Chapter 410

Mammoth is a kind of woolly mammoth that lived in the Paleozoic era. It is a giant with an average height of more than 4 meters. The most impressive is its long mammoth horn, which is at least one or two meters long.

Henry was first slightly surprised to hear that they were going to revive the mammoth; Secondly, from a technical point of view, the project is feasible! The key to resurrecting mammoths is to get a complete set of DNA. But DNA is known to have a half-life. According to the calculation, it decays about once every 521 years, and every time it decays, the chemical bond between DNA will break half. Maybe in 1.5 million years, these chemical bonds will be broken completely beyond interpretation.

Mammoths lived between 4.8 million and 4 000 years ago, so it is possible to get a relatively complete mammoth DNA! Then using cloning technology, it is possible to revive mammoths!

In fact, compared with mammoths, people are more interested in reviving dinosaurs, the former overlord of the earth. But the tragedy is that dinosaurs could have been extinct 65 million years ago, with serious DNA damage and only a few genes. So it's almost impossible to resurrect dinosaurs. Of course, nothing can be done. The half-life of NDA is affected by many kinds of environment. Perhaps in some extreme environment, the half-life of DNA is extended, and people can get a more complete genome from it.

So far, many genes have been obtained from dinosaur fossils. Although they are far different from the complete dinosaur genes, their functions are not small. For example, using a variety of dinosaur genes to combine with other animals can create new dinosaur species. There are many close relatives of dinosaurs on the earth. If you choose these animals, the success rate of the experiment will be further improved!

Gene umbrella company has no plan to revive animals for the time being. Henry thinks that as long as the technology is excellent and he has the DNA of the animal, then reviving animals is just a matter for pediatrics. Gene umbrella has been working on human gene sequencing. Once the project is completed, the gene sequences of all animals and plants in the world will be sequenced.

Once we have mastered the genome sequences of all species in the world, we will have enormous wealth, which is more valuable than Jinshan and Yinshan!

With the development of biological gene technology, it is possible to synthesize genes and create new species. In fact, it's not difficult. After the 21st century, Craig Venter's research team announced that they had created the world's first "artificial gene".

Artificial genes are arranged and combined by chemical methods to form a new genome, and finally "assembled" into a variety of organisms. Cloning just uses the existing genetic information to "copy" life, which is totally different from artificial gene! The main research direction of gene umbrella company is to go directly to artificial genes.

If all the powerful genes on earth were integrated, what kind of life would be created? Will it have the eyes of an eagle, the ears of a wolf, the speed of a leopard and the power of a bear, just like the American cartoon "sheriff bresta"? Or much more powerful

If we use the "artificial gene" technology to create a new human gene, does it mean that human beings can create humans without parents in the biological sense, that is, completely artificial humans and genetically modified customized humans.

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Then Hawking interrupted Henry and asked, "Mr. Williams, your decision is..."

Henry raised his head and gave him a smile. "Of course, no problem. If they can revive mammoths, then I can build a mammoth park. I have to be soft handed just to collect tickets. Ha ha..."

"Mr. Williams, they are near my home now. Would you like to meet them?"

"Near your house? Well, you can call them here now! " Said Henry.

Hawking nodded, looked at his wife, and Elaine took his cell phone out of his black handbag and made a call.

Less than a minute later, a knock on the door rang out and two men came to Hawking's house. The one wearing a suit and glasses is SmalI, and the other with a beard is the Russian expert Lazarev. They said a simple hello to the Hawking couple and immediately looked at Henry with doubts on his face.

Hawking's wife Elaine smiles and introduces them to each other: "this is Mr. Williams, and the lady next to him is Princess Ulysses!"

When they heard this, they were surprised and said hello to Henry and Princess Ulysses. However, their eyes were full of doubts, because Henry's appearance was quite different from what they knew.

Henry laughed and explained: "after the assassination bombing, my face was severely burned. After being cured, my face changed... OK, let's not talk about that. I heard from Mr. Hawking, "are you going to revive mammoths?"

"Yes Smiley nodded, "although mammoths are extinct animals, the extinction time is not far away from us. It is entirely possible for us to find a complete set of DNA to revive this prehistoric beast!"

Henry nodded. "Well, that sounds good. Well, I'll invest 20 million US dollars in your activities, but after mammoth resurrected, I want more than 70% of the commercial income! "

Smiley and Lazarev looked at each other and both nodded. "No problem, Mr. Williams. We agree to your terms!"

"Well, I'll take the contract with me to the British branch of gene umbrella tomorrow, and they'll sign it with you."

"All right!" Smiley replied.

Henry nodded, took leave, and took Princess Ulysses back to Buckingham Palace.

The next morning, Smalley signed a contract with gene umbrella, which soon caused a sensation in Cambridge University.

It's shocking news that Smalley wants to revive mammoths at Cambridge University, but no one is willing to invest in this "spend in the mirror" project. The risk is too high. What if the money goes astray? As a result, the project has been stranded. But now, if investors are willing to give money, they can naturally start the plan to revive mammoth! The thought that mammoth, a prehistoric beast, might appear in front of the public, makes people feel excited.

This incident soon attracted the attention of the global media, and even the investors were dug out. As soon as it got to Henry, the fire got better. The media is getting more and more mysterious. It seems that mammoths will come back to life soon

A week later, smiley and Lazarev formed a 20 person team to explore the mammoth body. On the same day, Henry took them on a ship to the north of Siberia in Russia, and then Alaska in the United States... Only in the ice and snow can we find a relatively complete mammoth body.

Before long, the ship made a "roaring" sound, gradually moving away