Metamorphosis Marvel Genius

Chapter 9 The Extremis Virus Dilemma
"If telomeres are the clock of cell death, then telomerase is the hand that turns the clock back."

The Extremis virus represents immortality. No matter what kind of severe injury it suffers, it can be restored to its original state. It also represents immortality. The life span of cells can reach dozens or even a hundred times of the original, and the corresponding human life span can also reach tens or hundreds of times.

It is a super project that consumes a lot of manpower and material resources, comparable to the Apollo project, and requires the cooperation of various fields such as biochemistry, condensed matter physics, computers, polymer structures, and mechanical engineering.

Maya Hansen's Institute of Biology alone has a research team of more than 200 people, 80.00% of whom have a doctoral degree or above, a team composed of top talents.

Just like one of the by-products of the Extremis virus project, the ECM gel repair technology, in order to find the regulators of the specific expression of the extracellular matrix, the light medium used the cargo volume of [-] Steyr trucks.

The effect is also good. It is estimated that the demand for ECM gel repair technology will reach 50 billion within ten years.

However, it is still far away from Maya Hansen's goal. The ECM gel is equivalent to the leftovers of the Extremis virus project. According to Maya's guess, after being seriously injured, the virus project will first quickly fill the wound, including internal wounds and external wounds, and control In vivo cell loss followed by viral growth of cells in the injured area.

That is to say, up to now, virus engineering is only one step in a hundred steps.

Now the Extremis project has encountered a bottleneck.

Cheng also telomerase, failure also telomerase.

Theoretically speaking, the Extremis virus can be repaired indefinitely. However, during the repair process, the cells proliferate indefinitely, and the boundary with cancer cells will be very blurred. If the proliferation is not controlled in the end, the "virus" will really become a virus.

Speaking of this, people like Garcia and others are already very satisfied, expressing the prospect of the Extremis virus project and the current research difficulties encountered.

Dr. Hall nodded. The simpler the presentation, the better. The simpler it means the deeper your understanding. As for what Anna said above, it has reached the undergraduate level of bioengineering. Passing by, it is similar to a farmer's uncle planting rice. As long as you can distinguish between rice and wheat, and you can transplant seedlings and fertilize, you can graduate.

Like Professor Connors of the State University of New York in the United States, he also held his chin and commented on Maya Hansen’s thoughts with Norman Osborn from time to time. He also thought that Anna’s narration was remarkable, and then he watched Anna turn On the page, an exponential vector formula popped up on the screen: "This is already a polymer simulation technology. It should be that Maya Hansen hopes to use polymers to simulate the process of recruiting telomerase from yeast telomeres."

Connors also only understood the general idea, not knowing the specific meanings.

"It is now calculating the four-level coiled structure, which is beyond the scope of undergraduates. It uses computer simulation technology, the basis of statistical physics, mean field theory, and practical applications in several disciplines."

Anna was also confused, mainly because when she read the PPT before, she didn't look carefully, and didn't realize that what Maya put on it was the first draft: "This one seems to be free enthalpy, and the other one is entropy."

Anna's head turned rapidly, and the books she had read in the past quickly turned in her mind. According to the theory of functional variation, all problems can be boiled down to finding the smallest function under restricted conditions. What is the restricted structure and the representation of the smallest function? What is it again.

Constraints, appearances - Maya studies molecular structures, that is constrained.

Anna can feel the excitement at the end of the neuron cell, hundreds of millions of presynaptic membranes are depolarized, the electrically gated calcium channel opens, binds to proteins, and then the fusion of synaptic vesicles and presynaptic membranes suddenly splits, Like fireworks in the mind, there is a quantum release of neurotransmitters.

A spark of thought emerges.

Anna finally understood: "The first structure is limited, both the inhibitory structure and the activation structure must be exposed, and the second bipolar value is limited, the mixing entropy is the largest, and the pipeline that represents the cell repair speed penetrates the fastest. Find out under the above conditions Quaternary coil structure of telomerase."

A formula shows the core idea of ​​Extremis Virus.

In the audience, Garcia explained the formula to Dr. Hall: "The formula newly listed by Maya, published in the journal CELL, serves as a conceptual guiding formula for computer simulation and biological research, and is also the direction of future research."

Dr. Hall is engaged in physics. As soon as he encounters vectors, matrices, and tensors, he knows that they are computer calculations: "The equation is a bit difficult to solve. If it is purely calculated by computer, the calculation amount is astronomical."

For nonlinear problems, it is still a three-body coupled system. The only reliable method now is the violent enumeration method. According to estimates, using the cluster of Lincoln Laboratory to solve reliable data needs to be after 1000 years.

However, after all, it points out the direction for research.

Even Ana thought Maya was a genius.

Unbeknownst to her, this formula is based on the basic formula given by Tony Stark, which Maya traded for a one-night stand.

Tony Stark looked at the screen, but he had no memory at all. It was all in 1999. He remembered Maya Hansen because Maya was like a wild horse running wildly on the bed, which was too different from her usual professor.

Black lace, sheer, no sponge—that's all Tony Stark remembers.

Besides, he has forgotten whether he is in Barcelona or Sweden.

The female doll in front of him, with the curvature of the upper and lower jaws, Tony Stark frowned and thought hard, feeling that the more he looked, the more he looked like a person, super familiar.

Then the IQ of the young girl, Tony Stark felt that a fool like Maya Hansen would never be able to give birth to a super genius.

"Hell, are you here to divide my family property?" Tony Stark rested his chin and calculated how many shares he should give, which is equivalent to US dollars and how many billions: "The illegitimate daughter also wants to share my family property, just dream."

Once this hole is opened, Tony Stark feels that there will be ten more mothers holding their children outside the iron fence the next day: "If it is a super genius, it may be acceptable."

On the stage, Anna finished speaking on the last topic, renormalized and drew a general curve, and the presentation officially ended.

There was silence.

Until Dr. Hall applauded, then Professor Selvig, and then everyone in the audience, even Professor Connors with one hand gestured for encouragement with one hand.

Anne Weaver, the dean of SHIELD Academy, ran up to the stage and hugged Annabelle down.

Annabel waved to the audience, and there was another burst of thunderous applause. During the applause, Dr. Hall gave Anna a thumbs up.

In fact, Anna's speech in the first half of the term can only be said to be quite satisfactory. However, considering the status of a 7-year-old girl, being well-regulated is already the biggest violation of common sense. What's more, the explanation of the core formula is not much, but every word catches the point. Fully understand the nature of Extremis virus.

The host joked: "Dean Weaver, you stole my business."

I don't know who disliked it, Anna muttered in her stomach.

"Don't forget to type your contact email on the screen. I believe many people are willing to contact the young genius Anna." The host said that he felt that after today, many scientists would become interested in the topic of child abduction.

The host is happy to see it happen.

Anna typed the private mailbox on the keyboard.

(End of this chapter)