Hogwarts: Becoming a god from reselling fresh food

"Nicholas Flamel is an alchemist. Your topic should not involve alchemy." Murphy said.

Murphy glanced at Ron as he spoke. Speaking of which, you have collected so many Dumbledore's wizard cards, but haven't you ever noticed Nicolas Flamel's name on them?

Harry just took one look at it and still had some impression, so you just ate the chocolate frog, right?

But it’s normal to think about it. Wizard cards can’t be used to play cards, so it’s not surprising that no one read the words on them.

After sending a few little wizards away, Murphy was about to go have some dinner when he suddenly saw Ichika, and immediately felt like vomiting.

He held his chest and stood there in shock and confusion for a few seconds. It wasn't until he took a few deep breaths that his vision returned to normal again.

"What's going on? There should be no gastric or nervous system lesions during the last checkup..."

Having no appetite for anything to eat, Murphy was going to go back to his room first and maybe do some checks on himself.

He has a traceless stretching box, which contains several medical laboratories built with the laboratory specifications of the Magic Institute. Although he cannot use high-precision equipment due to the influence of Hogwarts magic, he can still do some tests with simple means. no problem.

It was only a few minutes' walk from the classroom to his office. The initial wave of discomfort seemed to have passed. He walked most of the way safely and just breathed a sigh of relief. But just as he climbed the stairs to the fifth floor, another wave of discomfort hit him. Waves of pain surged over him, nearly knocking him down.

As soon as he entered the door, he leaned against the door weakly, as if tearing pain was rising from his chest and abdomen, accompanied by waves of familiar fatigue, dragging him downwards, making him unable to stand for a while. Can't do it anymore.

This feeling is very familiar to him, almost exactly the same as half a year ago!

With trembling hands, he took out an injection from the space ring and stuck it on his neck.

After a while, the terrible feeling of weakness gradually subsided. Murphy took a deep breath, sat on the chair, and reached out to wipe his forehead.

In just a moment, he actually broke out in a cold sweat.

"Why so fast..."

I originally thought that it would take several months for the various symptoms to relapse, but now it seems that the situation is more critical than I thought.

The transformation and extreme magic resonance caused by the battle with the shaman put a greater burden on the body than originally expected.

This already fragile body may be on the verge of collapse.

No, something must be done.

You have to stabilize your physical condition first.

At least, let it hold out until we get a real solution.

After resting for a while, Murphy took out the traceless stretching box from the corner, but as soon as he opened the box, he thought about it and gave up.

It is of no use. Without solving the fundamental problems of aging and genetic disorders, treating headaches, headaches, and feet will only be a waste of time.

Thinking of this, Murphy contacted Andrew Tuke of the Transformation Pathway Group of the Magic Research Institute through Crow.

There are still many puzzle pieces missing on the path to the Philosopher's Stone, and now the only thing he can rely on is science.

"Andrew, how is the research on vampire true blood going? Is there any way its cell repair ability can be applied to ordinary humans?"

The Transfiguration Research Group previously discovered that the repair ability of vampire body cells is far stronger than that of ordinary humans, and its maximum number of divisions is more than ten times that of ordinary humans. (Volume 4, Chapter 3, Basic Principles of Soul Seed).

This ability will undoubtedly play a great role in alleviating Murphy's symptoms at the moment. Therefore, in September, Murphy invested a lot of manpower in this direction.

By this time his health was deteriorating and he desperately needed results in this area.

"Director," Andrew faced a crow, unable to see Murphy, with a strange expression, "We have initially identified several genes that may be related to vampires' super DNA repair ability. Through the CRISPR you gave - After grafting Cas9 gene editing technology into mouse cells, we observed that the lifespan of mouse cells increased by about 30%, and the number of divisions increased from an average of about 12 times to about 15 to 16 times."

"However, because there is still a huge gap in ability compared to vampires, we suspect that we have not yet found the most critical gene."

Increase the number of cell divisions by about 30%?

