with bloodline seeds, making large-scale production impossible. In fact, even small-scale production cannot do this. At present, it can only satisfy a very small number of laboratory tests and cannot be used in practice. "
"call-"
After exhaling, Richard stopped writing and thought.
The current research on Spartan Heroic Potion and Bloodline Seeds has reached a bottleneck. The biggest research result - "Blood of God" has been confirmed, but cannot be used.
It's like you finally guessed the lottery jackpot number, but you can't buy a lottery ticket because you lack two dollars.
So how to solve it
Richard rubbed his eyebrows vigorously.
How do hormones like this kind of "blood of God" solve problems on modern earth, and how do they achieve mass production
In modern areas, the most representative case should be...insulin.
Well, insulin.
Insulin is a protein hormone secreted by the islet beta cells in the pancreas. It is the only hormone in the human body that lowers blood sugar and is the main drug used to treat diabetes.
Therefore, insulin was discovered in 1921 and was used clinically in 1922 to treat diabetes—before insulin was discovered, diabetes was a terminal disease similar to cancer.
With the development of the times, the acceleration of urbanization and the extension of human life span, the number of patients with diabetes continues to increase - in the modern urban living environment, the prevalence of diabetes increases by 68% for every 10 years of age - therefore, the number of insulin requirements has skyrocketed.
Initially, people extracted insulin from animals, such as cows, sheep, pigs, etc. There are certain differences in the amino acid sequence and structure of these mammalian insulin molecules. Among them, pig insulin is the closest to human insulin. People obtain insulin from pigs to treat diabetes—this is the first generation of insulin.
However, porcine insulin, the first-generation insulin, is 1 to 4 amino acids different from human insulin, and is prone to immune reactions, subcutaneous fat atrophy or hyperplasia at the injection site, and insulin allergic reactions. And because of its high immunogenicity, it is prone to repeated hyperglycemia and hypoglycemia and insulin resistance. Most importantly, the yield is not very high due to the number of live pig pancreas.
So after decades of research, people developed the second generation of insulin.
The second-generation insulin is a highly pure synthetic human insulin expressed using genetically engineered (recombinant DNA) yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Pichia pastoris or Hansenula yeast), recombinant Chinese hamster ovary cells (CHO), etc. Its structure is the same as the insulin secreted by the human body itself, eliminating many of the defects of the first generation of insulin. And tissue cultured microorganisms or transgenic animals can be used for large-scale production and widely used to treat patients.
The subsequent third-generation insulin was also developed on the basis of the second-generation insulin. Genetic engineering technology is used to change certain structures on the insulin peptide chain to develop an insulin analog that is more suitable for the physiological needs of the human body. It can be used before meals and is called mealtime insulin or rapid-acting insulin.
Overall, the long and short of it is, the solution to this problem on modern Earth is... genetic engineering.
"Genetic engineering." Richard said in a concentrated voice, thinking about everything.