Galactic Tech Empire

Chapter 440 Cloning Organs
6 month 20 day.

After a few days of consultations with Wang Zhiqiang, Colombo announced the completion of the "Agreement of Friendship and Cooperation".

As Ceylon joined the Galaxy Consortium, Tianhan Security quickly established a security base in northern Ceylon and stationed the Sixth Mecha Squad there.

With the establishment of this security base, the Galaxy Consortium has formed an area of ​​influence in the northeast of Tianzhuyang.

In this way, the safety of the Galaxy Consortium's waterway in Tianzhuyang has been greatly improved.

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Life Sciences Group, Australian Hive Base.

Huang Haojie is operating a stand-in robot to visit the laboratory.

In the prison-like rooms, there are people living in them, and these are death row prisoners and the like.

Through the one-way glass window, Huang Haojie observed these people. Some were sitting with numb eyes, some were shouting angrily, some seemed to be doing nothing, and some were watching TV.

"How is the condition of the experimental subject?" Huang Haojie asked Takahashi Kenji expressionlessly.

"Chairman, there are 32 subjects in total, and all of them are in good condition." Kenji Takahashi didn't feel any guilt about using these prisoners for experiments.

Huang Haojie glanced at the holographic file: "Why are there only 30 people left on the surviving list?"

"Two committed suicide." Takahashi Kenji spread his hands helplessly.

"Suicide?" Huang Haojie was noncommittal, and then carefully looked at their experimental reports. Due to the perfect organ cloning technology, the cloned organs produced by Takahashi Kenji and others did not find obvious excretion in the bodies of 32 subjects. abnormal phenomenon.

The so-called rejection phenomenon simply means that autologous tissues exclude non-self tissues and organs, which is a rejection phenomenon after transplantation.

The phenomenon of rejection is that organisms may have repulsion to non-self substances.If type A blood is transfused into a person with type B blood, the body with type B blood will produce antibodies, which is the phenomenon of rejection.

Rejection often produces very serious consequences, which can be life-threatening in severe cases.

In addition to blood transfusion, as well as bone marrow and even organ transplantation, the biological indicators of the two must be extremely similar, and slight differences may cause rejection after transplantation.

Mild rejection can be treated with drugs, and immunosuppressants are generally used to combat this reaction, while there is no effective solution for severe rejection, which often endangers the life of the transplant recipient.

The advantage of cloning organs is that there is almost no rejection, because the genes of the cloned organs themselves are exactly the same as the original organs.

However, everything is not absolute, and rejection may still occur. For example, a person’s lungs have lung cancer due to smoking for decades. When the lungs are replaced, the body may not be able to adapt to the new lungs. There is a possibility of rejection. possible.

Of course, this probability is quite small. Even if this kind of rejection occurs, it can be eliminated through running-in treatment.

"Takahashi, are you doing universal cloning?" Huang Haojie asked after turning to the last part of the experiment report.

Kenji Takahashi nodded: "Dr. Michel is in charge of this, mainly to see if it is possible to clone non-prototype organs through other cells."

"How was the experiment?" Huang Haojie didn't see the results in the experiment report, so he asked.

"Some cells can be completed, such as stem cells, and some cells have no results for the time being, such as heart cells and brain cells." Kenji Takahashi replied.

The so-called universal cell cloning means that any human organ or part can be successfully cloned by using any human cell.

"Take your time, don't rush for quick success, we have plenty of time to study these things slowly." Huang Haojie said as he walked.

Walking and walking, the two of them arrived at the artificial blood laboratory in charge of Zhao Zhangde. Huang Haojie stopped Takahashi Kenji who wanted to notify him, and he walked directly into the laboratory.

Inside a cloning survival warehouse, it was undergoing rapid changes, and soon turned bright blood red, but this was only red blood cells, and blood was composed of plasma and blood cells.

Plasma contains water, protein and low-molecular substances, and there are various electrolytes and organic compounds in low-molecular substances.Blood cells include red blood cells, white blood cells and platelets.The average lifespan of red blood cells is 120 days, that of white blood cells is 9-13 days, and that of platelets is 8-9 days.

The lifespan of blood cells and the retention time of blood are affected. At present, there are generally two preservation methods:

The first is the freeze-drying method [purify various components in fresh blood and quickly freeze-dry them in a special machine, which can preserve the corresponding blood components for one year, and use a special thawing solution to dissolve them within a specified time. , infused into the human body]
The second type of whole blood preservation [is the kind used in street blood donation carts, which is a special disposable blood preservation bag, which contains anticoagulant ingredients and nutrient solution.Can only store blood for one month]

In addition, in addition to the main components of plasma, blood cells, and genetic material, blood also contains various nutrients, such as inorganic salts, oxygen, and cell metabolites, hormones, enzymes, and antibodies.

All these things will have a certain impact on the research and development of artificial blood.

Zhao Zhangde, who was concentrating on the experiment, didn't notice that Huang Junjie came in, and was still doing the experiment on his own.

They are cloning red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets individually, and then adding other substances to create artificial blood.

After a while, Zhao Zhangde shook his head, the mouse in his hand showed obvious rejection.

"Is it a proportional problem, or something else." Huang Haojie asked.

Zhao Zhangde was stunned for a moment and said: "Uh...it turns out to be the chairman, and we have encountered some small troubles. This blood modulation ratio needs to be tested for a while."

"Is the rejection very serious?"

"It's not too serious. We have adopted the dry-freeze method, and we can produce universal blood soon. However, there are still many people whose blood cannot use universal blood." Zhao Zhangde explained.

Because a small number of human beings have panda blood, it is not cost-effective if the hospital has these blood types in stock. Zhao Zhangde and the others hope to create a rapid blood production machine.

In this way, the rejection phenomenon of universal blood can be solved. This is not just a problem of panda blood, because even if the blood type is the same, if the blood is not your own, there will be adverse reactions if you transfuse too much.

If a rapid blood production machine can be developed, it only needs to take a little blood from the patient, and then clone it in large quantities, and produce as much as is used. In this way, the hospital does not need to spend money to preserve the blood, and the patient does not need to find the corresponding blood type and worry about rejection. Phenomenon.

"Is it possible that after system integration, the produced blood is likely to have a difference in component concentration?" Huang Haojie knew the problem at a glance.

"Chairman Gao Jian, this is the problem. We are now discussing the relevant situation with the Computer Research Institute, hoping that they can adopt a suitable operation modulation system. After all, if this kind of thing goes wrong, it may really kill people." Zhao Zhangde nodded replied.

Huang Haojie encouraged Zhao Zhangde and others, and visited Michelle's general cell cloning laboratory. Her progress in this area was also so-so.

But now that organ cloning is almost practical, Huang Haojie has ordered the Life Science Group to announce the matter of organ cloning at an optional time, and recruit volunteers who are willing to participate in the transplantation of cloned organs.

(End of this chapter)