To be honest, this result is much better than Murphy expected. "Is there any way to apply it to the human body?"

"It is still too dangerous to directly insert heterologous genes into human cells," Andrew said. "So we plan to achieve therapeutic effects through harmless virus infection."

Murphy nodded slightly. With his physical condition, he didn't dare to mess too much. The more invasive the method, the more unpredictable the consequences would be. This is why he preferred the "elixir of life".

"What about the molecular biological mechanisms of anti-aging?" Murphy asked.

Anti-aging at the genetic level is difficult to operate, but if we can figure out which molecules and which channels are used to achieve this function, we may be able to use drugs directly for less invasive treatments.

Andrew shook his head, "Sorry, Director, we don't have much idea about the mechanism in this area yet."

This is also reasonable.

It has not been more than a year or two since humans have wanted to live forever. Research on the internal mechanisms of aging has never stopped, but until Murphy was reborn, Muggle science had not made a huge breakthrough in this area.

There are many "immortal species" in the biological world that Muggle scientists can refer to, such as various jellyfish, bacteria, naked mole rats, etc., but few mechanisms that can actually be used in the human body have been discovered.

What makes vampires a better research subject than the above-mentioned creatures is that they are transformed from humans, and most of their genetic information and cellular mechanisms have not changed much.

But even so, it is unrealistic to find a perfect anti-aging path in a short time.

"Then let's use the way you talk about it first. Do you have any specific ideas?"

"The demonic nature of the werewolf virus is ideal," Andrew said. "It can be controlled by controlling the level of magic in the body, but it is too toxic and has the characteristics of forced deformation, which is very detrimental to your treatment."

Murphy's condition is semi-public in the Magic Research Institute, and basically all researchers who can be useful in improving his condition know about Murphy's condition.

He wasn't worried that someone would take advantage of this to do something detrimental to him.

The Mind Seed Magic Agreement has eliminated this possibility.

"However, we have found that there are technical precedents for adenovirus to be used as a transgenic vector. Adenovirus has a good capacity, can accommodate more foreign genes, and has a mild immune response. We are currently modifying the adenovirus and expect to launch it within this month. Animal experiment."

"By the way, Director, Funes Bachman and Omid Abbott want to talk to you." Andrew said as if he had thought of something.

Those two mad scientists?

Murphy agreed, and after a while, two scientists came to Crow, "Director, we heard about Andrew's genetically modified experiment. We have an idea."

"Tell me about it." Murphy said through the fairy gold coin.

"Do you remember what we said about the ability to control the behavior of viruses and bacteria through mind seeds?"

Murphy frowned, "Remember."

"Simply using viral vectors for transgenic treatment is spontaneous and has low controllability," Funes said.

"For your treatment, if you use a non-replicating viral vector, it is difficult to do systemic treatment, and if you use a replicating viral vector, it is unpredictable what side effects may occur."

"Therefore, we thought that perhaps, we could use the seeds of the mind to screen and control the virus. After transforming the virus into a vector with cell repair capabilities through genetically modified technology, we would then use the seeds of the mind to give it a goal, or behavioral logic, so that It works exactly as we want it to.”

Murphy pondered for a while.

Can spiritual seeds control viruses?

When they first started researching soul seeds, these two people had put forward similar ideas. At this time, they just limited the function of the virus to repairing cells.

In fact, Murphy has already done this by using mind seeds and viruses to work together.

The transformation mechanism of the werewolf mercenaries is constructed by combining the werewolf virus and the soul seed. Murphy can control the transformation state of werewolves through the mind seed.

It's just that the spiritual seed is planted in each Moga werewolf, not the virus.

He had always been wary of using spiritual seeds on things as small as viruses and bacteria, but this time, he was a little shaken.

What if you really need to use this thing to save your life?

It has truly turned into a T virus, and you have to use it when you have no choice but to use it.

"I'll go back after the viral vector is produced," Murphy said.

Only he can do the soul seed now, and only he can do this experiment.