The imprint of the universe and the return of all things

Section 2. Progress

At this moment, there was a knock on the door outside the room.

Professor Doudna said outside the door:"Prophet, are you awake? Reina and I have important things to report to you."

Hill opened the door and let Professor Doudna and Reina in Inside the room, sitting on two chairs next to the bed.

Seeing that Hill was pale and haggard, Reina asked Hill,"Is it my imagination, or does your face really look bad? Is there something wrong with you?"

Hill said slowly:"I had a dream. This dream made me feel very uncomfortable."

Reina said in surprise:"Dream? Are you kidding me? You are the most rational person I have ever seen. You It's so strange that he would be obsessed with a dream."

Hill shook his head slightly and said thoughtfully:"No, that was not an ordinary dream. Maybe...it was me and Galen. Some kind of mapping between personality consciousness."

Reina said curiously:"Really. What kind of dream was that? It sounds interesting. Why don't you tell us about it."

Hill considered that although Dude Professor Na and Reina are not psychologists, but they are experts in biomedicine after all and have rich medical knowledge. Discussing the dream with them may help him clarify his thoughts, so they put the dream The content was narrated to both of them.

After hearing this, Professor Doudna thought for a while and said:"'Prophet,' according to your description, it sounds like there is some kind of consciousness boundary that has been separating you and Galen's personality before. The changes have caused the"territory" of your two personality consciousnesses to intersect. Moreover, Galen's personality also tried to forcibly invade the"territory" of your personality consciousness."

Hill said:"I think so too. But What puzzles me is why this phenomenon occurs."

Professor Doudna said:"This may be because your brain trauma has not fully recovered, or you have recovered but left sequelae, causing you to There is a certain degree of organic mental disorder of the brain. In addition, since Galen's personality met Raj, Galen's mental state has also changed and become more active and proactive, making your personality very different from Galen's personality. The control power is weakened. Therefore, under the combined effect of these two aspects, such a phenomenon occurs."

Hill felt that Professor Doudna's analysis was reasonable, and said solemnly:"This is a dangerous state and cannot be avoided. If this continues. Is there any way you can solve it?"

Professor Doudna said:"Generally when encountering this kind of symptom, the best way is to take some antipsychotic drugs to relieve it. But because you are originally DID (dissociative disorder) Identity disorder) patients, the use of antipsychotic drugs may have side effects on your personality, and the results may be counterproductive. Therefore, the risk of this method is too great. For now, the more feasible method is to take a large amount of some neurotrophic drugs Drugs are used to promote the recovery of the sequelae of brain trauma in order to achieve the effect of eliminating this symptom. However, frankly speaking, the effect will not necessarily be great. But at least there will be an improvement. I will check the relevant information later and take a look. Can we find a better treatment?"

Hill frowned and said,"Okay, let's do this first. We need to do it as soon as possible. I'm worried that the situation will get worse."

Professor Doudna said,"Okay, I'll wait. Just ask Breslin to help purchase some neurotrophic drugs, and then go to the school to check the information."

Hill said:"By the way, you just said you have important things to report to me, what is that?"

Lei Na said proudly:"A piece of good news. Since you woke up, Professor Doudna and I can finally stop worrying about those messy things and devote all our minds to research. Therefore, our research these days The progress has been rapid, greatly exceeding expectations. Just now, we finally completed the pre-clinical research work on special gene transplantation and successfully developed the first batch of"mutation evolution agents"! Now, we just need to arrange a group of volunteers to come over , it can be used for clinical trials."

Hill said:"Well, this is indeed good news. However, according to your estimates, what level of effectiveness will it achieve in clinical trials? How high is its safety? ?

Lena admitted frankly:"This is an unprecedented new drug, and it was developed in such a short period of time. Its effectiveness of 10% is considered very good. As for safety, let alone it. It has an extremely high risk of"off-target" and is prone to rejection reactions. Volunteers are likely to suffer serious side effects or even die as a result. But no matter what, this clinical trial is just the beginning. We will continue to improve it in the future to continue to improve its effectiveness and safety.

Hill said:"Scheduling clinical trials is not a problem. There are tens of thousands of applicants in Silicon Valley vying to be volunteers in this clinical trial." The real problem is to improve the effectiveness and safety of the"mutation evolution agent" as soon as possible. If my guess is correct, the US military may launch a full-scale attack on us within two days. According to the current objective conditions, due to the huge disparity in strength between the two sides, no matter what tactics I adopt, it is impossible for the"Evolutionary Army" to resist the US attack for more than two weeks. Therefore, it is necessary to use the"mutant evolution agent" to create a"new type of human" army with no less than a thousand people within two weeks to have a chance to turn defeat into victory.

However, the effectiveness and safety of"mutation evolution agents" in clinical trials are too low, which will scare away applicants and shrink them. This will not only cause the number of"new human" soldiers to fall short of expectations, but will also cause the soldiers of the"evolutionary army" to lose the motivation to continue fighting, and even the entire army will fall apart and lose without a fight. Therefore, whether the effectiveness and safety of the"mutation evolution agent" can be improved in a short period of time will be the key to success or failure."

Leina shrugged and said,"We didn't think too much about it. We just followed the normal new drug research and development process. In fact, there is no way to quickly improve the effectiveness and safety of"mutation evolution agents". It's just that Kajol's body is used as a test.

But if Raj knew that his beloved sister was being used as a"white mouse", that guy would probably go crazy and do something crazy and stupid. Hill said nonchalantly:"Don't worry about Raj's problem. I will find a way to solve it on Raj's side." Tell me how you plan to use Kadron to improve the effectiveness and safety of the"mutation evolution agent"."

Rena said:"We have done HLA (human leukocyte antigen) matching on Raj and Kajol before, and found that the HLA of their brother and sister are completely matched. Therefore, if the"mutation evolution agent" is injected into Kajol's body, Kajol's body should not have a rejection reaction. As long as there are no"off-target" effects, the special gene will work well after being transplanted into Kajol and be perfectly integrated into Kajol's body. Then, we will use Kajol implanted with a special gene as a research subject, collect clinical data from her, and then further adjust the Cas9-encoding gene and guide RNA in the"mutation evolution agent" based on these clinical data. The effectiveness and safety of the mutation evolution agent have been improved."

Professor Doudna added:"But in this process, once an"off-target" effect occurs, the body of Kajol, who is already in a state of brain death, will If a malignant genetic mutation occurs, it is really impossible for her to survive."

Hill said:"Under the current situation, Kajol's life and death is not an issue worth considering. There is no need to worry about this. Lena , your idea is good, just follow this idea."

Reina said:"Since you said so, then there is no problem."

Feilu's 18th anniversary brand upgrade gives back to readers! Recharge 100 and get 500 VIP points!

Grab a deposit now (activity time: August 10th to August 20th)