Chapter 158 Experiment

Professor Connors has been studying serum that cures cancer recently. Almost all animals in the world are likely to get cancer.

It is just a rumor that sharks will not get cancer. Although the tumor suppressor factors in cartilage make sharks very unlikely to get cancer, they can still get a deadly cancer called melanoma.

Elephants are also less likely to get cancer than ordinary animals because the TP53 gene in elephants can detect the integrity of DNA and promptly repair genes that produce cancer cell mutations and eliminate abnormal cells.

The only animal with zero cancer incidence is the naked mole rat. So far, no cancer case has been found in naked mole rats.

The naked mole rat genome contains many tumor suppressor genes, such as the ARF gene, and lacks genes related to cancer. The naked mole rat genome has a high copy number of genes responsible for repairing DNA, and the ribosome can produce proteins with basically zero errors, and there are a large number of molecular chaperone proteins that help other proteins fold correctly. These make the genome and cell state of naked mole rats extremely stable.

Secondly, there is a hyaluronic acid polymer in naked mole rat cells. This molecule triggers a particularly powerful mechanism, "early contact inhibition". Once the cells "feel too crowded", they will stop dividing. Even if there are cell cancers, after a few rounds of division, the cells will be crowded and trigger this mechanism, and the cancer cells will not be able to proliferate wildly.

But Professor Connors is not sure that injecting naked mole rat genes can cure advanced cancer. What's more, if he becomes a big naked mole rat, he is not sure whether Wade can accept it.

After hesitating again and again, he decided to try to cut out the genes related to cancer suppression in sharks, elephants and naked mole rats, and splice them into Wade Wilson's body. If everything goes well, Wade will not show the characteristics of those three animals.

This is the original intention of the cross-species gene transplantation project, and the lizard man is just a by-product of this project.

The research has returned to the right track after a lot of twists and turns. Professor Connors has almost put all his energy into it, and even the analysis of the formula of the culture medium has been shelved.

If the research is successful, he will almost cure cancer, a terminal disease of humans, from the root.

Because of his experience in preparing serum countless times, Professor Connors made rapid progress. He had already prepared serum combining three genes and injected it into mice for observation.

After the lessons learned from the lizard man, he was extremely cautious, fearing that the fusion of animal genes would cause mutations in the human body.

In the first experiment, more than 40 of the 50 mice mutated, with various features of sharks, elephants and naked mole rats on their bodies. One even had seven or eight hands and feet and more than a dozen pairs of eyes, which was weird and inexplicable.

Even though Professor Connors, as a biological master, had dissected countless samples, he was also disgusted by these mutated test subjects.

After destroying the failed products, he analyzed those test subjects that had not mutated by chance, deleted the genome that might cause the body to mutate, and improved the formula of the serum.

However, the workload of this project was extremely large, and he was only one person, without any assistants to help, so the progress was slow and it would take a long time.

When Professor Connors thought of the massive amount of data stored in the computer, he couldn't help but feel a little overwhelmed. If he hadn't been injected with lizard serum, he might have been bald by now.

Suddenly someone rang the doorbell of the laboratory. Connors took a look and found that it was Broly outside, and hurriedly opened the door of the laboratory.

He was a little uneasy. The two projects Broly gave him were both stuck in a bottleneck and progressed slowly.

Broly looked around the laboratory and put the refrigerator in his hand on the ground.

"This is a sample of cancer cells in Wade's body."

Professor Connors was immediately interested when he heard that he had obtained the sample. These cancer cells cut from Wade's body can be placed in the culture medium to divide and multiply. When the formula of the serum is successfully debugged, it can be used to test whether it can effectively restrain cancer cells.

"These cancer cells are not ordinary."

Broly shook his head and described the abnormality in Wade's body during the operation.

Professor Connors was shocked. He had read a lot of information and papers about cancer in a short period of time because of his research on serum, but it was also the first time he saw such a weird cancer.

A trace of curiosity arose in his heart. He immediately opened the refrigerator, took out the frozen tumor inside, sliced ​​it, and placed it under the electron cryo-microscope stolen from the Osborne Group.

Under the microscope that can see the macromolecular structure clearly, the cancer cell samples are clearly visible.

"How is it possible that so many cancer cells are still active."

Professor Connors couldn't help but exclaimed. About 60% to 70% of the cancer cells under the microscope are still very active, constantly wriggling and devouring each other.

Cancer cells are very difficult to deal with in the human body. It can almost be said that wildfires cannot be burned out, and spring breezes will blow and regenerate. But once exposed to the external environment, they will become very fragile and difficult to survive. He wanted to cultivate cancer cells, and also wanted to proliferate the very small part of the tumor that might survive.

Broly raised his eyebrows and looked at the tumor that was cut in the refrigerator. The aura of this tumor was almost weak and difficult to detect, so he didn't know that most of the cancer cells inside were still alive all the way.

"Interesting."

A large ball of air immediately gathered in his hand, and the dazzling light almost blinded Professor Connors temporarily.

Broly threw it casually, and this extremely powerful ball of air fell into the refrigerator and merged into the cancer cell. He wanted to try and see what changes would occur if the cancer cell absorbed a large amount of air.

The large ball of air was not painful for Broly, but for the cancer cell, it was like a mouse entering a granary. They stopped devouring each other and began to swallow air frantically.

The whole tumor, which seemed to be completely dead, suddenly seemed to come alive, rapidly wriggling and proliferating. The surface of the tumor bulged with hideous blisters filled with yellow-green pus and blood, connecting with each other, and the volume expanded rapidly. In just a few minutes, the whole tumor expanded three or four times, filling the entire refrigerator.

Countless tentacles like tentacles kept swinging, and the refrigerator crackled.

Broly could even sense that the energy of the entire tumor was rising rapidly. In this short period of time, it was already almost the same as that of an ordinary person and was still getting stronger.