Chapter 809 Medicine with "Taste"

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

Although the Hua Guo researcher named Zhao Shuxuan emphasized to him that the relevant clinical experiments have only been done twice on mice, and direct application to humans may be accompanied by certain risks. However, for Johnson, this is is the only way for him to return to Earth.

If the Martian bacteria on his body cannot be resolved, he may have to stay on the Luna Palace for the rest of his life, isolated from the Earth's ecosystem, or even abandoned.

This is unacceptable for him who has a family on earth and someone waiting for him to go back.

Sitting next to the medical bed, he quietly waited for the medicine prepared by the two researchers in the nursing room. After a while, the Hua Guo researcher who brought him here brought three capsules and a small bag Water came over.

"Eat it."

After taking three capsules from Zhao Shuxuan's hand, Johnson threw them into his mouth without hesitation, then sucked on the straw that contained the water in the bag, and swallowed it in one gulp along with the water.

Sitting beside the medical bed and waiting quietly for five minutes, Johnson fidgeted and looked around, seeing that everyone in the laboratory was looking at him, so he said something embarrassingly.

"Uh, that's the end of it?"

"I don't know," Zhao Shuxuan shook his head. "We'll have to wait an hour or two to find out the details. I suggest you lie down and sleep for a while."

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

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

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

Johnson guessed: "It involves confidentiality?"

"That's not true," Professor Leslie shrugged, "It's just...only one person has developed an immune response to the bacteria so far."

Unable to understand the words in this sentence, Johnson frowned and asked, "So?"

After coughing lightly, Professor Leslie continued, "And this kind of bacteria mainly resides in the esophagus, especially the large intestine..."

Johnson's face changed instantly.

"Shet...could it be..."

"That's right, it's Xie Te...or Xie Te's extract, but I think there should still be quite a few differences."

Feeling a churning in his stomach, resisting the urge to vomit, Johnson glared at him with murderous eyes, and asked with difficulty, "Are you sure this thing... will work?"

"I'm...not sure," Professor Leslie smiled a little awkwardly, "but some things have to be tried to find out, don't they?"

Johnson still wanted to say something, but at this moment, a feeling of sleepiness hit his brain, and he stretched out his index finger and pressed it on the center of his eyebrows.

Aware of his situation, Professor Leslie and Professor Zhao Shuxuan's eyes flashed a hint of surprise at the same time.

With the last vestiges of consciousness, Johnson faintly heard the voices of the two talking.

"God... our guess is correct!"

"The antibody that can kill the X-0172 bacteria is indeed in the extract of colonist No. 3's metabolite!"

"...Let's report the success of the research."

"..."

...

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

The Jinling Institute for Advanced Study is far away on the earth.

Lu Zhou, who has been paying close attention to the progress of the experiment, immediately came to the X-0172 Bacteria Special Laboratory established not long ago after hearing the news of the success of the experiment, and asked the person in charge here, Professor Liu Zuobing, about the research situation on the Moon Palace .

"How is the situation of the two colonists now?"

"I slept very well. We tried various physical methods such as low temperature, overheating, and static electricity, but they couldn't wake them up." Pushing his glasses, Professor Liu continued, "In general, the experiment was quite successful, and it can be regarded as a verification. Our conjecture was confirmed. From the sampling of metabolites, traces of spores were observed in the metabolites of the two colonists."

Lu Zhou cheered up, and immediately asked: "That is to say, that Taiwei did produce antibodies against X-0172 bacteria in his body."

"Theoretically, it should be like this," Professor Liu nodded, but then he sighed and said, "However, the trouble now is that even if we find the antibody, it can eliminate part of the X-0172 bacteria in the colonists , but it is difficult to further kill spores by antibodies.”

Bacillus, also known as endospore, is a dormant body of bacteria and is also known as the most tenacious life form in the biological world. It has outstanding performance in heat resistance, chemical resistance and radiation resistance.

Taking Clostridium botulinum as an example, it takes 5 to 9.5 hours for its spores to be killed in boiling water. The radiation resistance of Bacillus megaterium is 36 times stronger than that of E.coli cells. Even under the direct irradiation of ultraviolet rays and high-energy rays, it can still maintain the original life form for a long time.

The free-standing spores have no obvious metabolic function and only maintain the potential germination force, so they are also called hidden life. Once the environmental conditions are suitable, spores can germinate into vegetative cells at any time.

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

Therefore, if the spores in the colonists cannot be completely killed, it will be a matter of time until the conditions are good and the ashes will resurface.

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 seriousness in the old professor's eyes, Lu Zhou could clearly feel that it might not be easy to solve this problem. Even if the world's top biomedical research and development forces are integrated, it is not easy to find a solution.

Lu Zhou: "About the spores...is there no good way?"

"If there is, we must have tried it." Professor Liu shook his head. "International experts have held meetings and discussed it several times. At present, the more reliable idea is probably intermittent sterilization, continuously activating the spores and then Kill them again. But this involves a more troublesome problem. We may be able to reduce the content of X-0172 bacteria in these colonists' bodies through repeated tossing, but it is difficult to eliminate them. "

Lu Zhou: "Like a cancer cell that has spread?"

Professor Liu: "Although it is not very appropriate, there is no big problem with such a metaphor."

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

"What about the extracts that contain antibodies? Do we have them in our laboratory?"

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

"It's here... what's wrong?"

Lu Zhou: "Can I take a copy back to study?"

Professor Liu Zuobing gave Lu Zhou a strange look, "It's possible...although I don't think it's meaningful."

It's not that he doesn't believe in Lu Zhou's strength, but he doesn't think it's meaningful to do so at all.

This is just a metabolic extract, and there is no X-0172 bacteria in it.

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

Lu Zhou smiled lightly and said.

"Whether it makes sense or not, you can only know if you try it."