Chapter 91 Longevity Virus

Not long after, all the personnel had gathered in the captain's room. Yu Yifeng showed the report to all the people who didn't know about it.

Although people's faces were different, the general reaction was calmer than he imagined. Except for a few older people, most people were surprised for a moment, but soon calmed down.

This reaction was somewhat unexpected to him. Yu Yifeng thought about it and understood.

That's right. The average age of the people on the Noah was 28 years old. They were still in their prime. The oldest scientist was only a little over 50, less than 60 years old, and was still at the peak of his career.

In this case, everyone was strong and healthy, and generally had decades to live. People rarely considered things like life span.

Extending life span was just a little fresh and curious to them. It was just a possibility and had not really been realized.

So this great thing couldn't make people jump up excitedly, and it was not even as exciting as the super excavator.

We are all young people, who would consider things like old age and death. It is too easy to live longer. Smoke less, drink less, eat less junk food, exercise more... These activities can prolong life and make people live a few more years.

However, these longevity activities are generally only remembered and done when people are older...

Well... Yu Yifeng is really a little bit amused and sad about people's reactions. When they were on Earth, those leaders and rich people invested money like crazy to study perfect hormones, wasn't it just to get a longer life?

When they were dying, they would all desperately conduct perfect hormone experiments, trying to get a last chance of good luck... Although they all failed in the end.

There is a great fear between life and death!

Now, with something that can really extend lifespan, people are only slightly excited, perhaps because they are not old enough yet...

"Everyone, I think you all know that although the Martian virus is also a carbonyl organism, its genetic structure and protein structure are completely different from those of Earth organisms. We can use the Martian virus to make up for the missing content in biology and find more scientific inspiration points."

"Now, Professor Constantine's research team has some new results. Please ask them to talk about it in detail." Yu Yifeng waved his hand and briefly introduced everyone present.

Constantine is a young professor in his early thirties who has also participated in the research of the Martian virus. His two dark circles are very large, giving people a feeling of excessive fatigue, but his eyes are bright and energetic, obviously being supported by a force.

Talking about his research results, Constantine said excitedly: "There is not just one kind of Martian virus. So far, we have discovered 3,325 different kinds of viruses."

"They are actually more complex than viruses and can survive independently, but we still habitually call them viruses..."

In Constantine's research, twelve kinds can cause disease, and the rest are not suitable for long-term survival in the human body. Their research team is tracking and observing these viruses.

"After more than 400 patients recovered, we conducted strict physical examinations on them. Strange things happened. After being infected with the Martian virus, many people's comprehensive physical scores increased by 1.6%!"

"Although this number is not large, it is completely beyond our expectations. We thought that after a serious illness, people's physical fitness would decline, but it turned out to be higher." Constantine took out a chart with various data listed on it.

Before exploring Mars, people generally have to undergo strict physical examinations, so all kinds of data are very detailed.

"There must be a reason, and we want to find the reason..."

"After three months of experiments, we finally found a virus that is beneficial to humans, called the longevity virus!"

The people below were a little restless. "Longevity virus", this name sounds very strange.

"After the longevity virus invades the cell, it can reactivate the activity of human stem cells, allowing it to divide more times! It repairs the telomeres at the end of DNA..."

Constantine brought out a whole set of scientific terms to explain it, and for fear that he was not clear, he said it again in popular sentences.

What is aging? What is the essence of aging?

For life, aging is an eternal rhythm.

Whitening hair, falling teeth, and wrinkles are visible aging, while the decline of internal organ function, slow reaction, poor memory, and weakened resistance are invisible aging.

The essence of human aging is cell decay, and cell decay is mainly caused by stem cell decay.

People can live to 100 years old or longer, but individual somatic cells often do not have such a long lifespan. For example, epithelial cells are replaced every 27-28 days, and intestinal mucosal cells are replaced every 2-3 days.

The mature somatic cells of the body will die due to aging or injury, and their replacements need to be produced at any time, and stem cells are the source of these replacements.

However, stem cell divisions also have a certain number of times, which is affected by DNA telomeres. Scientists have found that every time DNA is replicated, a DNA fragment will be lost at the end, which is the telomere.

It is like a helmet, which ensures the integrity of the DNA sequence through self-sacrifice.

But without this compensation mechanism, DNA will eventually shorten or even disappear after thousands of generations of replication, resulting in two consequences - aging and tumors. Therefore, the number of divisions of a stem cell is limited.

"The longevity virus can repair some telomeres at the ends of DNA and reactivate the activity of aging stem cells..." Professor Constantine said enthusiastically, "According to experimental data, it can increase the number of stem cell divisions by 30%-50%!"

"In other words, it can greatly increase human life expectancy. If it is well controlled, 50% is also possible!"

His voice became louder and louder, and he was obviously very proud of this discovery. "By then, the speed of human aging will be greatly slowed down, and the average life expectancy of people can reach 110-130 years old!"

"After 100 years old, humans will age significantly! There is not much difference between 20-year-olds and 50-year-olds."

This time, everyone understood, and their heartbeats beat twice. This is a visible benefit. Humans are so lucky!

Although this life-extending effect is not worth mentioning compared to perfect ingredients, it was invented by humans with their own technology and can be used by all people!

Yu Yifeng suddenly sighed, it's really unpredictable. There are such things on Mars! If the high-ranking officials and wealthy people on Earth knew this news, they would probably build a big spaceship and go to Mars...

There are many solutions to prolong life, the most powerful one is perfect element, but the people on Earth have spent so much manpower and material resources and still haven't done it. Now, a longevity virus has inexplicably done it...

Although the effect is much less, it can still prolong life for 40 to 50 years, which is already very good!