Chapter 808

With little hesitation, Johnson agreed to cooperate with the experiment.

Although Zhao Shuxuan, a Chinese researcher, stressed to him that the relevant clinical experiments have only been done twice in mice, and that there may be some risks when they are directly applied to human body, it is the only way for Johnson to return to the earth.

If he can't get rid of his Martian bacteria, he may have to stay on the Moon Palace all his life, be isolated from the earth's ecosystem, or even be abandoned.

It's hard for him who has a family on earth and is waiting for his return.

Sitting at the side of the medical bed, I waited quietly for the medicine prepared by two researchers in the medical room. Not long ago, the researcher from China who had brought him here came with three capsules and a small bag of water.

"Eat it."

He took three capsules from Zhao Shuxuan's hand. Johnson didn't hesitate to throw them into his mouth. Then he took a sip of the straw containing the water and swallowed it with the water.

Sitting by the medical bed and waiting for five minutes, Johnson looked left and right a little restlessly, and saw that all the people in the laboratory were looking at themselves, so he said awkwardly.

"Well, that's it?"

"I don't know," Zhao Shuxuan shook his head. "It's still an hour or two before I know. I suggest you lie down for a while."

Johnson: May I ask where those capsules came from? Don't get me wrong, I'm just curious... "

Professor Leslie and Professor Zhao Shuxuan looked at each other and looked at him with strange expressions.

“…… Knowing too much is not necessarily a good thing for you. "

"It's about secrets?" Johnson guessed

"That's not it," Professor Leslie shrugged. "It's just At present, only one person has an immune response to the bacterium. "

Johnson frowned and asked, "so?"

With a light cough, Professor Leslie went on, "and the bacteria live mainly in the esophagus, especially in the large intestine..."

Johnson's face changed in a flash.

"Shetter It's not... "

"That's right, Shetter Or Shetter's extract, but I think there should be many differences. "

Johnson stared at him with murderous eyes and asked difficultly, "are you sure this thing Can it work? "

"I I'm not sure, "Professor Leslie smiled awkwardly," but there's something you have to try to know, right? "

Johnson also wanted to say something, but at this time, a feeling of sleepiness hit the brain, and could not help but stretch out his index finger and press it on the brow.

Aware of his situation, Professor Leslie and Professor Zhao Shuxuan's eyes flashed a surprise.

With the last vestige of consciousness, Johnson vaguely heard the conversation.

"God Our conjecture is correct! "

"The antibodies that kill the x-0172 bacteria are indeed in the extract of colonist III's metabolites!"

“…… Report the success of the research. "

“……”

……

Almost at the same time that the researchers on the Moon Palace completed the experiment.

Jinling Institute of higher learning is far away on the earth.

Lu Zhou, who has been paying close attention to the progress of the experiment, immediately came to the recently established x-0172 bacteria special laboratory after learning the news of the success of the experiment, and asked Professor Liu Zuobing, the person in charge here, about the research on the Moon Palace.

"How are the two colonists doing now?"

"We slept soundly. We tried all kinds of physical means, such as low temperature, overheating, static electricity and so on. We couldn't wake them up," Professor Liu continued after pushing his glasses. "Generally speaking, the experiment was quite successful, which is to verify our conjecture. From the samples of metabolites, spores were observed in the metabolites of the two colonists. "

"That is to say, Trevor's body did produce antibodies to the x-0172 bacteria," Lu asked at once

"In theory," Professor Liu nodded, but then sighed, "but now the trouble is that even if we find antibodies that can remove part of the x-0172 bacteria in the colonists, it's difficult to kill the spores through antibodies."

Spore, also known as endospore, is the dormant body of bacteria, and also known as the most tenacious organism in the biological world. It has outstanding performance in anti heat, anti chemical drugs and anti radiation.

In the case of Clostridium botulinum, it takes 5 to 9.5 hours for the spores to be killed in boiling water. However, the radiation resistance of Bacillus megaterium is 36 times stronger than that of E.coli cells. Even under the direct irradiation of ultraviolet and high-energy rays, it can still maintain the original life form for a long time.The free-living spores have no obvious metabolism, only keep the potential germinating force, so they are also called hidden life. Once the environment is suitable, the spores can germinate into vegetative cells at any time.

To make an inappropriate analogy, it's like a dehydrated vegetable bag of instant noodles thrown into boiling water.

Therefore, if the spores in the colonists can not be completely killed, it will be sooner or later when the situation is good.

The atmosphere in the laboratory fell into silence.

Staring at the paper from the Moon Palace on the computer screen, Professor Liu Zuobing fell into deep thought.

From the dignified view of the old professor, Lu Zhou can clearly feel that it is not easy to solve this problem. Even if we integrate the world's top biomedical research and development forces, it is not easy to find a solution.

Lu Zhou: "about spores Is there no good way? "

"If there is one, we have tried it," Professor Liu shook his head. "International experts have held meetings and discussed it for several times. At present, the more reliable idea is probably intermittent sterilization, which continuously activate spores and then kill them. But it also involves a more troublesome problem. We may be able to reduce the content of x-0172 bacteria in these colonists by repeatedly tossing and turning, but it is very difficult to eliminate all of them. "

Lu Zhou: "like cancer cells that have already spread?"

Professor Liu: "although it's not very appropriate, there's no big problem with such a metaphor."

After listening to Professor Liu's statement, Lu Zhou thought for a while and suddenly asked.

"What about extracts that contain antibodies? Is there any in our lab? "

Professor Liu pointed to the sealed glass bottle on the table.

"Right here What's the matter? "

Lu Zhou: "can I take one back for research?"

Professor Liu Zuobing took a strange look at Lu Zhou and said, "if you can get there, you can Although I don't think it makes sense. "

He didn't believe in the strength of the land boat, but he didn't think it was meaningful at all.

It's just a metabolic extract. There's no x-0172 bacteria in it.

Even if we really want to study, we shouldn't study with this thing, right?

Lu Zhou smiled and said.

"It doesn't make sense until you try."